Visible Measures Partners with MySpace for Internet Video Measurement
14 Abril 2009 - 6:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Agreement to Provide MySpace with Critical Internet Video
Performance Metrics BOSTON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Visible
Measures, the independent third-party measurement firm for Internet
video publishers, advertisers, and social marketers, today
announced that it has entered into a comprehensive agreement to
become the online video measurement platform of record for MySpace,
the world's premiere social portal. By collecting detailed audience
behavior data on each of the several hundred million video streams
it serves every month, Visible Measures will give MySpace the
ability to provide its advertising clients and content providers
with best-in-class visibility into campaign performance and content
effectiveness. As part of this agreement, MySpace will deploy
Visible Measures' patented Internet video metrics platform and
Visible Measures will be named as MySpace's official provider of
digital video measurement and metrics. "MySpace is a global leader
and a premiere video-sharing destination that is relied upon by
many leading brand advertisers," said Brian Shin, founder and CEO
of Visible Measures. "As we look to help MySpace capitalize on
their unique value proposition, we are excited to expand our
relationship with them and enable their content providers and
advertisers to be even more successful on MySpace." "Video is
essential to the MySpace experience and it is critical to know how
our audience is consuming our video content," said Jason Kirk, Vice
President of Video and Entertainment at MySpace. "With Visible
Measures, we can better help our brand advertiser clients and
content partners understand and improve the ROI of video content
and video advertising on our site. We believe that by providing our
clients with market-leading, trusted video performance metrics, our
ad sales teams can quantitatively demonstrate the effectiveness of
video campaigns on MySpace." Visible Measures provides major brand
advertisers and their agencies with an integrated view across all
campaign components, including syndicated, social, and paid video
placements. With hundreds of millions of videos streamed each
month, MySpace is one of the Internet's top sources of video
content, aggregating the best elements of original, licensed and
user-generated video. The scope of the agreement covers the use of
Visible Measures technology across the MySpace platform, benefiting
MySpace staff, content providers and brand advertiser clients and
their agencies. Additionally, Visible Measures and MySpace have
agreed to collaborate on co-marketing, promotional and business
development activities designed to communicate the effectiveness of
digital video as an advertising medium. About MySpace MySpace is
the world's leading social portal for connecting people, content,
and culture. MySpace empowers its global community to experience
the Internet through a social lens by integrating personal
profiles, photo sharing, professional and viral videos, blogs,
mobile, instant messaging, and the world's largest music community.
MySpace is the highest trafficked website in the United States and
includes an international network of more than 30 local community
sites throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and
Australia. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corporation.
(NYSE: NWS; NWS.A)(ASX: NWS; NWSLV). About Visible Measures Visible
Measures is the independent third-party measurement firm for
Internet video publishers, advertisers, and social marketers. The
company's patented approach has been designed from the ground up to
meet the unique challenges of measuring digital video reach and
engagement. Visible Measures provides its customers and partners
with unprecedented visibility into their online video audiences and
how they engage with both content assets and advertising
placements. Visible Measures is a member of the Interactive
Advertising Bureau's (IAB) Digital Video Committee and the
Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). To learn more about Visible
Measures, please visit http://www.visiblemeasures.com/. DATASOURCE:
Visible Measures Corp. CONTACT: Matt Fiorentino of Visible
Measures, +1-617-482-0222, ; or Amy Walgenbach of MySpace,
+1-415-293-9181, Web Site: http://www.visiblemeasures.com/
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