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    <updated>2009-06-29T04:14:50-07:00</updated>
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        <title>Connecting the Marketplace - Announcing Quantcast Media Program</title>
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        <published>2009-06-29T04:14:50-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-06-29T04:17:35-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Connecting the Marketplace - Announcing Quantcast Media Program</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
        </author>
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Ad Age" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="addressable advertising" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="custom segmentation" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="data insights" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Ed Montes" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Havas Digital" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="marketers" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="NBC" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Peter Naylor" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Quantcast" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Quantcast Media Program" />
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/publisher/Publisher+Program+Overview" target="_blank">Publishers</a> have long been using Quantcast to accurately measure and describe their audiences. More recently, <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/marketer/Quantcast+Marketer+Overview" target="_blank">Marketers</a> have gained access to rich insights regarding their valuable consumer targets. </p><p>Today we launched <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/Media+Program" target="_blank">Quantcast Media Program</a>
to connect Marketers and Publishers using consistent, actionable and
accurate data applied at the impression level. A first for the
industry. </p><p>Now, Marketers can access audiences of millions who
look like their most desirable consumer - in a uniform way, at scale,
across the industry's leading online publishers. </p><p>Quantcast
Media Program provides advertisers with the first scalable way to
define target audiences via their own data insights and apply this
custom segmentation consistently throughout the buying process.
Publishers are now able to provide improved inventory packaging and
expand the range of advertisers they can effectively serve.</p><p><a href="http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=137617" target="_blank">See what AdAge had to say.</a></p><p>And what leading buyers and sellers think:</p><p>"Advertisers
ultimately want to deliver the right message to the right audience, and
this system allows us to provide an even greater level of granularity
and targeting capability across our broad range of quality content,"
said Peter Naylor, Senior Vice President, Digital Sales, NBC Universal.
"We're pleased to be working with Quantcast to help add that additional
insight and value for our clients."</p><p>"While the future of
advertising is addressable, Quantcast takes this concept one step
further by giving the advertiser control over defining their own
consumer segments and consistently applying those definitions across
media outlets," says Ed Montes, EVP and Managing Director, Havas
Digital. "By defining audience segments based off our own unique
consumer engagements, we are able to obtain a much clearer view of our
consumer and to have confidence that our messages are reaching the
right audiences."</p><p>Learn more about <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/marketer/Buy+Your+Lookalikes" target="_blank">Quantcast Media Program</a> today!</p></div>
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        <title>TiVo and Quantcast Bring Marketers Cross-Platform Audience Analysis</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68402853</id>
        <published>2009-06-23T06:32:01-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-06-23T06:32:01-07:00</updated>
        <summary>TiVo and Quantcast Bring Marketers Cross-Platform Audience Analysis</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="News" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="advertising effectiveness" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="real-time audiences" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="television viewership" />
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef0115714789cd970b-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Tivo-logo" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d85f453ef0115714789cd970b " src="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef0115714789cd970b-800wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 91px; height: 100px;" title="Tivo-logo" /></a> Advertisers and media companies are constantly searching for better ways to evaluate advertising effectiveness and media consumption across platforms. Today, we announced our partnership with TiVo to bring the advertising marketplace an innovative TV and Internet audience reporting solution to provide cross-platform insights on an unprecedented scale. This new solution is the most comprehensive cross-platform media analysis solution available for correlating television viewership and online activity.</p><p>The TiVo/Quantcast partnership marries television viewership data from TiVo's 35,000 household-strong opt-in Power||Watch™ rating panel and directly-measured data from Quantcast's innovative direct measurement offering. The unique approach will deliver unprecedented insights on the overlap that exists between TV and online audiences and the effectiveness of TV advertising at driving specific downstream online actions (and vice-versa).</p><p>At Quantcast, we are focused on helping advertisers and media companies improve their understanding of real-time audiences, so that addressable advertising solutions can evolve, and this new partnership is a critical part of that effort.  </p><p>You can find more details on the offering at the <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/marketer/TiVo" target="_blank">TV/Online Advertising Effectiveness</a> overview and to inquire about using the service <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/Contact+Us" target="_blank">reach out to us directly</a>.</p></div>
