A Data Clean Room is not just another ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) machine. And it needs to have specific capabilities that qualify a product or service as a Data Clean Room. The phrase stems from the industrial manufacturing facility concept, where a clean room was a controlled area to…
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The IAB Tech Lab has committed to publishing programmatic best practices alongside their quantified carbon impact from sustainability vendors like Scope3 and Cedara.IO, who are part of the working group. To educate the industry, we will publish benchmarks using existing data on supply paths. In the future, we will update…
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Another day, another way for the ad tech alphabet soup plot to thicken. But this time, it seems to be a step in the right direction towards unifying compliance across state privacy laws called the Multi-State Privacy Agreement (MSPA). As of late, IAB and the IAB Tech Lab is committed to encouraging…
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IAB Tech Lab believes there won't be a single "silver bullet" technology or approach that makes sense for everyone. Instead, advertisers and publishers will need to rally around a portfolio of approaches to addressability that individually meet different functional needs and business use cases.
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This week, we were presented with a major IAB Tech Lab ads.txt update as they announced two new values for publishers to add to their ads.txt files, and both have the power to impact the adtech game in a big way. "Ownerdomain" and "managerdomain" have two separate functions within ads.txt,…
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Publishers have longed for a privacy-safe way to make their own data and site traffic translatable programmatically across many sites and sellers. With less than a year to go until the demise of third-party cookies in Chrome, there seems to be a new kid on the block who will serve…
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The Tech Lab's Open Source Initiative will make the code and guidelines of ad tech projects — like UID 2's Open Source ID framework, proof of concept libraries for implementing authenticated connections using Ads.cert, and brand suitability test benchmarks — available to everyone, all in one place.
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If you're thinking GDPR was the warmup for CCPA, think again. It's not even half the battle. Especially not for those publishers who simply decided that cutting off EU traffic was the right play. But for the lot of you who attracts a large international audience, that approach isn't even…
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The IAB’s CCPA Compliance Framework provides a much-needed industry-standard to pass along crucial information about a consumer’s sold PI and the consumer’s journey with respect to what the CCPA requires. Its weaknesses and strengths come from the same source—it is not meant to provide a definitive answer on CCPA language…
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To move the industry towards a more transparent future, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has been hard at work releasing specifications that help shed light on the programmatic buying and selling of ads. In 2017 it was ads.txt. This year, it’s sellers.json and supplychain object. But the question is, what exactly…
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