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Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) has expanded its local currency partnership with Coastal Television's Media Group through a comprehensive multi-year agreement covering 12 markets. The partnership enhancement, effective January 2025, includes Comscore's advanced measurement capabilities such as County, Automotive, Plan Metrix, and Political segments.

The expanded collaboration will enable Coastal Television to leverage deeper audience insights and enhance advertising performance for its clients. Through Plan Metrix, marketers can plan campaigns targeting specific audience behaviors. This agreement strengthens Comscore's position as a leading provider of TV measurement and advanced audience data in the national and local TV measurement landscape.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) has appointed Jackelyn Keller as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Keller, who has been advising Comscore's leadership team since September 2024, brings 25 years of expertise in linear TV, streaming, digital and programmatic advertising. Prior to joining Comscore, she held key positions at Samsung Ads as head of market intelligence and global product strategy, and at Quantcast as global head of product marketing.

Keller's appointment aims to enhance Comscore's brand positioning and streamline messaging in today's fragmented media landscape. She has already contributed to launching initiatives like the Comscore Data Divas and Barbershop, Beauty and Local Buzz. Her experience includes roles at Discovery Communications and Turner Broadcasting, focusing on ad sales, marketing, and pricing teams.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) has expanded its multi-year partnership with Gray Media, one of the largest TV station groups in the US. The agreement positions Comscore as a key local measurement currency provider and includes additional advanced demographics and cross-platform audience insights. Starting in 2025, Gray Media will adopt Comscore Campaign Ratings (CCR) for comprehensive cross-platform measurement with in-flight monitoring.

The partnership expansion includes measurement for more TV stations, including broadcast regional sports networks. Gray Media will also utilize Comscore's Advanced Audience solutions, featuring County, Automotive, Political data, and Plan Metrix, enabling marketers to plan campaigns based on specific audience behaviors. These tools will provide advertisers with de-duplicated measurement across screens for metrics like reach, frequency, incrementality, and co-viewing.

FreeWheel has launched a new Contextual Marketplace that leverages advanced video-level insights to enhance ad targeting within streaming inventory. This initiative, informed by the latest report from the FreeWheel Viewer Experience Lab, aims to improve ad relevance and engagement. Key findings indicate that viewers are twice as engaged and have 2X higher unaided recall when ads are relevant, with a 5.2X increase in brand purchase intent.

The marketplace includes KERV.ai and Proximic by Comscore, enhancing targeting solutions for advertisers and unlocking more value for publishers. The platform allows advertisers to deliver ads in the right context, such as placing an airline commercial within holiday travel content while avoiding news about travel delays. FreeWheel's General Manager, Mark McKee, emphasized the power of contextual signals to drive increased engagement and ad recall.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) has been awarded US Patent No. 12,114,029 for its Personifying Viewership Data technology, which enables person-level TV audience measurement. The patented technology uses predictive modeling based on massive samples of passively-collected household-level data to understand individual viewership patterns of linear and connected TV, including co-viewing behaviors.

The system estimates viewer demographics like age and gender using household-level media consumption data, providing a privacy-forward approach to audience measurement. This capability has already been integrated into Comscore's digital video, cross-platform, and TV solutions, offering marketers more accurate demographic targeting insights at both national and local levels.

Comscore (SCOR) reported Q3 2024 financial results with revenue of $88.5 million, down 2.8% from Q3 2023. The company recorded a net loss of $60.6 million, primarily due to a $63.0 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge, compared to net income of $2.6 million in Q3 2023. Cross-platform revenue grew 33.5% year-over-year, while Research & Insight Solutions revenue declined 14.2%. Adjusted EBITDA was $10.1 million with an 11.5% margin. The company refined its 2024 revenue guidance to $351-355 million and maintained adjusted EBITDA margin guidance of at least 10%.

Comscore (Nasdaq: SCOR) has announced it will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2024 financial results on Tuesday, November 12th at 5:00 p.m. ET. The company will provide access to the call through a live webcast and telephone options for USA and Canada participants. A replay of the conference call will be made available via webcast on the company's investor relations website.

Proximic by Comscore, a division of Comscore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its inaugural State of Privacy in Advertising Report for 2024. The report reveals significant impacts of data privacy laws on personalized advertising:

- 56% of respondents face limitations in audience targeting in regions with data privacy laws
- 40% report challenges related to audience data availability
- 64% rely on first-party and contextual data as their primary targeting approach
- 88% anticipate moderate to significant impact on personalized advertising delivery
- 61% expect audience targeting to be most affected by privacy laws

The report also highlights industry shifts towards AI-driven strategies, reduced reliance on cookies, and increased focus on privacy-resilient advertising solutions. Proximic by Comscore offers contextually powered targeting segments and ID-free Predictive Audiences to address these challenges.

Comscore (NASDAQ:SCOR) and FreeWheel have partnered to support privacy-resilient ID-free audiences for CTV. This innovation will provide publishers with streamlined access to future-proofed audience monetization tools and enable buyers to reach targeted audiences across premium CTV content. The integration of Proximic by Comscore's data into FreeWheel's ad management platform will allow publishers to access extensive content-level categorization data, including contextual advertising capabilities.

Paramount is the first to adopt this new solution, incorporating it into their EyeQ Select solution. The partnership aims to address the industry's disruptive signal loss challenges by offering targeting audiences that scale beyond ID-based solutions. FreeWheel will surface Proximic by Comscore's full contextual suite, including IAB categories, brand safety, and suitability, enabling content-level inventory insights.