Connected TV Marketing Association @CTVMA

                                                                                             Cannes Lion Creatives Last year, more Cannes Lions Awards entries than ever used AI. Some 7.3% of all 2023 entries mentioned AI in their synopses compared with 3.7% in 2022. Lion-winning work showed how AI can enable human connection. For instance, Creative Commerce Lions Grand Prix winner, HungerStation’s ‘The Subconscious Order’, by Wunderman Thompson, Riyadh, used creative AI in a delivery app. CTV Ad Operations By delivering hyper-relevant ads to each viewer that speak to their needs in the moment, contextual CTV ad campaigns empower marketers to capture far greater engagement and ROI, and—most importantly—to connect brands with customers on a more meaningful level.  Generative AI is able to dynamically produce unlimited variations of an original ad campaign, and to generate new content instantly based on real-time factors. Agency Client Creative Marketers leveraging generative AI and conte

                                                                                 Connected TV Apps-based Viewing Global ad spend is on course pass $1 trillion ($788.6 billion) for the first time in 2024, following the growth of 4.4 per cent this year and a further 8.2 per cent in 2024. R etail media and connected TV (CTV) a fifth of all spend, will drive growth into 2024 – are poised to see significant investment from brands over the coming 18 months. With t he rise of CTV, we are seeing once again the value advertisers place in leveraging first party data to target the right message to the right person at the right time. Audience Adoption This transition toward CTV points to a broader shift in consumer behavior, as traditional TV consumption patterns are disrupted by the rise of on-demand content and streaming services.  The value chain of smart TV home screen app prominence is likely to result in the popularity order ranking based on usage as global app-based TV viewing surpasses set

                                                                                                   Ad Podding OpenRTB 2.6 Since our adoption of OpenRTB 2.6 updates we explore what these mean for providers on both the buy and sell sides of CTV, to help improve how connected TV inventory is transacted will be instrumental in scaling CTVs bright future.  When planning your next CTV campaign, it's worth asking your partners whether their publishers have plans to implement these changes. Early Adoption Bringing elements of traditional TV to programmatic media buying and selling, ad pods bridge the gap between disparate viewing environments and help to deliver optimal ad experiences for CTV viewers. The consensus is to keep loads to a minimum for higher premiums on attention with averages of 5 minutes per hour against a linear threshold of 7 minutes rates vary. Dynamic Ad Pods Dynamic Pod bidding signals are an important feature of the oRTB 2.6 spec that allow key information about the p

  Ad Loads for Optimising In-Stream and Out-Stream Video Ads In September, we published the IAB Tech Lab guidelines for digital video and connected TV ad formats, and these guidelines introduced a new distinguishing characteristic that separates in-stream and out-stream video ads.  The coming year promises significant change and equally significant growth for advertising-based streaming services. Programmatic CTV advertising is set to benefit from this growth – if CTV services and advertisers can take advantage of the major trends. Ad loads on AVOD services have historically been lower than traditional linear television ad loads.  That’s going to change somewhat in 2023, as more advertisers turn their attention – and their ad budgets – to streaming services. To accommodate a growing number of advertisers, some AVOD services will increase the number of ad slots available, while remaining below linear TV’s oppressive ad load.  The automation of CTV advertising will continue unabated.

  Ad supported streaming television is set to overtake subscription TV channels over the next 12 months, as major streaming platforms such as Disney, Netflix and Amazon are adding ad-funded tiers, according to Dentsu's 2023 Media Trends report. For the second year running, dentsu international has collectively gathered and published the insights and predictions of all its global media agencies into the ultimate 2023 Media Trends guide for marketers worldwide. Drawing on expert media planners and buyers worldwide from Carat, dentsu X, and iProspect the report explores the biggest media trends to watch out for in the coming year.  To find out more about the trends and to access a free copy of the Dentsu 2023 Media Trends report readers can visit www.dentsu.com/reports/media_trends_2023

AVOD spending on TV episodes and movies will climb by 144% between 2022 and 20226 to reach $66bn across 138 countries. The explosive growth of  AVOD services is set to surpass SVOD this year in audience size, and the changing demographics of a free streaming universe that remains young and multicultural while becoming more reflective of a national audience average in education and affluence. Free streaming's audience will grow larger than paid streaming by mid-2022. AVOD audiences grew twice as fast (+16 per cent) as SVOD (+88 per cent) in 2021. In 2022, the number of AVOD users surpassing SVOD. This attributable to a variety of factors, including subscription fatigue, ubiquitous hardware, cord cutting and increased broadband access. While total view time (TVT) is still led by SVOD, the opportunity for AVOD to expand TVT is forecast to increase due to rising inflationary pressures on household consumable items. Streaming will become the fastest growing video format in both viewersh

