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8 minute read | March 2021

Roku to Acquire Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising Business, Accelerating Roku’s Launch of Dynamic Ad Insertion for TV Programmers and Marketers Nielsen and Roku will Expand Traditional TV and TV Streaming Coverage Across Roku’s Platform to Help Standardize Cross-Media Measurement

San Jose, Calif., and New York, NY — March 1, 2021 — Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) and Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) today announced a strategic alliance between the two companies that will help shape the future of media measurement and TV advertising in a streaming-first market. Roku has entered into an agreement to acquire Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising (AVA) business, which includes Nielsen’s video automatic content recognition (ACR) and dynamic ad insertion (DAI) technologies. The acquisition will accelerate Roku’s launch of an end-to-end DAI solution with TV programmers. In addition, Nielsen and Roku will enter into a strategic partnership to integrate complementary Nielsen ad and content measurement products into the Roku platform and further advance Nielsen ONE, the company’s cross-media measurement solution.  

“Tens of billions of dollars continue to be spent annually on traditional TV advertising,” said Louqman Parampath, VP of Product Management at Roku. “Combining Nielsen’s AVA technology with Roku’s innovative ad tech and scale will enable us to deliver the benefits of TV streaming advertising to traditional TV. Roku will bring the promise of DAI to the market for the first time ever at scale — providing better targeting and measurement for advertisers, creating easy integration and additional revenue opportunities for programmers’ ad sales teams, and improving the TV experience for viewers. We’re also excited to become a key strategic partner for Nielsen in their new cross-media measurement products, and jointly drive towards greater transparency and accuracy in TV streaming measurement.” 

This announcement builds on years of close collaboration between Roku and Nielsen. The two companies will enter into a long-term commercial agreement to leverage Total Ad Ratings (TAR) on the Roku platform. Specifically, Roku’s media sales and ad-buying platform, OneView, will natively integrate Nielsen “always on” 数字广告评级 (DAR) for advertisers. Roku will also enable publishers to implement Nielsen 数字内容评级 (DCR). 

"尼尔森受众测量部总经理斯科特-布朗(Scott N. Brown)表示:"对Roku设备上的广告和内容进行测量将加速实现单一、去重复的跨媒体货币。"尼尔森受众测量部总经理斯科特-布朗(Scott N Brown)表示:"随着Roku将动态广告投放的强大功能带入各种形式的电视,我们很高兴能够通过将智能电视作为一种货币进行测量,帮助实现可寻址市场的货币化,而尼尔森能够大规模地实现这一点。

与 Roku 的合作将大幅扩大智能电视和其他设备的覆盖范围,使尼尔森能够帮助媒体卖方和买方测量可寻址广告并更好地实现货币化。 

该交易预计将于 2021 年第二季度完成,但需满足惯例成交条件。交易完成后,Roku 将迎来 Nielsen AVA 的员工,并拥有大量的 ACR 和 DAI 基础专利组合。Roku TV 型号是 2020 年美国销量第一的电视操作系统,目前已包含 ACR,预计不久将包含 DAI。此外,Roku 还希望随着时间的推移将 DAI 扩展到其他电视 OEM。

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About Roku, Inc. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and TV-related audio devices are available in the U.S. and in select countries through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with service operators. Roku TV™ models are available in the U.S. and in select countries through licensing arrangements with TV brands. Roku is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. U.S.A. This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us on the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements include but are not limited to the benefits of the pending acquisition of Nielsen’s AVA business by Roku, the anticipated timing of the closing of the acquisition, the benefits and features of future product or service offerings resulting from the acquisition, entry into the strategic partnership between Roku and Nielsen, the benefits of the strategic partnership between Roku and Nielsen, including the offering of TAR, DAR and DCR on Roku’s platform, and the expansion of DAI to other TV OEMs. Factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those in any forward-looking statement include: the risk that the transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all; the risk that the parties will not enter into the strategic partnership; the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the proposed acquisition and the proposed strategic partnership, including the possibility that the expected benefits from either the proposed acquisition or the proposed strategic partnership will not be realized; the impact of the acquisition on the AVA business; our ability to retain key AVA personnel; our effectiveness in integrating the AVA business and operations with our business; the effectiveness of the strategic partnership between Roku and Nielsen; our ability to realize our broader strategic and operating objectives; the effect of the announcement of the acquisition and the strategic partnership on Roku’s and Nielsen’s respective businesses; and the effects of any litigation or other proceedings to which we are or may become a party. Further information on these and other risks and uncertainties are included in the reports Roku, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on Roku’s website and are available from Roku without charge. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Roku and the Roku logo are registered trademarks and Roku TV is a trademark of Roku, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this press release are the property of their respective holders.

联系方式

Roku

For media: Kim Sampson 

ksampson@roku.com

Roku

For investor relations: Conrad Grodd 

cgrodd@roku.com

尼尔森

供媒体使用:Sunok Pak

sunok.pak@nielsen.com

尼尔森

供媒体使用:戈尔基-德洛斯-桑托斯

gorki.delossantos@nielsen.com

尼尔森

投资者关系部投资者关系: Amy Glynn

amy.glynn@nielsen.com