standards

According to a new report, IP-to-email matches are accurate just 16% of the time on average, while IP-to-postal matches are accurate only 13% of the time. (Oof.)

What do toasters have in common with transparency and online advertising standards? Quite a lot, actually, says Ben Hovaness, chief media officer at OMD Worldwide. No, really.

Before the industry embraces clean rooms, it’s critical to have clarity on their true strengths and a set of agreed-upon standards, writes Michael Barnaby, senior director of product management at Permutive.

Three web standards organizations tasked with the online ad industry overhaul, the W3C, the IAB Tech Lab and Prebid.org, called out for help this week during a series of presentations and a joint panel at the AdMonsters Ops conference in New York City.

While Google is busy dismantling how the open web functions, the ad industry is busy trying to re-architect it. The IAB Tech Lab released several technical specifications for review on Tuesday in support of Project Rearc. The industry initiative began last year by developing a framework for online targeting without reliance on third-party cookies, including […]

Ad viewability is now table stakes, but audibility measurement is still in its very earliest stages. It’s been two years since the Media Rating Council released its standard for digital audio measurement – defined as two continuous seconds of play in a fraud-free environment and with the volume on – and there still aren’t any offerings on […]

The World Wide Web Consortium has 437 business, community, interest and working groups – and soon there might be one more. Around six members of the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group (IWABG) are pitching the creation of a new group, known for now as the Decentralized Web Interest Group (DWIG), that will help W3C groups […]

The structure of the World Wide Web Consortium can be confusing, since thousands of technologists across hundreds of companies participate in hundreds of groups, all with very specific purposes and remits. There are four broad types of groups that exist within the W3C – interest groups, business groups, community groups and working groups – each of […]

WarnerMedia’s farewell to the OpenAP Consortium Friday was inevitable. The writing has been on the wall since February, when AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner was finalized. “It makes sense to pull out now [that] they’re owned by a company that has one of the largest data sets available,” said Tracey Scheppach, CEO and […]

How many seals, accreditations, badges, consortiums, committees and standards can one industry support before it collapses under the weight of its own good intentions? The ad industry seems hell-bent on finding out. “There may be too many badges and seals out there,” Mike Zaneis observed on a panel during Advertising Week in New York City. […]

While mobile app advertising is in dire need of standards, that prospect is easier said than done. Confusion and wrongheadedness in the industry is rife, even among user acquisition specialists. “Ask a room full of UA managers to explain how mobile tracking works and I think most won’t be able to explain the whole process,” […]

Accuracy is a spectrum when it comes to location data. And because there’s no systematic way to discern between different types of location data, including how granular it is or when it was derived, the buy side is confused and reluctant to spend. “When we ask clients what the stumbling block is for location, they […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. To my frustration, talking about proprietary vs. open software standards is a really good way to […]