Connected TV Marketing Association @CTVMA

Standards in Streaming Viewability and CTV Measurement Recently GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, partnered with media companies across the advertising industry to create new standards in streaming viewability and CTV measurement to improve ad verification and reduce invalid traffic.  The initiative follows a joint study with TV ad measurement company iSpot that quantifies inflated CTV ad delivery counts and reveals that, on average, 8-10% of streaming impressions play when the TV is shut off, primarily through ancillary devices. Companies including Disney, Fox/Tubi, LG Ads Solutions, NBCUniversal, Paramount, VIZIO and Warner Bros.  Discovery have committed to working at an industry level with agencies, advertisers, and standards-setting bodies to create a streamlined measurement framework and set of best practices to ensure ads are only counted when delivered to screens that are on, with people in front of them.  The Phase One study found that:  On average, 8-10% of overall strea