Nielsen prepares for agent-first media world
Mumbai: Nielsen is preparing for an "agent-first" media environment where personal AI agents could increasingly decide what content and advertising users see, creating a new challenge for media measurement, its CTO Anil Goel told ET.As AI accelerates content creation and fragments audiences across platforms, devices and formats, Nielsen is preparing for a future where distinguishing human viewing from machine-driven content selection becomes increasingly important."How do we measure in that agent-first world, and how do we differentiate between what's viewable by humans versus agents is going to become a very interesting challenge that we are gearing up for," Goel said.AI is already accelerating content creation, with studio-quality videos that once took days or weeks now being produced in minutes or hours, he said. The resulting proliferation of content will make it harder to measure increasingly fragmented audiences.Nielsen is combining its panels with first- ...