Connected TV Marketing Association @CTVMA

  Our 2024 glossary covers a wide range of new terms and concepts essential for professionals in the connected TV advertising, streaming TV, and programmatic advertising industries. 1. Connected TV (CTV) A television set that is connected to the internet, allowing viewers to stream content from various apps and services. 2. Over-the-Top (OTT) Content provided via internet streaming services rather than through traditional cable or satellite television providers. 3. Addressable TV A form of television advertising that allows advertisers to show different ads to different households watching the same program. 4. Advanced TV A broad term that includes addressable TV, connected TV, OTT, and other forms of digital television delivery. 5. Linear TV Traditional broadcast television programming where content is scheduled and viewers watch at set times. 6. Video On Demand (VOD) A service that allows users to select and watch video content when they choose, rather than at a scheduled broadcast t

  AD FORUM 24 The Connected TV Advertising Forum 2025 brings together the world's leading CTV marketers, innovators, and ad professionals. Set against the stunning backdrop of Barangaroo Sydney, this event promises to be a game-changer for the connected TV advertising ecosystem.  The Event Our forum offers invaluable insights, networking opportunities, and actionable strategies for companies to navigate the ever-evolving global landscape of connected TV advertising.  Key Details: Date Schedule:         May 2025  Location: Barangaroo, Sydney Australia Format: In person and live streamed Brand Marketing, B2B Cloud professionals in Ad Tech, Programmatic, OEM Hardware, Operating Systems, Broadcasters, Telcos, Media Buyers, Publishers, Studios, and Streamers with 35 Asia-Pacific Guest Speakers, 3 International VIPs. Attendees: 650 attendees in person, with live streaming to a global B2B professional audience estimated at 11,500 online registrations across the UK, Australia,

                                                                                                   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

Cannes in Cairns Generative AI video advertising on connected TV is forecast to reach $130 billion by 2028. The review of AI in ad agencies shows increased performance in client creative services, media planning and buying. At last week's Cannes in Cairns conference, Sir Martin Sorrell chair of S4 Capital and founder of WPP keynoted AI and CTV at the top of his agenda.    The race among the top ad agencies to embrace AI has escalated again with the announcement that WPP has joined forces with chipmaker Nvidia, in a partnership designed to create ads using generative AI.  WPP said the platform allows the creation of ad campaigns “more efficiently and at scale,” with large volumes of advertising content becoming “more tailored and immersive.” The advertising giant added that using AI enables its teams to create campaigns in minutes, where they would previously have taken weeks.  “Generative AI is changing the world of marketing at incredible speed,” said WPP CEO Mark Read. “This new

Unified Audience Measurement (UAM) Currency  Within the unified total audience measurement currency, our trust and transparency goals help ensure that quality inventory is consumer first and privacy first by identifying privacy scored inventory in our research.  While there was some debate at the recent Future of TV Advertising event in Sydney around how we define CTV and what viewing falls within the CTV landscape, for example, YouTube, a clear takeaway is that as an industry we must align on how we define total TV audiences within a CTV ecosystem.  There’s a huge sense of urgency within the industry to get measurement right so CTV can attract the ad dollars it deserves. But for any currency to actually work, there needs to be interoperability between big data sets. Advertisers want their measurement providers to give them accurate reach and frequency tied to outcomes.  Buyers want advanced audiences rather than demographics-based audiences. The buy side and the sell side have to a

The CTVMA's Future TV Council has moved to support the recent  Media Rating Council's (MRC) announcement on universal definition standards for over-the-top (OTT) content as part of the Connected TV advertising ecosystem model for sever-side ad insertion (SSAI) and streaming TV content. With CTV sets currently being the dominate global device for viewing streaming video on-demand (SVOD) in the home, the Connected TV Marketing Association will announce CTV+ (plus), as part its upcoming Streaming Video Platforms Report 2022.  The report encompasses the most recent video glossaries from global supply-side and demand side platforms with publishers, including the IAB Tech Lab .

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