Between March and June, brands said they’re spending 33% less on digital media, and 39% less on traditional media, as the vast majority adjust spending for the first half of the year. The IAB surveyed nearly 400 senior decision-makers at brands and agencies in the past week. Seventy-four percent of them anticipated a coronavirus-related downturn […]
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Without cookies, digital advertising needs to be rebuilt. The IAB wants to partner across brands, agencies, publishers and tech companies to develop a new way to power digital advertising, IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg told members at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Springs, California, Monday. Dubbed “Project Rearc,” for re-architecture, a critical part of […]
Is the IAB living up to its mandate as the standards maker and voice of the digital ad industry? IAB working group participants, board members and industry insiders voiced their concerns to AdExchanger about how the trade group will navigate issues such as user privacy and platform consolidation. The IAB is the largest and most […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Randall Rothenberg, CEO at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Last week Google sent shock waves across the industry when it announced it would phase out third-party cookies for Google Chrome […]
The IAB on Thursday released its California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance framework, the legal and technical mechanism for using ad-targeting data or first-party publisher data in programmatic advertising. It also released a legal agreement meant to accompany the compliance framework. Get it all here. The finished framework comes only two weeks after it first […]
Ever fall down the YouTube rabbit hole or mindlessly scroll through the news feed and then suddenly wake up 30 minutes later with no idea where the time went? Of course you have – and so has Tim Armstrong, former CEO of Oath (now Verizon Media) and AOL. The current business model of the internet is […]
The IAB Tech Lab released the first version of technical specs on Monday that publishers and ad tech companies can use to start complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) while transacting via real-time bidding. The Interactive Advertising Bureau sought public comments for a draft of the compliance framework over a two-week period from […]
The California Consumer Privacy Act wants to make opting out of data collection as easy as clicking a button. But for publishers, advertisers and ad tech companies, it’s not so simple. On Tuesday, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the IAB Tech Lab released the first draft of a compliance framework to help companies handle the […]
Digital is still growing faster than any other advertising medium in the United States, but the segment is starting to show signs of maturing. US digital advertising revenues grew 17% YoY in the first half of 2019, reaching $58 billion, according to the IAB’s internet advertising revenue report, released Monday. While that’s the highest first-half […]
