February 6th, 2013

Layoffs And A Shut-Down For NM Incite, The Nielsen-McKinsey Venture That Works With Twitter On Social TV Ratings [Updated]

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Here’s a surprise follow-up to the news this week of Twitter’s acquisition of a social media analytics firm Bluefin Labs. NM Incite – a social analytics JV between Nielsen and McKinsey that forms part of Nielsen’s Twitter TV Rating service – has started to lay off employees, and we’ve even heard that NM Incite will be shut down altogether by the end of this month. → Read More

November 12th, 2012

Nielsen’s NM Incite Acquires SocialGuide To Measure The Impact Of Social TV

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NM Incite, a social media analytics and research joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey, just announced that it has acquired New York-based social TV startup SocialGuide.

SocialGuide’s tools supposedly capture social media data for more than 30,000 TV programs on 232 US TV channels in English and Spanish. In the press release announcing the acquisition, Nielsen says social TV is becoming an… → Read More