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Nielsen is a lunar impact crater on the Oceanus Procellarum. It is located north-east of Montes Agricola on the western hemisphere of the Moon. To the east-southeast is the crater Wollaston.
Nielsen is a bowl-shaped formation that lies astride a small ridge that runs north-northwestwards towards the Mons Rümker. The latter is an unusual raised formation of lunar domes.
The crater is named jointly after the Danish astronomer Axel Nielsen (1902-1970) and the Danish–American physi...

YuMe Reports Supports Cross-Platform Video Advertising Effectiveness

There have been several reports talking about increased effectiveness of ad campaigns when they go cross platform. Some have included TV, print and other media as well as online. As Daisy Whitney mentioned yesterday, YuMe and Nielsen teamed up on a new whitepaper, Dual-Platform Campaigns: ...

How To Integrate Online Video Ads And TV Ads

What do you get when you combine a $500,000 online video buy with a $2.6 million TV campaign? A 14% percent boost in reach, an 18% jump in frequency and an 11% reduction in the cost of the impressions. Or so says YuMe, the online ...

Nielsen's Top Online Video Destinations & Web Brands Of 2011

A lot changed in 2011. Of course... a lot stayed the same too. Nielsen's year end numbers chart everything from the top web brands to the top social networks and the top online video destinations. And looking over the lists, there's an awful lot of ...

Three New Media & Video Predictions For 2012

In many ways, 2011 was the year of the tablet, while social TV and online video partnerships enjoyed a robust twelve months as well. Looking ahead to 2012, keep an eye out for standards in tablet measurement, advanced online video deals in measurement, and an ...

Nielsen Study Shows Video Streaming On Gaming Consoles Increased In 2011

This is absolutely no surprise whatsoever, but Nielsen measured the video streaming habits of game console users and came up with data that is pretty much expected: more video was watched on gaming consoles this year than ever before.  I think what is a bit ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The 'Even More YouTube News' Edition

Just over a week ago, YouTube completely and radically changed their layout and overall site design. But if you thought the big changes and announcements were done for a while, you were wrong, because YouTube spent this week pushing out several more changes like a ...

Nielsen Online Video Metrics Will Measure Ratings For Advertisers With VideoHub Deal

We all knew this would have to happen sooner or later.  With online video revenue tripling this year, and YouTube looking to jump from hundreds of thousands of advertisers to millions, online video advertising is about to hit a mesmerizing level.  Now, advertisers who were ...

CBS Live Stream of LSU-Alabama Game Breaks College Football Record

As expected, CBS saw the college football record broken for an online/mobile audience during Saturday's LSU-Alabama showdown.  Over 200,000 watched the game via the website and CBS Sports Mobile, which considering that the network was seeing numbers "hovering just under six figures" means they more ...

Can Social Media Save TV Shows - Social TV & The New Media Minute

Network executives are already canceling new fall shows like ABC's Charlie's Angels and NBC's The Playboy Club, raising the question of what role social media plays in the success of a TV show. The New Media Minute did some digging to see if these shows ...

Online Video Measurement Services & Web Publishers Refining Tools To Grow Ad Dollars

Measurement services and Web publishers are refining their tools to help grow online video ad dollars. Nielsen just rolled out ratings points for online programming, rolling up online impressions into a GRP measurement, while Web publishers like blip.tv are devising new ad strategies for online ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Business Video Edition

It's a crazy, fast-paced world. At least... it is for everyone that I know. We have work, family obligations, errands, emails, church, grocery shopping, little league, and... well, you get the idea. Everyone's busy. And when that happens, it can be easy for a piece ...

Women, African Americans, & Older Americans Watch The Most Video

Nielsen has published the results of a study into the demographic breakdowns of video viewers. The study covers traditional television, time-shifted TV, DVR playback, online video, and mobile video. So basically... it covers all kinds of video. The aim? To break down the viewing habits ...

More Netflix Users Watch On Gaming Consoles, Hulu Users On Computers

Netflix and Hulu are often compared to one another, because they both offer streaming television and movie content. But their users are actually quite different. In fact, Nielsen said that after breaking down Hulu and Netflix users and behaviors, they found a massive disparity in what ...

Cost-Per-View Gains Traction, But Begs The Question: What is a Video View?

SpotXchange, our friends with Otto the auto-optimizer, are expanding their offerings once again. This time they've gotten on the cost-per-view bandwagon and are launching the new format with a bit of hoopla. My major concern is, how can the industry launch a 'cost-per-view' ad format...when much ...

May 2011 Nielsen vs. ComScore Online Video Numbers

It's time once again to take a look at the previous month's online video viewing numbers and statistics. This time, I waited until I got them from both the two major statistics firms, comScore and Nielsen, before writing anything up. It gives a clearer picture ...