Jon Watts

A lot of F-bombs got dropped on stage at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement’s (CIMM) summit in New York City earlier this week. And no, probably not the F-bomb you’re thinking of.

Now that alternative TV currencies have passed the initial sniff tests, how should buyers and sellers compare their viewership numbers? The leaders of Nielsen, Comscore, iSpot and VideoAmp gathered onstage during the Coalition of Innovative Media Measurement summit in New York City to answer that question.

In today’s newsletter: European news companies are suing Google; the TV industry reevaluates IP addresses; Sridhar Ramaswamy will be Snowflake’s new CEO.

State privacy laws could make it a lot harder for advertisers to use IP addresses – a foundational signal for CTV ad targeting and attribution for well over a decade.

“Measurement” and “currency” are often conflated in TV land, but they’re not the same. They have different standards and use cases – and these contrasts matter as the industry looks for a better way to transact TV ads.

Streaming is attracting more and more of TV ad spend. And yet, measurement still hasn’t caught up. But traditional panel-based measurement is far from the only culprit – issues with ad fraud, viewability and audience identification are more prevalent on streaming. That’s why TV measurement needs to be a fusion solution, says Jon Watts, managing director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM).

Although advanced, addressable and convergent TV might sound like synonyms, they are distinct concepts. Think of advanced TV as the umbrella term for anything that is not traditional, over-the-air broadcast TV, with specific techniques including addressable and convergent TV, data-driven linear and OTT. To make the most of TV’s advancements (get it?), it’s important to understand the nuances.

The growth of connected TV advertising isn’t simmering down anytime soon – but the lack of an industrywide standard for campaign measurement is making it a rocky road. Several executives at AdMonsters’ Ops conference in New York City discussed how interoperability between TV publishers can help solve for some of the standstills stemming from the lack of consensus.