Samsung Sells The Fix For 41% Duplication. Nobody Owns The Stop Button.
Samsung Ads sells Optimal Reach on a 41 percent duplication figure that it says can be fixed. That same 41 percent has appeared as households, impressions and dollars in three Samsung documents, and its $141 billion headline is just $9.3 billion times an assumed $15.16 return.
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- Samsung's 41 percent shows up as household overlap, repeat impressions and duplicated impressions, three different quantities.
- The $141 billion figure is $9.3 billion in duplicated time multiplied by an assumed $15.16 return per ad dollar.
- ARF DASH data: in 15 percent of TV homes the bedroom set, often a different brand, is the most-watched TV.
- Aquila published savings estimates of $50 billion and $50 million, a thousandfold gap no statement explains.
- Nielsen got four questions on September 9, confirmed receipt and had not answered by the deadline.
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