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The IAB Tech Lab issued a report expressing significant concerns about Google’s Privacy Sandbox. To some in the industry, such as Uri Lichter, CEO at Intango, the problem is that the notion of third-party cookies is too broad. The industry needs to come together to develop a new class of cookies that help the advertising business function properly and ones that browsers don’t ban.

Shay Brog, CEO, Burt Intelligence, shares five ways publishers can actually use AI to drive user engagement and traffic while simplifying operations. 

The digital industry is now familiar with AI-driven technology because it delivers value in data analysis and ad targeting. But the focus today is on AI’s potential to transform creative functions. In particular, brands should look closely at how AI can enable highly relevant, customized creative at scale. This is the next logical step in using AI in digital audio advertising.

In this AdMonsters Q&A we speak with John Pasmore, CEO of Latimer, the inclusive Large Language Model, centering Black and Brown perspectives to ensure AI is inclusive and unbiased. Latimer is built to accurately reflect the experience, culture, and history of Black and Brown people. Named for the great American inventor Lewis Latimer, Latimer is now available as a more inclusive alternative to ChatGPT.

At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s most recent child safety hearing, lawmakers assert that social media companies are inadequately protecting young people from sexual predators, addictive features, suicide and eating disorders, unrealistic beauty standards, and bullying. 

The IAB Diligence Platform last week at its Annual Leadership Meeting. To learn more about how the IAB Diligence Platform can benefit AdOps teams and the industry, we sat down with Michael Hahn, EVP and General Counsel, IAB, and Richy Glassberg, co-founder and CEO of SafeGuard Privacy.

AdMonsters was in the room at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting 2024, soaking up every last nugget of wisdom. The importance of collaboration, unity, and direct engagement in creating standards was highlighted as the path to success, shaping the future of the digital economy. Brick by brick, together, we are finding solutions to some of the industry’s most pressing challenges. Following are six things we saw, heard and digested at IAB ALM 2024. 

The IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox Demo Tool, donated by Index Exchange, was developed to showcase Protected Audience API (PAAPI), a component of Google’s Privacy Sandbox. Using the tool, any ad tech professional can run through a demonstration of PAAPI to see how user interest groups are created and how relevant ads can reach consumers without cookies.

Brands gauge attention metrics through various parameters such as viewability, creative size, interaction, ad position, time of day, publisher or program, audibility, page clutter, device frequency, and eye tracking. We spoke with Yannis Dosios, Integral Ad Science’s CCO, to understand why attention metrics is the new hot commodity, the development of IAS’ Quality Attention Product, and how they plan to future-proof the tech. 

AI technology is evolving much faster than regulation can control. But regulators like Italy’s Data Protection Authority are working to ensure we can all reap AI’s benefits while complying with data ethics. Amid their lawsuit against the NYT, OpenAI faces privacy scrutiny in Europe after a multi-month investigation into ChatGPT’s data collection methods.