Publishers’ Google Accelerated Media Pages traffic going unrecorded by Nielsen
Audience measurement firm Nielsen has conceded that it is not measuring digital audiences of sites using Google’s AMP service despite having told publishers that it is able to do so.
Google’s Accelerated Media Pages allows publishers to deliver faster mobile page loading by hosting an AMP version of their pages with Google.
However, a number of publishers have told Mumbrella they are becoming increasingly concerned that audiences reading their content in this way are not been recorded.
This is despite Nielsen’s Australian digital content ratings handbook specifically telling publishers that it does cover AMP, along with Facebook Instant Articles which works on a similar principle. The company tells publishers its software development kit (SDK) has the capability.
Of the publishers mentioned above what % of their pages actually utilise AMP? Surely you could’ve asked that of those who you spoke with? That’ll give you an insight into how critical it is or isn’t for Nielsen to have this measurement available right now.
Nielsen Measurment should be taken with smallest grain of salt possible. The difference of tagging capabilities across all major publishers is so drastic that you are never really comparing apples with apples, even worse when you get into the video space.
And really if an agency is buying a smartly – they will buy based on a real audience (logged in/registered) freq capped by user cross platforms to manage delivery and reach. UA measurment will soon become the next UB.
Yeahbut, I run a mid-sized news website. AMP accounts for about 11% of traffic now. It’s significant.
About as accurate as a horoscope.
… not that Nielsen UA relies on tags.
And if an agency buys smartly it will be comparing metrics across multiple publishers – something that no single publisher can do. And it will be using independent data sources.
As for logged in/registered that simply does not equate to usage. Ever seen the ‘Keep Me Logged In’ check box?
And just because your server shows someone as being logged in does NOT mean that they are utilising/seeing your content. Currently I am logged into MANY things. But at this second Mumbrella has my focus while all these other applications and publishers are still merrily racking up time on their server oblivious as to whether their content is actually being consumed.
ummmmm
100% of pages are AMP enabled by any half-decent publisher.
for breaking news and/or live events, amp pages do substantial traffic
yeah.. nup.
Of course Nielsen relies on tags, the recently launched Digital Content Ratings is entirely tag dependent (the media panel method is totally bollocks).
And good analytics tags know if a tab is ‘in focus’ and active with mouse or touch actions.