NEWS & BLOG POSTS
IAB Tech Lab Launches Transparency Center to Combat Fraud and Enable Accountability and Compliance in the Digital Advertising Supply Chain
IAB Tech Lab announced the initial launch of its Tech Lab Transparency Center. Its goal is to provide a resource that makes it easy for digital advertising participants — buyers, sellers, and ad tech companies — to see which standards media partners have implemented, their level of compliance, certification program […]
Open Source Repository for Industry Collaboration, Adoption, and Trust
IAB Tech Lab invites the digital media and advertising industry and its software developers to the IAB Tech Lab’s Open Source Initiative to build and share solutions for common industry challenges. Collaborative software development has been practiced since the 1940s through the 1960s and later, mostly driven by researchers, hobbyists, […]
Anthony Katsur Joins IAB Tech Lab As New CEO
Katsur will bring renewed energy to enhanced global standards and code development at a pivotal moment in digital marketing. IAB Tech Lab, the global digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced that respected industry veteran Anthony Katsur will join as Chief Executive Officer. Katsur will assume the role on August 2, […]
Private Relay by Apple, Data Protection Middleware, and Proprietary Approaches vs. Standards
Apple’s latest IP address obfuscation feature and how the ecosystem might achieve similar data protections with standards. Key Takeaways: Apple continues to release privacy focused features; Private Relay is a lot like a traditional VPN, albeit baked into the operating system as opposed to a clunky aftermarket app; It’s not […]
You’ve implemented ads.txt, now what?
How to Simplify Your Process with Supply Chain Validation Since 2017, we’ve seen the success of the ads.txt, app-ads.txt, and sellers.json specifications as means to increase transparency in the programmatic supply chain. These widely adopted standards help buyers verify that they are purchasing inventory from authorized sellers.
CROSS-PLATFORM CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT WITH SCID
SCID (Shared Campaign Identifier) is a key that enables tracking campaigns across platforms. OpenRTB enables advertisers to run campaigns in the real-time bidding (RTB) advertising marketplace. Typically there are a number of entities/tech platforms between the publishers and buyers – Supply Side Platforms (SSPs), Demand Side Platforms (DSPs), exchanges, etc. […]
THE TIME FOR BUY-SIDE TRANSPARENCY IS NOW
Buyers.json and DemandChain Object are ready for implementation to help address challenges around malvertising and nefarious ads. There are few standards in ad tech that have had as incredible an adoption curve as the IAB Tech Lab’s sell-side transparency standards…
Apple’s “Hide My Email” and the Struggle for First-Party Primacy
Last week at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced several new features to enhance its privacy street cred. Among those announcements are “Hide My Email,” “Mail Privacy Protection,” and “iCloud+ Private Relay.” This post focuses on “Hide My Email.”
The Impact of The Trade Desk Contributing UID 2.0 for Industry Development
UID 2.0 Is Now an Open Source Project Guided by PRAM and IAB Tech Lab Working Groups The Trade Desk recently announced it is taking an important step toward fostering a new, industry-led form of addressability by contributing the Unified ID 2.0 (UID 2.0) source code to the Technical Working […]
Seven Key Issues Solved by the New IAB Tech Lab Seller-defined Audience Guidance
The industry is on a path to see the open web shattered into a million walled gardens, as cross-site data centralization at scale is being challenged. Today, many premium publishers see a minority of their audience authenticate, with the vast majority on the lower end of an estimated 5% – […]
IAB Tech Lab Announces New Board Members and Inaugural Law Firms in Residence
IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced today the addition of new board members from Amazon Advertising, CafeMedia, and NBCUniversal. In addition, the organization has named two law firms in residence. New board members include Paul Bannister, Chief of Strategy, CafeMedia, and Ryan McConville, Executive Vice President, […]
IAB Tech Lab CEO Dennis Buchheim Departs
In our careers, sometimes we get a call that is just plain impossible to resist. Dennis got a call like that, and felt he couldn’t ignore it — it presented an opportunity to collaborate with the industry from a different, and important, perspective. And so, after nearly four years leading […]
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OpenDirect 1.5
OpenDirect is the only open standard that supports automated guaranteed buying. OpenDirect 1.5 marks the first major update for the protocol providing essential updates such as change request support, revised diagrams, and improved implementation references.
OpenRTB
OpenRTB is the open standard that provides support for real-time-bidding. OpenRTB 2.5 includes updates on header bidding and video placement type support. OpenRTB 3.0 framework is currently in public comment.
OpenRTB Dynamic Native Ads API 1.2
This spec describes the outer native object. While the Native Ads API is designed to be used with OpenRTB, it provides a set of fundamentals that are useful in non-RTB environments like in-app SDK object description.
Content Taxonomy
The Taxonomy and Mapping Working Group is working to update the current taxonomy and create an enhanced and more powerful taxonomy, permitting content creators the ability to more accurately and consistently describe content.
