IAB Tech Labs launches blockchain-analysis pilot program

The effort will examine blockchain projects by member organizations, resulting in a white paper that separates wheat from chaff.

Barry Levine on July 20, 2018 at 12:33 pm

It seems like every other day a new startup is claiming it can cure the woes of digital advertising with blockchain — while doubters point to the technology’s limitations.

To help sort the wheat from the chaff so some real baking can occur, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab announced this week that its Blockchain Working Group is launching a pilot program.

The program will look at blockchain-based, advertising-targeted projects from the Working Group’s 100+ member organizations. It will then write a white paper that attempts to point out the actual value — and possibly throw shade on the hype — of blockchain’s potential for this industry.

So far, projects have been identified from Kochava Labs, FusionSeven, MetaX and Lucidity. Each includes a variety of ad tech participants, including advertisers, agencies, DSPs, publishers and exchanges.

[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]

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Barry Levine

Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.