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IAB Tech Lab Releases For Comment A Portfolio Of Standards For Responsible Addressability And Predictable Privacy

With less than a year until the sunset of third-party cookies across all browsers, and with imminent changes to mobile advertising IDs, IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, has been collaborating with the advertising and media industry to develop privacy-preserving specifications and best practices to support the […]

Responding to Google’s Recent Privacy Update

The Google announcement has not changed our plans to provide a new portfolio of approaches to addressability, with privacy and with auditable accountability. As expected, major platforms, and advertising and media companies are approaching privacy and data protection differently, but we believe we all share common goals: protecting data, safeguarding […]

Working Together to Support UID2

Last month, in response to an invitation from PRAM (the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media) to the industry for contributions of code for collaborative development toward addressability solutions, The Trade Desk submitted Unified ID 2.0 (UID2). This submission, the first of its kind, put UID2 code on a path to […]

Register Now for IAB Tech Lab’s SKAdNetwork ID List

With the imminent enforcement of Apple’s new privacy features, including the iOS SKAdNetwork feature, IAB Tech Lab has released a new tool for managing and maintaining SKAdNetwork ID list. Advertisers, DSPs, and networks can register their SKAdNetwork IDs and IAB Tech Lab will publish a list of all registered IDs that […]

Implementing app-ads.txt for Safer CTV and OTT Transactions

Supporting the healthy growth of connected TV (CTV) is top of mind at the IAB Tech Lab. With the events of 2020, adoption and usage of CTV has rapidly accelerated. This means tackling timely opportunities and challenges is essential to creating safe and transparent standards in this nascent space, which […]

Reviewing Unified ID 2.0 for Long Term Industry Value

Earlier this month, the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media (“PRAM”) extended an invitation to the advertising and media industry to contribute code for collaborative development of addressability and accountability standards and solutions. Yesterday, The Trade Desk announced the first such contribution for consideration: the submission of Unified ID 2.0 (UID2) […]

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 […]

Fast-Tracking Open Measurement SDK Compliance

In this blog post, we will cover how to successfully submit your mobile app to the IAB Tech Lab for Open Measurement SDK (OM SDK) compliance program and explain how to fast-track the certification process. The certification process typically takes 3-4 weeks, however, the timeline can be reduced or increased […]

Open Measurement for Web Video Arrives

The Open Measurement Software Development Kit (OM SDK) transformed the viewability measurement landscape in 2018 for mobile app measurement. It eliminated the need for multiple vendor integrations and standardized the process for ecosystem feedback. The Open Measurement Working Group (OMWG) was forward-thinking in its vision and anticipated that this mobile […]

IAB Tech Lab Expands Presence in APAC

NEW DELHI (December 3, 2020) – IAB Tech Lab (Tech Lab), the digital media and marketing industry’s global non-profit research, development, and technical standards-setting consortium, announced that Shivendra Misra has been appointed to represent the organization in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region (Southeast Asia, India, China, and Japan). As IAB Tech Lab’s APAC […]