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Goodbye, Outstream: The Digital Video Classification Shakeup

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When an advertiser places video content on a publisher’s site, the opportunities are manifold.

Do they place the ad between content, next to content or floating next to content? Is it an adhesion unit, or do you scroll past the ad? Does the player loop ads, or does the video ad precede content? Is that content custom or AI-generated? Is the player click-to-play or autoplay? Sticky or not?

Until recently, buyers understanding of these options were murky, or reduced to two options – like instream or outstream. Buyers haven’t always known exactly what video ad experience they were buying. Changing the definitions, as the IAB Tech Lab did, gives buyers more transparency.

We hear from our associate editor, Anthony Vargas, who is reporting on the changes wrought by this new technical standard.

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