#ctv

Most connected TV incrementality tests fail before a single ad runs because the test produces a number that looks convincing without proving anything. Coming into this year cross-platform measurement ranked as a top priority for 72% of advertisers, up from 64% in 2025, according to the IAB’s 2026 Outlook Study.

Attribution focuses on identifying which advertising exposure deserves credit for a conversion. Incrementality asks whether that conversion would have happened without the ad.

Performance TV advertising platform tvScientific by Pinterest has launched its Certified Measurement Partner Program. The initiative recognizes trusted measurement providers that meet standards for accuracy, transparency, and performance across Performance TV campaigns.

The program gives advertisers transparent and interoperable ways to measure CTV and Performance TV outcomes.

Smartly has partnered with Roku to connect directly to Roku Ads Manager through the Roku Ads API. The integration allows performance marketers to apply the same social advertising workflows to connected TV inventory on the top streaming platform in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/smartly-brings-social-advertising-speed-with-new-roku-partnership/53587/).

The partnership removes the separate build...

Patriot Auto Group added AI-generated connected TV ads from Adwave and recorded a 34% increase in showroom visits across four months according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/case-studies/how-adwave-enabled-patriot-auto-group-to-expand-its-reach-grow-sales-with-ctv-demand-gen-report-case-study/53534/).

The dealership operated two Tampa locations selling new and pre-owned vehicles.

Programmatic CTV Pause Ads outperformed traditional 60-second CTV spots across all 13 verticals studied according to [Demand Gen Report](https://www.demandgenreport.com/industry-news/news-brief/wunderkind-ads-releases-first-benchmarks-for-programmatic-ctv-pause-ads/53476/). The WunderKIND Ads analysis of millions of impressions found Pause Ads delivered nearly 2X higher attention time.

Wurl's CTV Trends Report finds that broad genre and channel exclusions cause advertisers to miss FAST news audiences. The report states that scene-level contextual targeting evaluates content immediately before ad breaks.

News accounts for 8.6% of all FAST viewing hours according to the report. Devices that spend more than 90% of time on news represent 7.4% of viewing hours across all FAST genres.

Amazon Ads and LinkedIn have launched a collaboration that allows advertisers to activate LinkedIn CTV Ads through Amazon DSP.

Advertisers can now reach professional audiences with LinkedIn’s Connected TV Ads through Amazon DSP, bringing LinkedIn’s first-party audience signals from more than one billion members to streaming TV inventory.

IAB Tech Lab is updating OpenRTB to address the growing need to define live content in programmatic channels, announcing new attributes for describing live content and refinements to substitution macros. These changes, now open for public comment through late May, aim to reduce ambiguity in the bidstream as connected TV (CTV) and real-time inventory expand, according to [MarTech](https://martech.org/iab-tech-lab-updates-openrtb-to-better-define-live-content/).

On April 27, tvScientific by Pinterest announced that advertisers can target Pinterest’s exclusive high-intent audiences on Connected TV through its platform, marking the first major milestone since Pinterest acquired tvScientific in February 2026. This launch allows advertisers to reach these audiences off Pinterest and on TV, as part of a broader vision for a unified cross-screen advertising experience.