Nielsen Is Buying Visual IQ to Boost Its Marketing Effectiveness

The deal should increase ROI for the company's clients

As addressable advertising continues to expand, Nielsen is making a move to bolster its marketing effectiveness, acquiring marketing intelligence software provider Visual IQ.

By getting its hands on Visual IQ’s multitouch attribution advertising model for digital platforms—and the data and technology that fuels it—Nielsen says it will be able to increase its ability to process large data sets, and increase its clients’ ROI. Multitouch attribution models track the steps involved in a conversion and analyzes how consumers interact with media, which as Nielsen CEO Mitch Barns puts it, it’s “a fancy way of saying they measure the effectiveness of advertising on digital platforms.”

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