Anthony Katsur

Ad industry experts call out trends to watch in 2026 and separate the real AI use cases having an impact today from the AI hype they heard at CES.

Agentic Alphabet Soup Another day, another attempt at making sense of agentic AI. On Tuesday, the IAB Tech Lab released its Agentic Roadmap, a framework designed to help the industry scale agentic buying and selling without rewiring existing workflows. Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur says the new road map will minimize fragmentation and confusion across […]

LiveRamp’s gift could make IAB Tech Lab’s AI consent model workable; Spotify hypes video podcast growth and nabs a bigger ad margin; and Coke launches another AI holiday ad campaign.

The IAB Tech Lab’s new device attestation feature for its Open Measurement SDK provides a scaled way for original device manufacturers to confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices.

Google’s SSP tries to cut out its DSP ahead of a possible ad tech breakup; Perplexity’s head of ads skips town; and Amazon’s search ad pause flooded the market with big spenders.

IAB Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur didn’t mince his words when declaring unauthorized generative AI scraping of publisher content “theft, full stop.”

RE/MAX gets into the retail media game; Meta loses a class-action lawsuit over how it handled period-tracking data; and the IAB Tech Lab unveils its ad delivery playbook for live events.

The IAB Tech Lab’s new initiative suggests regulations for how AI bots can access content, ensuring that publishers are fairly compensated.

Can the IAB Tech Lab’s Trusted Server initiative really help restore publishers’ ownership of monetization and wrestle back control from Big Tech and walled gardens?

Yahoo’s endorsement could drive further adoption of the IAB Tech Lab’s data transparency labels throughout the programmatic ecosystem after years of inaction.

A new storyline is emerging around curation, one in which publishers feel they’ve lost out to middlemen on yet another opportunity to monetize their audiences.

The Consumer Electronics Show may be “the event that folks love to hate,” as IAB CEO David Cohen put it to AdExchanger – but it’s still the place to be at the start of every new year.

The IAB Tech Lab is officially rebranding its Seller Defined Audiences spec as “Curated Audiences” to spur adoption in response to this year’s sell-side curation trend.

If Chrome imitates Apple, there may be a de facto deprecation of the third-party cookies, since potentially only a slim percentage of users would consent to tracking. In that case, advertisers would still have to primarily rely on cookie alternatives, including the Privacy Sandbox.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. BeReal Gets Real French photo-sharing app BeReal was a sensation in 2021 and 2022. But even when its organic growth was through the roof, the app – which is free to use and has no ads – faced the question of how it would eventually […]

In today’s newsletter: Google’s ad strength meter could push advertisers to adopt Google’s campaign preferences; Home Depot hosts an “InFront” to show off its RMN, Orange Apron Media; and the Privacy Sandbox rollout could do serious damage to the online ad industry.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Time Ads have arrived on Prime Video.  But audiences have just about had it with streaming services that nickel-and-dime them, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead of forking over an additional $3 per month to avoid ads, many have canceled their Amazon […]

Marketers will fold generative AI into more of their creative processes and ad creative in 2024.

State privacy laws could make it a lot harder for advertisers to use IP addresses – a foundational signal for CTV ad targeting and attribution for well over a decade.

Digital advertising’s biggest trade organization, the IAB, took a shot at Apple on Monday. Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework undermines advertising, according to the IAB, even as Apple builds its own ad business. “Apple is fine with advertising, as long as they get to control it on their terms,” IAB CEO David Cohen told hundreds of industry […]

The giants of linear TV are fully aware of the power of streaming. Yet it’s difficult for linear budgets to shift to streaming the way things currently stand, writes Anthony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab. The industry has a simple goal to pursue: to establish interoperability between legacy linear and connected television, which will streamline ad spend across both channels.

Google, and every other ad tech company, is trying to figure out how to deliver personalized marketing without being creepy or violating a privacy policy. “First-party data is imperative,” said Michael Burke, managing director of Google’s branded luxury apparels business, at the IAB Tech Lab’s Brand Disruption Summit in New York City on Wednesday. “But the fallacy is the idea that [first-party data] needs to be used for one-to-one marketing.”

The IAB Tech Lab announced its Global Privacy Platform (GPP), a framework to standardize the sharing of consent signals so companies can more easily comply with global privacy regulations. “It’s a protocol for streamlining and managing cross-jurisdictional privacy compliance,” said IAB Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur – which is why the platform will be ready to incorporate new consent strings within the framework as they emerge.

AVOD is the same thing as FAST … right? Not so fast. Despite dozens of streamers, programmers and publishers crowding the space, AVOD and FAST are the only two ways to watch ad-supported TV beyond the set-top box, and the core difference between them comes down to content distribution.

We need to find a balance between privacy and sustaining an ad-supported digital media ecosystem, writes Anthony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab. But no one will tolerate half measures going forward. To that end, IAB Tech Lab and its members are developing a portfolio of practical technical standards meant to help the ad industry adapt to evolving consumer expectations, regulations and related browser and OS changes.

Does IAB Tech Lab CEO Tony Katsur have the toughest gig in ad tech? That’s an “accurate description,” Katsur says on this week’s episode. It’s his job, among many other things, to spearhead and speed up Project Rearc, an ambitious industry effort to press reset on how personalized advertising works online.

What does it mean, in practice, to take a privacy-first approach to addressability? Respecting the consumer, of course. But it also means living in “data privacy hell.”

Change is coming to online identity, writes Anthony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab. Resist the urge to plan based on hope or cynicism. Instead, focus on a defensible approach, whether you’re creating audiences as a publisher or connecting audiences between an advertiser and a publisher.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swimming Up-Stream Wall Street is coming around to streaming revenue as a long-term priority. Or, rather, as a source of heavy immediate investment. ViacomCBS has done well enough out of the gate with its Paramount+ streaming service to inspire Wells Fargo to “move from […]

Anthony Katsur comes brandishing a fitting resume for IAB Tech Lab CEO. He held senior leadership roles at DoubleClick, MediaMath, Rubicon Project, Sonobi and Nexstar, and he’s familiar with the messy intersection where IAB rules and business frameworks meet on-the-ground technology. Katsur faces a tough job that would challenge even an experienced leader when he […]