Measurement underpins everything that we do. Tech Lab’s CEO Anthony Katsur said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” He was talking about sustainability, but the statement stands across digital advertising as a whole. While the core of this initiative focuses on viewability measurement through the Open Measurement SDK, that doesn’t mean it’s limited to that topic.
We’ll continue to evaluate various types of measurement throughout the supply chain, especially as the addressability landscape continues to evolve, we’re likely to see an evolution of measurement standards along with it. As this evolution continues, we expect to provide technical guidance on common technology to fuel cross media measurement
Tech Lab Specification | Description | Most Recent Release | Release Version | Working Group Responsible |
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Podcast Measurement Technical Guidelines | Sets a consistent set of podcast advertising metrics so that buyers and sellers can engage in a conversation about campaign strategy with confidence. | May 2024 | v2.2 | Podcast Technical Working Group |
Open Measurement (OM) SDK | The Open Measurement Software Development Kit (OM SDK) is designed to facilitate third party viewability and verification measurement for ads served to web video, mobile app, and CTV environments. Now on v1.5 | June 2024 | v1.5 | Open Measurement Commit Group |
Spiders and Bots | The IAB Spiders and Robots list helps companies identify automated traffic such as search engine crawlers, monitoring tools, and other nonhuman traffic that they don’t want showing up in their analytics and billable counts. | April 2024 | Spiders and Bots Advisory Board |