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Final Version of App-ads.txt Ready for Adoption to Fight Inventory Fraud in Mobile Apps and OTT

  App Support for Authorized Digital Sells List, app-ads.txt, is Finalized After Beta Period   Today, March 13 2019, IAB Tech Lab’s OpenRTB working group is releasing the final version of the app-ads.txt specification. App-ads.txt is an extension of the original ads.txt standard which provides a mechanism for content owners […]

OpenDirect 2.0 Ready for Industry Adoption

By Jennifer Derke To improve order management in a programmatic world, OpenDirect 2.0 has been finalized and is now ready for full industry adoption. This finalization comes on the heels of major overhaul of the IAB Tech Lab’s OpenMedia programmatic technology stack. Updates to the spec after the public comment […]

IAB & IAB Tech Lab Recognize Outstanding Digital Marketing Leaders with 2019 Sales and Service Excellence Awards

2019 IAB Tech Lab Service Excellence Awards: The IAB Tech Lab Service Excellence Awards recognize the important contributions of members of IAB Tech Lab’s commit groups, working groups, and task forces. [..]

So, You’d like to Propose a Change to OpenRTB/AdCOM…

So, You’d like to Propose a Change to OpenRTB/AdCOM… Sam Tingleff and Jennifer Derke flickr: volvob12b   Like a monarch butterfly, new proposals to the OpenRTB standard do not begin life as a beautiful, fully formed creature.   In this post we hope to first clarify some of the misconceptions […]

GDPR Consent Strings and URL Length: An Advisory from IAB Tech Lab

By Sam Tingleff One of our members recently brought to our attention a concern around the impact of GDPR consent strings on URL lengths. It seems worth a short discussion and an advisory. The Transparency and Consent Framework introduces the concept of a “consent string”, which is a piece of […]

IAB Tech Lab Launches Podcast Measurement Compliance Program

NPR and Rawvoice/Blubrry Earn First Seals of Compliance. The IAB Technology Laboratory Podcast Measurement Compliance Program has entered[..]

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 […]

Open Measurement Software Development Kit for Mobile in-app Advertising Gains Global Adoption, Enabling Viewability Measurement on 2 Billion Devices Globally

Media Rating Council Supports IAB Tech Lab OM SDK Certification to Promote Adoption; 17 Companies from U.S., Europe & Asia Already Certified. [..]

Upgrading Video Ad Delivery Workflows with VAST 4.1

By Pieter Mees, Timothy Olds, Simon Trasler Possibly one of the most important new features in VAST 4.1 (Digital Video Ad Serving Template) is the specification of how to perform ad requests, which tackles a number of long-standing industry challenges and opens a path to more efficient video advertising. This […]

VAST Interactive Templates: Simplifying Interactivity Standards with VAST 4.1

By Michael Tuminello, Aron Schatz, Jesse Leikin VAST (Digital Video Ad Serving Template) and VPAID (Digital Video Player Ad Interface Definition), despite being old enough to pre-date the rise of mobile and over-the-top (OTT) advertising, have thus far resisted a wholesale update.  However, as detailed in the IAB Tech Lab’s […]