CMO Strategies: A guide to marketers’ success metrics for ad-supported streamers, including Netflix, Prime Video and Roku

This is the second installment in Digiday’s two-part series covering the top ad-supported streaming services and a part of Digiday’s CMO Strategies series. In case you missed it, the first installment provided an overview of the various platforms’ offerings, including pricing and plans, ad options and new ad formats, and ad innovations, along with our methodology.

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Advertisers weigh a range of metrics — from impressions to sales — to gauge streaming campaign success

As streaming services continue to rival linear TV for audience share, brands and agencies are eager to measure the success of the campaigns they’re running on ad-supported streaming platforms. They consider metrics ranging from engagement/watch time to impressions to click-through rates. Streaming platforms aim to provide advertisers with that data, but measurement tools vary by platform, and the services must sell their individual platform offerings as well.

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With 600 million users, X’s Linda Yaccarino doubles down on dismissing journalism

Linda Yaccarino continues to cast X as the anti-media media company — a disruptive alternative to what she and Elon Musk believe is the dusty, broke fourth estate.

It’s a contentious claim, especially in an era when President Donald Trump is once again at war with the press. But sitting for a fireside chat with Anthony Pompliano, creator of From the Desk of Anthony Pompliano, on X at Possible this afternoon in Miami, Yaccarino insisted the platform’s (self-reported) numbers back her up.

According to the platform’s CEO, X has nearly amassed 600 million monthly active users (MAUs) globally — a small increase on the 586 million MAUs that were reported in X’s own tools in January, but not a huge increase on the 570 million MAUs X claimed it had reached back in September 2024.

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