Connected TV Marketing Association @CTVMA

  CTV Creative Showcase As a long-time Cannes Lions attendee and Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, I’ve spent over a decade watching our industry redefine what television advertising means. The Croisette may not have changed much, but the screens we create for—and the minds we aim to move—certainly have. Today, the 30-second TV commercial doesn’t stand alone. It competes in a complex new ecosystem, where Connected TV (CTV) has become the most powerful, data-rich canvas for brand storytelling. CTV isn’t just the next evolution of television—it’s the reimagination of it. Over the past ten years, I’ve seen this transformation not just from the festival stage or jury rooms at Cannes, but from inside the war rooms of campaign strategy meetings, where brands now demand measurable creative outcomes alongside big emotional ideas. Our work with partners like Teads and others at the cutting edge of CTV delivery for luxury brands has shown just how far the boundaries can stretch. Pr...

                                                                                                                                                                      Data Partners The Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new initiative aimed at fostering the growth and development of the connected TV (CTV) ecosystem.  This initiative is designed to assist smart TV platforms, streaming services, media agencies, and adtech companies by enhancing our global brand market visibility, to ensure our accuracy of reporting, yields and inv...

                                                                                                      'Project Halo' Since January, the CTVMA has been working on its new streaming audience data paywall with data engineers in Singapore, known as 'Project Halo,' the service will include global OS device figures for publication in its paid research area for clients.   Streaming Audience Data The service will allow members of the CTVMA to share their data as part of its future revenue-sharing business to allow streamers and OS devices to publish their data on a trusted central resource hub.  It will also enable comparisons of audience across devices for both SVOD and FAST platforms. Streaming services need to provide med...

                                                    Home Screen   Prominence                                               The Australian Government has committed to legislating a prominence framework which will determine how TV applications and/or content will appear on Australian TVs and what content appears first in search.  Since our submission to the federal government, Foxtel commissioned research by YouGov to examine what Australians thought about this issue. The overwhelming view of Australian consumers is they want to be in control of the TVs they own and spend thousands of dollars on annually.    The research showed: When given the choice, 94% of Australians said they don’t want the government controlling the ord...

                                                                                          Streaming TV Apps The growth of connected TV app stores is increasing the growth of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels. While the growth of CTV platform app stores will remain constant, the number of FAST channel apps will outnumber CTV device stores. By 2028, the number of FAST channel apps on CTV will exceed the number of mobile apps on smart phone devices on Android and iOS by 8.93 million. FAST App Stores The trend towards in-app advertiser funded programming, shoppable retail media commerce, gaming and DIY channels on CTV means more B2B transactions will occur in unlimited FAST channel apps in the future, rather than on predicted market regulated app st...

    Screen Mirroring Market The Screen Mirroring Apps Market size is projected to reach US$386 million by 2029, with online video conferencing and collaborative social news media investments in screen mirroring and development are forecast to grow by 66% CAGR from 2023-2030.  The research shows the number apps being mirrored in the living room from smartphone devices is increasing the number of apps being published on CTV channel stores.  Gen Z Audiences The largest segment of the study examines the change in shifting audience behaviour of Gen Z viewing since COVID-19 on smart TV platforms to source their news, lifestyle and information directly from influencers on social networks like Tik Tok, Instagram and Twitter, prefering to cast apps from their smartphone, laptop computer or tablet device to their connected TV.  App Publishers Screen mirroring has been available to consumers for some time, however if every mobile device in the room supports screen mirr...

                                                                                                                            Consumer Privacy Following our recent submission to the Australian government consultation prominence framework on the media regulation reform of Connected TV home screens in Australia, the UK Media reform Bill has entered the House for debate. The bill is similar in scope to Australia, with prominence of public service broadcasters (PSBs) on smart TVs.  Under the new Ofcom code, local UK apps would be discoverable on UK devices and reciprocated internationally under carriage agreements by other countries to global CTV viewing audiences. The content impl...

The Connected TV Marketing Association supports and protects a free enterprise Open TV Platform Ecosystem (OTV) of proprietary OS app stores hosting OTT apps of both rights holders, platforms and publishers. As the global AM&E trade for connected television, our organisation conducts research as well as advocacy in this sector. Specifically, as it relates to the ACCC Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-2025 and the industry rules and regulations governed by the ACMA, DCMS, Ofcom, CMA and FCC. Digital trade in the connected home is forecast to reach $72 billion in 138 of the world's leading economies by 2028. We therefore strongly support and encourage an open industry framework for future free enterprise and digital competition. Smart TV platforms and OS devices ensure the policy guidelines provide app developers and publishers with fair and reasonable commercial access when positioning their app (s) in their app stores for commercial approval and visibility. Smart TV OS ma...