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The video and TV ratings giant Nielsen has been sold to a consortium of private equity firms, led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corp. (an affiliate of Elliott Management) and Brookfield Business Partners, in an all-cash deal that values the company at $16 billion, inclusive of debt. Nielsen had rejected an $14 billion offer from the companies just a week ago, saying it “significantly undervalued” the company, but it accepted the higher bid on Tuesday. Tuesday’s bid was for $28 per share, well above the $25.40 per share in the prior offer. “After a thorough assessment, the Board determined that this transaction represents an attractive outcome for our shareholders by providing a cash takeout at a substantial premium, while supporting Nielsen’s commitment to our clients, employees and stakeholders,” said James A. Attwood, chairperson of Nielsen’s board of directors, in a statement. “The Consortium sees the full potential of Nielsen’s leadership position in the media industry and the unique value we deliver for our clients worldwide.” Uh oh wrestlingbros..
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$16 billion for Nielsen seems reasonable for a company with such a bright future.
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>>5035314 Are we about to lose our charts again?
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might be interesting.
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>>5035314 >buying a boomer metric fed ngmi
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>>5035352 RATINGS THREADS PLUMMET
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>>5035314 >Nielsen said it would replace its current TV ratings system by 2024 with a metric that incorporates digital viewing including streaming TV as well as the current traditional audiences, a shift that could transform how TV and digital video ads are bought and sold in the future. >But as the TV industry’s top measurement firm tries to catch up with the way audiences watch now, it will require the approval of TV networks, walled-off tech giants and advertisers. Nielsen will also have to integrate its technology across different platforms and data sources to ensure that the information it reports is comparable across different screens, platforms and content types, industry executives said. >At stake is more than $60 billion that is spent on TV ads in the U.S. every year, as well as tens of billions of additional dollars for digital video and streaming ads. >Nielsen plans to introduce the new measurement product in the fourth quarter of 2022 and secure its adoption by ad sellers and buyers by the start of the fall 2024 TV season. In 2021, the firm plans to start previewing the new data alongside the existing ratings product. So a few years before we start seeing the "real" numbers that incorporate streaming.
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>>5035373 There is no way they ever pull this off. Too many fucking hands to grease. There are so many boomer TV executives that could just refuse to cooperate and share their numbers of their streaming platform.
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K. Why should I care?
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>>5035373 >India becomes the single most valuable market. Worst timeline
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>>5035373 >WWE has multiple streaming platforms numbers >AEW still relies on Playstation Vue Anonymous
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>>5035390 Not to mention that streaming providers already track the per second watch statistics of their videos. So what would they need Nielsen for? They can just sell that data directly.
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>>5035405 i do my part by using my illegal stream to watcdh both.
but in 2 years i can see both companies and others getting a larger footprint in streaming
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>>5035399 Individual audience's purchase power will always be more important than pure viewing figures.
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>>5035445 That's why wrestling shows make less in ad revenue than NHL games with a fraction of the audience numbers.
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>>5035314 >a consortium of private firms oh god no not again
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>>5035429 thanks for contributing to the death of pro wrestling
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>>5035405 hulu or whatever wont be added to the main rating number, they're just publishing them separately
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>>5035459 >WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Anonymous
>>5035465 i've probably been to more shows than you've watched pinhead
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>>5036209 Based event security chad
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>16b for estimated cable viewership in 2022 and beyond Lmaooooooooooooooooooo
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>>5036235 kek but those guys arent allowed to watch the show at wwe events, vince only wants people who paid for tickets, they have to stand with their back to the ring
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isn't nielsens a work?
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Tony finally lost it after this weeks disasterous rampage numbers and bought nielsen
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>>5036254 Nielsen do a lot more than just that bro.
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>>5035314 Ratingsbros... how are we going to keep shitposting about the console wars?
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>>5037022 I hope they cut you off from your yummy wummy numbers and you have chart withdrawals.
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only wrestling fags care about nielson ratings lmao touch grass
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>>5035352 I hope so they are for cringeworthy faggots
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>>5035314 >Evergreen Coast Capital Corp Uh oh
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>>5035314 Tony literally bought nielsen to cook the books. Can't even make this shit up anymore. Pathetic.
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>>5035324 Kek this, wtf were they thinking.
Lucas Films sold to Disney for ~5 billion for the record
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>>5036282 >vince only wants people who paid for tickets are you not aware half the crowd at wwe shows are paid seatfillers?
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>>5035352 God I hope so. We all know that won't shut up these faggots though.
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>>5038455 oh for fucks sake I live in fuckoff nowhere and they come once every century and i still overpay to go see it and this fags can't fill cheap seats
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>>5035324 Not sure if memeing but Nielson ratings are more valuable than ever given the fact that the medium is dying. Information is key.