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ID Provenance Added to OpenRTB

OpenRTB 2.6 updated to provide the industry with ability to understand ID provenance

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OpenDirect 2.1 for the Programmatic Guaranteed Trading of Both Traditional and Digital Media

Tech Lab Guest BlogTim Harvey, Founder, Knitting MediaPublished: September 19, 2024 Offline ‘Traditional’ and Online ‘Digital’ Media now supported in IAB Tech Lab Programmatic Direct standards OpenDirect is the open programmatic guaranteed trading standard from the IAB Tech Lab that allows a media buyer to plan, buy, activate and report, […]

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The VAST CTV Addendum 2024 is Ready for Implementation!

Backwards compatibility for VAST 2.0 and above to support features that enable ad serving across all TV-viewing environments

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IAB Tech Lab releases final Privacy Sandbox Fit Analysis

On June 27, IAB Tech Lab releases the final results of the fit analysis of Google’s Privacy Sandbox for Protected Audiences auctions

Introducing Provisional Attributes

The introduction of the OpenRTB Specification in 2012 created a lingua franca spoken by constituents of the Programmatic Supply Chain. By creating a shared language and removing the need for each party to have slightly different interpretations of widely used attributes, the programmatic ecosystem was able to expand exponentially, which […]

Important Notice: Change to OpenRTB Releases Going Forward

Do you know what OpenRTB version you transact on? Better question, do you know which OpenRTB features you support? Do you support Pod Bidding in Connected TV? Do you support AdCOM Lists for enumerations? Do you support the Supply Chain Object?  While you may know the OpenRTB version off-hand, one […]

Demystifying App-ads.txt

As you may have seen, on March 13th we released the final version of app-ads.txt, the mobile and native app follow-up to ads.txt. In this post I’d like to address some of the misconceptions and clarify the value prop around app-ads.txt. Background on ads.txt If you recall, ads.txt (Authorized Digital […]

The Three Deadly Sins of ads.txt and How Publishers Can Avoid Them

In this blog post, we will address some misconceptions and attempt to clarify how publishers should go about deploying and managing ads.txt. Why only three sins and not seven? ads.txt is not complicated enough for seven! ads.txt was never intended to solve every fraud problem in ad tech; it was […]

OpenMedia specs, including OpenRTB 3.0 Finalized and Ready for Adoption

By Jennifer Derke Today, IAB Tech Lab’s OpenRTB working group announced that the much-anticipated OpenRTB 3.0, AdCOM 1.0, and Ad Management 1.0 specifications are finalized and ready for industry adoption. Ads.cert: Signed Bid Requests remains in beta for continued early implementations, and participation with the working group to work on […]

Announcing a new working group to tackle industry issues: IAB Tech Lab’s “Programmatic Practices Task Force”

By Jennifer Derke The digital advertising industry is grappling with important questions about the programmatic supply chain. In an open ecosystem with significant proprietary technology, supply and demand partners may not know how each other’s platforms make decisions. Highlighted in recent trade press, unexpected practices or algorithmic behavior can have […]