IAB moves on viewability with ‘world first’ benchmarks
In what it is claiming as a world first, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has set a line in the sand on viewability, but warned the space is too complex to rely on a single measurement.
IAB CEO Vijay Solanki says viewability benchmark is a ‘world first’
The IAB revealed its white paper that sets a range of standards in reaction to growing concern about the way in which the impact of ads is being accounted for.
It said that ads that are non-viewable and non-measurable do not amount to fraud.
“Viewability is complex and we’ve tried to simplify it where we can,”
It would be easier to make it say, 55% across the board. And, what’s with the fractions of a percent?
Seems arbitrary.
This is incorrect. IAB Singapore have been doing this for months across SEA in partnership with IAS, Moat and comScore on tagged inventory with major Group M, DAN and Publicis agencies and some key Publishers (which I’m one of). They are doing due diligence on the results instead of rushing to market with an explosive headline.
IAB Australia took data from 3 vendors 2 weeks ago, sliced it by format and platform and call it “norms”.
Quite interesting.
Note how Publisher Direct’s share is higher than the Total for both Desktop and Mobile, while Programmatic lags.
A quick bit of algebra shows that Publisher Direct therefore accounts for 89.6% of Desktop and 85.3% of Mobile.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
“ads that are non-viewable do not amount to fraud..”
great work guys..!
this fills all advertisers with confidence in the IAB