Programmatically sold advertising on connected TV is expected to reach $155 billion in 2021 and is forecast to grow to $323 billion globally by 2025, accounting for nearly three quarters of the global programmatic spending. Programmatic advertising refers to the automated buying and selling of digital ad space. In contrast to manual advertising, which relies on human interaction and negotiation between publishers and marketers, programmatic ad buying harnesses technology to purchase digital display space. The use of software and algorithms helps streamline the ad buying process on connected TV. With today's technology and the rise of streaming, the CTV experience is significantly more advanced than ever, with more brands preparing to execute with programmatic.  Broadcasters have been on this transformational journey too, with their transition to programmatic and launching new AVOD offerings. Because the process is automated and the maximum price each advertiser is willing to bid fo

Growth in digital video advertising on CTV is expected to reach 56% of total video spend this year. Nearly three quarters (73%) of CTV buyers report shifting media budgets from linear to CTV. Connected TV experienced its highest gains in ad spend during 2020. Advertisers spent on average $20 million on CTV, and 35% of buyers expect to increase their spend in 2021. Moreover, in 2021 more than half of budget allocations 56% are expected to be devoted to digital video on CTV. The movement to audience-based buying in particular has resulted in increased buyer demand for CTV. Brand safety was one of the key drivers for buyers on CTV, with 60% of media buyers rating CTV a highly trusted, brand-safe environment. Categories with the highest spend per advertiser include auto, CPGs, furniture, accessories and direct retail brands. Pre-play streaming services are forecast to receive the biggest increase with 37% of buyers planning to spend more on ad-supported video content (FAST/AVOD).

  Welcome to the new 2021 Connected TV Marketing Association official blog. We've archived all our original company announcements in our new blog's table of contents on our formation.  Our new industry activity blog will be updated weekly with our latest Research, Membership News, Guidelines Report, Code of Practice, Safety Accreditation, Data Privacy and Compliance Standards now being developed with our global industry partners. We appreciate your comments. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email us info@ctvma.org.au

Join the Connected TV Marketing Association becoming an industry member is easy. Our online application form is now available.  Connected television now employs more than 35,000 professionals worldwide and is the fastest growing digital media sector, spanning advertising, media, technology and streaming entertainment (46% of CTV companies are planning a future IPO in this sector). Our LinkedIn Group has over 1500+ senior digital media professionals representing the world's Top 100 leading CTV streaming businesses worldwide and is free to join . For more information about membership email info@ctvma.org.au  

Connected TV Marketing Association's support of UID2 industry vision for a post third-party cookies privacy-first led ad world just moved one step closer with the delegation of Unified ID2 from the IAB Tech Lab's PRAM work group.  CTVMA will include the UID2 protocols in its 2021 Code of Conduct Guidelines and Compliance Report as part of any future independent administrator proposal. Visit the newly launched www.unifiedid.com website for UID documentation, integration workflows and case studies in our resources hub. If you're an advertiser or publisher looking to take your targeting and measurement to the next level. AdExchanger's Regularly Updated Guide to ID2     

  With Google's new Privacy Sandbox announcement Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) presents CTV and programmatic with a unique opportunity to benchmark identity, privacy and addressability into one solution. If there's one thing we've learned these past twelve months, its to expect the unexpected. Preparedness to change and industry cooperation will be key in the coming months and years ahead, and is contingent upon our success for a sustainable advertising future.  Google has not yet named a definitive ID replacement for third-party cookies, instead it is working on several potential solutions for CTV within its Privacy Sandbox. The Privacy Sandbox is Google's initiative to develop open standards to make the web more private and secure for users, while also supporting our publishers, platforms and advertisers on the global web. Alternate identifiers like Unified ID 2.0 and LiveRamp's IdentityLink are contingent in order to cover the IP address's eventual pha

The CTVMA is supporting the world's most effective human verification engine, HUMAN. Human recently became the first to receive accreditation from the Media Ratings Council (MRC) for pre and post-bid protection against Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT) for desktop, mobile web, mobile in-app and CTV. CTV ad fraud affects more than two million devices every day around the world and costs advertisers more than $5 million a month. Invalid traffic accounts for 24% of all programmatic CTV views.  As part of our Code of Practice to combat SSAI ad fraud the CTVMA has been conducting international ad trials across ad platforms for verification standards to protect publishers and advertisers. Adoption of standard naming convention IDs are also helping to prevent the duplication of ad inventory across platforms. Human works directly with the largest internet platforms, DSPs, SSPs and exchanges to verify the humanity of more than 10 trillion digital interactions each week. Findings from the

Worldwide spending on streaming services increased 300% in 2020 to $39.5B and will reach $76.3B in 2024. The continued shift in consumer demand is the most significant transformation to the film, television and video advertising business in 50 years. Streaming video will account for all subscriber growth of global online video subscriptions reach 1.6 billion by 2025. The total number of Connected TVs in use worldwide increased by 122 million in 2020, reaching 1.28 billion units. OS market share ranking Samsung Tizen (12.7), LG's WebOS (7.3%), Sony PlayStation (6.4%), Fire OS (6.4%). Strong growth was also seen in Android (+42%), Roku TV OS (+40%). Just over half (56%) of digital media agency respondents predict that more than half of their video budgets will be spent on CTV in 201. Connected TV outpaces all other digital platforms for the number one ranking of the highest video completion ad rates (98%) in Q2. Ad-supported streaming video is attracting more ad dollars as marketers