The audience measurement specialist Comscore has announced three new major investors, including the U.S. cable operator Charter Communications.

Comscore has partnered with Samba TV to harness ACR-based viewing insights from Smart TVs to demonstrate ad exposure and match that against business outcomes like purchase behaviour.

The report highlights some significant reach differences between different markets.

The themes for Videoscape Europe – the strategy thought-leadership event for broadcaster digital, direct-to-consumer, SVOD, AVOD and virtual Pay TV – have been revealed.

Senior television executives from ITV, Channel 4, Roku, Discovery and Pubmatic tell John Moulding about their strategies to limit damage and embrace innovation.

Japan’s audience measurement body for TV has launched a collaborative platform which measures broadcaster online viewing data at census level, underpinning trading of online inventory across all major commercial broadcasters.

NBCUniversal and Sky, both now owned by Comcast, are unifying their advanced advertising capabilities under the AdSmart brand in what is the first joint advertising initiative since Comcast acquired Sky.

Future of Brands Sydney provoked a frank debate about whether the agency model is broken. The best agencies may be clean but are still impacted by the transparency sins of others.

The drinks giant has a team of experts to help brand managers make the most of media buying and creative agencies. This is not in-housing, but upskilling, and partners should welcome it, the company told Future of Brands Sydney.

Research by the beauty products giant shows that in-store experiences have a bigger influence on customer journeys than any media – so it has updated them with state-of-the-art tech.