Digital TV News: IAB

Comcast to launch cross-publisher advertising solution
Jan 6, 2025 – Comcast has announced Universal Ads, allowing advertisers to buy premium video as easily as they buy from social media platforms. Universal Ads is built on FreeWheel's ad technology.
News categories: Comcast Advertising, FreeWheel, Universal Ads, James Rooke, James Borow, Mark Marshall, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jeff Collins, Advertising, CES2025, Digital TV, USA

IAB Tech Lab releases programmatic CTV genre guidance for comment
Dec 11, 2024 – IAB Tech Lab has released deliverables focused on helping the industry more efficiently use IAB Tech Lab's taxonomies, focusing on usage of the Ad Product Taxonomy and CTV genre values.
News categories: IAB Tech Lab, Anthony Katsur, Katie Shell, Temese Szalai, Advertising, Digital TV, Streaming, USA, Worldwide

DPG Media and castLabs enable OMID-certified client-side measurement
Nov 7, 2024 – castLabs has partnered with DPG Media to deliver an advanced OMID (Open Measurement Interface Definition) certified addressable TV Ads solution, using AWS Elemental MediaTailor from Amazon Web Services (AWS).
News categories: castLabs, DPG Media, Amazon Web Services, Michael Stattmann, Maarten Schoonvliet, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Media Player, Worldwide

IAB Tech Lab launches competition to standardize CTV ad formats
Oct 22, 2024 – IAB Tech Lab has launched an 'Ad Format Idol' initiative, inviting stakeholders to submit their most successful Connected TV (CTV) formats to help drive standardization.
News categories: IAB Tech Lab, Anthony Katsur, Cintia Gabilan, Ken Weiner, Advertising, Digital TV, Streaming, USA, UX, Worldwide

Comscore and FreeWheel offer ID-free audiences for CTV
Aug 26, 2024 – Proximic by Comscore (NASDAQ:SCOR) and FreeWheel have announced a partnership to support privacy-resilient ID-free audiences for CTV. Paramount is among the first to adopt the new audiences.
News categories: Proximic, FreeWheel, Paramount, Rachel Gantz, Matt Clark, Leo O’Connor, Sari Applebaum, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Streaming, Worldwide

CTV advertising in Europe up 23.5% in 2023
Jun 12, 2024 – IAB Europe has released its AdEx Benchmark Report covering advertising expenditure in Europe. The report shows that CTV advertising in Europe grew by 23.5% in 2023.
News categories: IAB Europe, Dr Daniel Knapp, Townsend Feehan, Advertising, Digital TV, Europe, Market Research

IAB Tech Lab expands Open Measurement SDK to more CTV platforms
May 30, 2024 – IAB Tech Lab has expanded its Open Measurement SDK to include Samsung and LG - an important step toward achieving standardized viewability metrics for all digital ad platforms.
News categories: IAB Tech Lab, Anthony Katsur, Rachel Creel-McGuire, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Smart TV, Streaming, USA, Worldwide

Fubo unveils new CTV ad offerings at 2024 IAB NewFronts
May 1, 2024 – FuboTV (NYSE: FUBO) announced during IAB NewFronts a suite of four new CTV ad units, expanding the volume and variety of the company's ad offerings.
News categories: Fubo, Dina Roman, Advertising, Digital TV, NewFronts, Streaming, USA

Samba TV uses GenAI to provide actionable context for video ads
May 1, 2024 – Samba TV has debuted Samba AI, generative AI technology that provides insights into the context of what's happening on TV, showing that for video ads context is as crucial as the content itself.
News categories: Samba TV, Ashwin Navin, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, NewFronts, Smart TV, Worldwide