Audio & Video
Guidance for Uniquely Identifying Creative Asset IDs in VAST (Deprecated)
This guidance is outdated as of June 11, 2024 with the release of the Ad Creative ID Framework which you can review here: Background: With the release of VAST 4.x, the latest versions of the digital video ad serving template, the Universal Ad-ID feature was introduced to address inconsistencies in […]
SIMID 1.1 Updates Add Support For Nonlinear Ads
As described in our Simplifying Video Ad Delivery blog post, IAB Tech Lab’s video working groups are modernizing the video stack to better support CTV and mobile platforms, and factoring in safety and usability in video ad delivery. A big part of that update is replacing VPAID with specs that […]
Privacy, Data, and Identity for CTV Advertising
Part of the blog post series: CTV Advertising Standards: IAB Tech Lab Standards & Guidance Executive Summary: The details: The key to good ad experiences is being able to deliver the most relevant and engaging ads to the right people. The challenge of course is that this has to be […]
Apple watchOS Duplicates Podcast Downloads Resulting in Inflated Reporting: Filtering Guidance
Updated on October 14, 2020 to provide more specific user agent strings. Concerns have recently been raised about Apple’s watchOS Podcasts app. Downloads to an Apple Watch device appear to be duplicative of downloads to a user’s iPhone after the watch performs its synching cycle. This outcome could result in […]
Guidelines for CTV/OTT Device and App Identification
By Amit Shetty With the growth of Connected TV (CTV), Set Top Boxes, and other Over-The-Top (OTT) devices, and the explosion in streaming video services, the OTT space is fast becoming one of the most important segments of video advertising. With this growth comes many technical challenges. The wide range […]
The Time For The Over-the-Top Identifier for Advertising (OTT IFA) Is Now!
By Bennett Crumbling, J. Allen Dove, Chris Gordon, Courtney Rogers & Amit Shetty How many times have you had this experience on your over-the-top video (OTT) device when you are watching a program and you see a commercial for the same car about 10 times in an hour? Yet, you already bought […]
VAST 4.1 – Now With Audio Power!
By Jonathan Eccles and Jean-Luc Wasmer With the release of the latest version of the Digital Video Ad Serving Template, VAST 4.1, ad tech companies, servers, and publishers will finally be able to unify existing video ad specifications with the quickly growing digital audio ad market. The separate Digital Audio […]
VAST 4.1 & Open Measurement – the long awaited video verification solution!
By Jon Guarino and Phil Harris Digital Video Ad Standard Template (VAST) 4.0 represented an essential rethinking of third-party verification on video inventory. Previously, running measurement code was possible only through Video Player-Ad Interface Definition (VPAID) media files, which would necessarily obscure and delay the actual creative content. This […]