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    <entry>
        <title>Quantcast @ Internet Week</title>
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        <published>2009-05-31T15:15:46-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-05-31T15:18:37-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Quantcast @ Internet Week</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="BlueKai" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="ContextWeb" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Digital Media Summit" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Internet Week" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Konrad Feldman" />
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef011570b42501970b-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Logo_2" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d85f453ef011570b42501970b " src="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef011570b42501970b-800wi" style="margin: 11px; width: 149px; height: 71px;" title="Logo_2" /></a> Next week on Tuesday, June 2nd, Quantcast CEO, Konrad Feldman will
speak at the Digital Media Summit as part of <a href="http://www.internetweekny.com" target="_blank">Internet Week</a>. The conference, organized by GCA Savvian,
will bring together top leaders to discuss sell-side topics of the
digital media industry. The panel will be moderated by Randall
Rothenberg, CEO of the IAB, and will also include BlueKai, ContextWeb
and Media6degrees. Internet Week New York is a week-long festival of
events saluting New York's thriving Internet industry and the many
talented companies, organizations, and innovators creating the future
of online media. It is presented by IADAS &amp; The Mayor's Office of
Film, Theater, and Broadcasting.</span></font></p>

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    <entry>
        <title>Quantcast Launches New Tools for Marketers, Enables Enhanced Customer Segmentation</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/quantcast/~3/a7NT1fSy-zw/quantcast-launches-new-tools-for-marketers-enables-enhanced-customer-segmentation.html" />
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-65391243</id>
        <published>2009-04-13T05:00:00-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-04-13T05:12:26-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Quantcast Launches New Tools for Marketers, Enables Enhanced Customer Segmentation</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
        </author>
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="agencies" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="brand advertising" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Razorfish" />
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&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef01156f2069ba970c-pi" style="float: right;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Marketer" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d85f453ef01156f2069ba970c " src="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef01156f2069ba970c-800wi" style="width: 251px; height: 359px;" title="Marketer" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Today, we launched &lt;a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/marketer/Quantcast+Marketer"&gt;Quantcast Marketer&lt;/a&gt; - a free service we've had in closed beta for the past 6 months. It's a significant addition to our product offering, and provides marketers - for the first time ever - the ability to easily obtain valuable demographic and interest-based insights about their customers as they are exposed to advertising and/or interact with content or functionality on brand sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, Quantcast Marketer enables these proprietary insights to be used to identify where larger groups of similar consumers can be found across the Web - a significant improvement over the widely used "retargeting" tactic, which limits a marketer's ability to reach only those customers who have actually visited a brand site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Premier agencies (Razorfish, Neo@Ogilvy) and marketers (Lenovo, Kia, Scottrade and Virgin America) joined over 40 participants in the Quantcast beta program, representing product categories from CPG, Financial Services, Travel, Automotive, Technology, and Education. You can explore case studies &lt;a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/marketer/Kia+Case+Study"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are a marketer or agency, you can begin using Quantcast Marketer today by completing this &lt;a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/marketer/Quantcast+Marketer+Signup"&gt;form&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you to everyone who participated in Quantcast Marketer's beta program. We look forward to receiving continued input now that it is available publicly.&lt;/p&gt;

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        <title>Another Quarter, Another Milestone</title>
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        <published>2009-03-27T16:30:55-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-27T16:31:56-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Another Quarter, Another Milestone</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
        </author>
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="measurement tags" />
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has hit another milestone surpassing 6 billion impressions in a single day for
the first time on March 26&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 2009.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That's over 164 billion impressions in the proceeding
30 days, and all of that with the industry's &lt;a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/publisher/Pixel+Performance"&gt;fastest measurement tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A big thanks to all of our Quantified Publishers!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef01156e789102970c-pi" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="-1" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d85f453ef01156e789102970c image-full " src="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef01156e789102970c-800wi" title="-1" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Pixel performance that beats Nielsen, comScore, Omniture and even Google</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/quantcast/~3/MF6QND25s8Y/pixel-performance-that-beats-nielsen-comscore-omniture-and-even-google.html" />
