Tag: IAB Standards

August 24, 2023 by Michael Sweeney

As the AdTech and programmatic advertising industries enter another year, what trends, challenges and opportunities can publishers, advertisers and AdTech vendors expect to see?

March 10, 2023 by Natalia Figas, Michael Sweeney

For the first time since 2009, the IAB Tech Lab, IAB and MRC have released an updated version to the Intrinsic In-Game (IIG) Measurement Standards.

December 7, 2022 by Natalia Figas, Michael Sweeney

Ever since Google Chrome announced that it would be shutting off support for third-party cookies, the race to find new solutions has been on. One such alternative to third-party cookies comes the IAB Tech Lab in the form of its Seller Defined Audiences (SDA) standard.

May 17, 2023 by Natalia Figas

Before your ad can reach the site where it is supposed to show, it has to travel a certain path. It starts with the advertiser’s server, going through DSP, SSP, ad exchanges to the right target. All subsequent links in this chain are an essential part of the supply (advertiser activity) and demand (publisher activity) […]

July 21, 2022 by Michael Sweeney

A lot happened in the AdTech and MarTech world in Q1 2022. To help keep you informed about what’s happening, we’ve put together a list of the main AdTech and MarTech stories, including news about Google Chrome’s new Topics API, the IAB Tech Lab’s Seller Defined Audiences, and many others.

August 24, 2023 by Paulina Zawiślak

2021 was another big year for the AdTech, MarTech and programmatic advertising industries. We saw Apple roll out more privacy changes, progress made (and lost) with Google Chrome’s privacy sandbox, and numerous mergers and acquisitions.

January 31, 2023 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

Programmatic advertising is made up of many different processes, including media buying, identification, targeting, measurement, and attribution.The IAB and IAB Tech Lab play a key role in creating, defining, and maintaining industry standards to make these programmatic advertising processes run as seamlessly as possible. Below we’ve listed the main standards and initiatives from the IAB Tech […]

February 5, 2021 by Paulina Zawiślak, Michael Sweeney

Ad fraud has been a recurring topic and threat to programmatic advertising and is showing little sign of slowing down. Industry research by cybersecurity company CHEQ revealed that fraudulent activities committed against digital advertising cost the industry $35 billion globally in 2020. Other estimates put that number to be between $6.5 billion and $19 billion. Either way […]

July 28, 2023 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michal Wlosik

As of 25, 2018, all companies that collect, use, process, and share data about EU citizens are required to comply with the General Data-Protection Regulation (GDPR) and implement new data-protection and security measures.

October 14, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

On March 7, 2016, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released its Publisher Ad-Blocking Primer, a 23-page document laying out seven tactics publishers can use to combat the ever-increasing ad-blocker problem. The primer also includes a process known as DEAL, which the IAB suggests publishers follow when having conversations with visitors who use an ad blocker: […]