Rapid Response: The truth about what we watch, with Nielsen’s David Kenny
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
How do you respond when your own users resist your data? That question is top-of-mind for Nielsen CEO David Kenny. For decades, Nielsen has measured ratings and demographics across TV and media – the ultimate designator of success and failure. But as industry norms shift to streaming, Kenny has had to revamp processes and expectations, absorbing heat from traditional customers. As he notes, nostalgia is the opposite of optimism – it assumes that a known past is better than an unknown future. And for Kenny, he’s choosing optimism.
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| 1:02.9 | It's an interesting year for everybody who's in media. The industry started to say |
| 1:07.0 | there could be something wrong. A accreditation does its job and they said we should |
| 1:10.9 | suspend accreditation until you get it fixed. So now we're going about fixing it. |
| 1:16.5 | Broadcast is less than half of viewing. The majority of viewing is streaming now. |
| 1:21.0 | The way we best serve them is to tell them the truth. Sometimes people don't like the truth. |
| 1:28.0 | You can rank studios, networks, platforms by how inclusive they are. The more forward thinkers |
| 1:35.9 | are using this to figure out just how broad of an appeal an inclusive cast would have. |
| 1:43.5 | We wrote in the Mika's brief. We went to the Supreme Court. We took out ads. I wrote an |
| 1:47.6 | op-ed in the New York Times to be sure that people understood what was at stake when truth is |
| 1:54.6 | challenged. I, as the CEO of Nielsen, have to speak up about it. |
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