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In Sydney, Australia, streaming services trade body the Video Futures Collective (VFC) has announced a deal with Copenhagen-based measurement specialist AudienceProject, to develop what it claims is the country's 'first' independent cross-media audience measurement solution.
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In Massachusetts, B2B intent data and signal-based go-to-market solutions firm Intentsify has announced an integration with data and AI infrastructure provider Clay, making the former's Buyer Intelligence - including account-level intent and persona-level signals - available on the latter's platform.
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London company Phebi has enhanced its voice tech and behavioural science offer with the addition of Phebi Real Time Response Capture: this allows interviewers doing CATI surveys on any platform to dispense with entering answers or typing up notes after completion, providing a full transcript in-place.
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In Raleigh, NC, L&E Research has appointed Stephenie Gordon as Business Development Executive. She joins from TriVoca Health where she was Vice President of Client Solutions. More

From today, 24th August, YouTube will count a video as viewed as soon as the video starts playing or a viewer starts watching a live broadcast - matching the way TikTok and Instagram already produce their counts. More

Due to holidays, and following a similar pattern to last summer, Daily Research News will not publish tomorrow (Friday) evening and will also miss one day next week, in addition to the UK public holiday on August 31st. More

In the US, the NFL has expressed concerns about Nielsen's forthcoming methodological changes, claiming they are 'overly rushed'. Nielsen says it has worked closely with clients, sports leagues and industry regulators to develop the new approaches and the majority support them. More

Shareholders of data collaboration software firm LiveRamp have overwhelmingly approved its acquisition by marcoms holding group Publicis, at a special meeting this week; but voted against related executive compensation packages. The latter vote was advisory only and the payments may still happen. More
Independent ad tech company The Trade Desk has appointed Vinny Rinaldi as Vice President of Client Strategy & Growth, reporting to COO Vivek Kundra. More
Harlow Consulting, a custom research agency based in Harrogate, Yorkshire, has appointed Mary Meredith as a Research Manager, supporting mixed-methods research and evaluation services. More
Marcoms group Stagwell has appointed former Omnicom / Annalect and WPP executive Dru Sil in the new role of Global Product Managing Director for its Stagwell Media Platform (SMP). More
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