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The Challenge: Measuring Ads Across Many Screens
India's media landscape is rapidly expanding, with viewers engaging across traditional television, mobile devices, connected TVs, and computers. This fragmentation makes it difficult for advertisers and agencies to accurately measure how many people see their campaigns and how often across these different platforms.
How BARC | Nielsen ONE Ads Unifies Data
BARC | Nielsen ONE Ads combines BARC India's established linear TV audience measurement with Nielsen ONE Ads' digital measurement across mobile, connected TV, and computer devices. The core innovation is an advanced deduplication method that ensures viewers are counted only once, regardless of the screen used. This provides a clearer picture of true campaign reach and its added impact.
Adoption and Features: Simplifying Tracking
JioHotstar is the first premium digital content platform to embrace this new measurement framework, which was first used during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026. BARC India CEO Nakul Chopra said, "BARC | Nielsen ONE Ads is the first-of-its-kind solution in India to bring together TV measurement along with digital screens in a unified, deduplicated system." Akhil Parekh, Chief Product Officer at Nielsen, added that the collaboration "fills a real gap that advertisers have been grappling with for years."
The system offers unified reporting across four screens, advanced audience deduplication technology, and detailed campaign analytics. Advertisers can now access key metrics like average frequency, gross rating points (GRPs), and on-target performance by demographic groups, enabling better strategic decisions. Broader adoption by broadcasters is expected to further strengthen this comprehensive cross-media measurement across India's TV and streaming landscape.