Press Releases
Sandra Sims-Williams Appointed Nielsen’s Chief Diversity Officer
Sandra Sims-Williams has been appointed Chief Diversity Officer for Nielsen. She will take over from CEO David Kenny, who has held the CDO title in addition to CEO, since February 2019. She will continue to lead Nielsen’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) team, working to develop a more...
Nielsen Announces Completion of Sale Of Global Connect Business to Advent International
Nielsen Holdings plc announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of NielsenIQ to affiliates of Advent International, in partnership with James “Jim” Peck. NielsenIQ is Nielsen’s former Global Connect business.
Nielsen Enables Brands to Maximize ROI Amid Fast-Changing Sports Sponsorship Market
Nielsen unveils new scoring metrics and insights enabling forward-thinking brands to compare the impact of their sponsorship activities directly to other marketing, promotion and advertising initiatives on an equivalent basis.
Cross-Media Currency Becomes Reality with Nielsen ONE
Today, Nielsen announced its plans to launch a single, cross-media solution to drive more comparable and comprehensive metrics across platforms. Nielsen’s transformative cross-media solution, called Nielsen ONE, will evolve the current metrics that underpin the more than $100 billion video...
Launching Nielsen Compass: A world leading and powerful campaign outcomes database
Advertisers, agencies and publishers to leverage insights from world leading, outcome measurement dataset to make data-driven decisions, optimize budgets and predict sales ROI
Nielsen Makes Senior Appointments, Further Builds Out Media Management Team
Sean Cohan, a media industry and A+E veteran, joins the company as Chief Growth Officer and President, International; Peter Bradbury has been promoted to Chief Commercial Officer, U.S. and Karthik Rao has been named Chief Operating Officer, Nielsen Global Media.
Nielsen Builds Out Management Teams With Two Strategic Hires
David Rawlinson, President of the Global Online Business at Grainger, will become the Chief Executive Officer of Nielsen's Global Connect business. Linda Zukauckas will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Both will join effective Feb. 3, 2020.