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IAB Expands QAG – to Include All Buyers & Sellers of Digital Media, Delivering Brand Safety across Digital Transactions
Ad & Media Strategies
October 10, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

IAB Expands QAG – to Include All Buyers & Sellers of Digital Media, Delivering Brand Safety across Digital Transactions

The IAB’s Network and Exchange Committee launched the Quality Assurance Guidelines (QAG) compliance program on April 4, 2011. This program provides brand safety assurances to advertisers that their ads will not appear next to inappropriate content. Today, at its annual MIXX Conference & Expo in New York, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced that it is building upon the program’s success and expanding QAG beyond networks and exchanges to include marketers, agencies, DSPs, SSPs and trading desks to establish greater marketplace trust on all sides.

Co-Op Advertising Presents Untapped Financial Opportunity for the Interactive Marketing Ecosystem
Ad & Media Strategies
September 7, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

Co-Op Advertising Presents Untapped Financial Opportunity for the Interactive Marketing Ecosystem

Spotlighting a sector of the digital advertising economy that offers great financial opportunity, but has yet to be fully embraced, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Local Search Association (LSA) today released an in-depth whitepaper entitled “Co-Op Advertising: Digital’s Lost Opportunity?” The report looks at digital entryways for the traditional advertising practice of splitting costs between manufacturers and retailers when an advertisement benefits both parties. Outlining co-op advertising’s potential rewards for the interactive ecosystem, the paper also highlights challenges that would need to be overcome in order to take advantage of its merits.

Innovative Attribution Models Shift How Media is Bought and Sold, Says Proprietary IAB Research
Ad & Media Strategies
July 3, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

Innovative Attribution Models Shift How Media is Bought and Sold, Says Proprietary IAB Research

Advanced techniques for attributing value to digital media channels, based on specific campaign goals and detailed data analysis are replacing simplistic first and last click measures, to become the basis of publisher compensation. Lack of consensus on the “right” new approach, however, is causing confusion in the marketplace. The “Digital Attribution Comes Of Age,” a new commissioned study released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), analyzes the drivers of this shift and reveals several trends that are shaping the practice of digital attribution.

IAB Launches Digital Media Sales Certification to Set New Professional Benchmark for the Interactive Advertising Industry
Ad & Media Strategies
May 30, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

IAB Launches Digital Media Sales Certification to Set New Professional Benchmark for the Interactive Advertising Industry

Until now, the digital advertising field has lacked professional benchmarks such as the legal world’s Bar Exam and Wall Street’s Series 7. That situation changes with the announcement by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) establishing the first-ever educational standard for digital media sales forces with the launch of the “IAB Digital Media Sales Certification.”

IAB to Establish Ad Technology Council
Ad & Media Strategies
March 8, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

IAB to Establish Ad Technology Council

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced the launch of the IAB Advertising Technology Council, a new IAB body to coalesce the burgeoning, but fragmented, advertising technology sector toward the goal of developing technical standards and operating best practices.