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64419625</id>
        <published>2009-03-20T12:27:56-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-20T12:28:40-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Pixel performance that beats Nielsen, comScore, Omniture and even Google</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
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        <title>"Why care about website measurement?" Quantcast featured in Technology Review this month</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64209877</id>
        <published>2009-03-16T07:00:45-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-16T07:01:26-07:00</updated>
        <summary>"Why care about website measurement?" Quantcast featured in Technology Review this month</summary>
        <author>
            <name>Quantcast</name>
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="audience measurement" />
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        <published>2009-03-13T11:17:51-07:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-13T11:19:05-07:00</updated>
        <summary>From outdated panel based measurement to understanding participation on Twitter: Our chat with Robert Scoble</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A couple weeks ago, we had a visit from noted Silicon Valley blogger <a href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank">Robert Scoble</a>, who came in to chat with our CEO, Konrad Feldman. The result was a couple great and <a href="http://www.iterasi.net/openviewer.aspx?sqrlitid=ldipaqbd70suw-gmhbwneg" target="_blank">in depth videos on our approach</a>, and insight on why we're able to get Mr. Scoble's praise as his "<a href="http://www.iterasi.net/openviewer.aspx?sqrlitid=ldipaqbd70suw-gmhbwneg" target="_blank">favorite measurement tool</a>." The two interviews cover a lot of ground – from why our approach is a dramatic departure from measurement systems of the past, to the future of digital marketing and why we are so focused on making digital media easier for marketers to work with. The interview even gets into how Twitter and other social media sites can, and should be measured in the future. The conversation is a great watch for anyone interested in the future of digital measurement and marketing – have a look and let us know what you think.</p>

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        <published>2009-03-05T14:00:20-08:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-10T15:25:47-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Introducing Quantcast Addressable Segments</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Today, Quantcast launched a transformative feature to our Quantified Publisher profiles – <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/publisher/Quantcast+Segments">Quantcast Addressable Segments</a>. Conceived to enable publishers and advertisers to transact based on actionable audience data, Quantcast Addressable Segments provide a transparent understanding of audience segments that can actually be purchased, delivered and validated.</p><p><a href="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef011168d09b5f970c-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Segments_slider" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d85f453ef011168d09b5f970c " src="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef011168d09b5f970c-800wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" title="Segments_slider" /></a>
 Quantcast Addressable Segments are currently available for the 1,000 largest Quantified Publishers (based on monthly audience size). As with other profile data sets, publishers can enable their Quantcast Addressable Segments in their account settings for public (the default setting) or for private view. They can also permission access to specific Quantcast users who request access to data that is not available for full public view.</p><p>Quantcast Addressable Segments provide you with the ability to understand actionable audience data for key segments that brand advertisers seek – based on age, gender, income, ethnicity and education. A core feature of Quantcast Addressable Segments is the "Adjust Segment" module, which allows users to customize audience composition and coverage levels. Moving the slider to the left increases the audience composition of your segment, but reduces the coverage (high composition settings restrict a segment to the audience with the highest conformity to the desired target definition). Even when set to the highest setting (furthest left), a Quantcast Addressable Segment's composition will rarely equal 100%, given the impact of things such as cookie deletion and multiple people using the same computer. Our models continually improve due to the rapid adoption by publishers delivering ever-increasing volumes of census-level data into our service.</p><p>Once you define an audience, you will see a new profile for the property you are evaluating, highlighted by a blue header. The profile that is generated represents the actual audience coverage and composition for the particular Quantcast Addressable Segment you have defined, and represents an actionable audience that could be purchased in market.</p><p><a href="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef0112794665fe28a4-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Newhuff" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d85f453ef0112794665fe28a4 image-full" src="http://blog.quantcast.com/.a/6a00d8341d85f453ef0112794665fe28a4-800wi" title="Newhuff" /></a>
 We welcome, and look forward to your feedback, which can be submitted at <a href="mailto:publisher@quantcast.com">publisher@quantcast.com</a>. To learn more about Quantcast Addressable Segments, visit our <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/publisher/Quantcast+Segments">overview and FAQ</a>.</p>

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        <title>100,000 events per second!</title>
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        <published>2009-02-24T14:58:22-08:00</published>
        <updated>2009-02-25T06:09:11-08:00</updated>
        <summary>100,000 events per second!</summary>
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