Display and rich media standards
Display advertising - banners, skyscrapers, half page ads and MPUs - is the heart of online advertising. In 2009 display advertising was worth £709.3m and accounted for 20.0% of the overall online advertising market. The IAB helps to grow and protect this thriving marketing channel by offering advertisers, agencies and publishers basic standards to make display advertising better and easier to use.
The IAB has led the standardisation of online display advertising for over ten years. In 2010, we’ve worked across the industry with the IPA and AOP. The standards have been reduced in number to six and a new standard format in the shape of the Half Page Ad has been introduced.
A guide to help you plan and time the workflow and delivery of your creative assets.
The IAB in conjunction with the Display Council (consisting of media owners and media agencies) has designed a set of guidelines to identify and prevent discrepancy, reaffirming the IAB's recommended tolerance.
The IAB Global Measurement Guidelines solve one of the most critical issues for interactive marketers, agencies, ad-servers and publishers by establishing a clear definition of an online advertising impression in the context of ad-serving technology.
Following a period of consultation with media owners and agencies, members of the AOP and the IAB have agreed an industry policy for charging where there is late delivery of online advertising creative, effective from 1 April 2006.
Service providers need to consider making reasonable adjustments to the way they deliver their services so that disabled people can use them. Back in 2004, the IAB produced a set of tips to producing accessible adverts along with a briefing to members on this matter to help them comply with the act.