comScore Plans to Move Fast Following Closing

By Jon Lafayette
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With its acquisition of Rentrak completed, comScore plans to move fast with a plan to offer the TV industry comprehensive multi-platform audience measurement.

“It’s not going to be months. It’s going to be weeks,” said Serge Matta, who was CEO of comScore and now holds that post at the new company. “We’re going to move very, very fast and we’ll provide a plan for when all of this is going to happen.”

The new comScore—Rentrak is now a wholly owned subsidiary—won’t be waiting until it has all the pieces of the puzzle in place.

“We will provide it in phases and we’ll be very transparent,” Matta said in an interview withBroadcasting & Cable shortly after the deal closed.

Read more at B&C. 

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.