Connected TV Marketing Association @CTVMA

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).

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