I love CTV.

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That's exactly why I'm writing this.

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I left a General Sales Manager role in broadcast to build a CTV company from scratch because I believe Connected TV is one of the most powerful advertising channels ever created.

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I have watched website traffic surge during heavy CTV flights and slow when campaigns go dark. I have seen view-throughs, form fills, branded search lift, and meaningful business results.

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CTV works.

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As our industry matures, I worry we're beginning to blur the line between what we can measure, what we can model, and what we can infer.

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In our excitement to prove ROI, we've started making attribution the whole story rather than a chapter.

If this were a book, it should be called

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What CTV does best: building awareness, creating demand, and filling the top of the funnel to strengthen bottom-of-the-funnel results. Every conversion begins there.

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The agencies, platforms, and technology partners that earn long-term trust won't necessarily be the ones making the boldest claims.

They'll be the ones willing to have honest conversations about what today's technology can and cannot prove.

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Clients don't expect perfection.

They expect transparency.

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CTV doesn't need bigger promises. It needs greater credibility.

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And if we protect that credibility today, the future of CTV will be even stronger tomorrow.

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