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Friday, July 18, 2014

MRC Gives The Go-Ahead For Ad Impression Metric Change

By Ismail Abraham


Advertising online often goes through significant changes from time to time depending upon the needs of advertisers, and the needs of the public. Whether you are looking at video ads, or traditional ones that use graphics and text, the way that you view them is about to change. It is very common for people to watch videos, or go to websites with information that they need, and see these types of advertisements presented.



Essentially, MRC has decided that ad metrics, specifically the impression metric, needs to change. Innovations Task Force in collaboration with MRC is looking at cross industry input as a result of substantial research in this field. They are changing the guidelines that have been in place for many years in regard to what an impression actually means.

They are requiring 50% of all of the pixels that are displayed on the Internet browser to be seen for a new minimum amount of time in order to be counted. This is about one second for ads that are displayed, and for video ads, this is doubled at 2 seconds. This is a more reliable assessment of these types of ads and their impact on the public that sees them.

A PSA was launched via IAB to educate the public and companies worldwide. This information may be well-received, or not, but its intention is to simply provide a better metric for measuring ads today. At one point a few months ago, the public was able to comment on these changes during a one-month period of time. Hopefully these changes will go into effect and positively influence advertising for both companies and people alike.

They believe that it will improve the digital landscape of online advertising when using ads and videos. The discrepancies that have been bantered about for many years are now set to be reconciled. These standardized measurements in regard to impression counts are going to change dramatically.

Now that you have a basic understanding of what MRC has proposed and done, you might want to chime in on how this will affect the way you surf the web, or your business for advertising. Examples of these changes are on the Internet as presented by IAB and MRC for the public to view and consider today.




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