Metadata and Advertising Decisioning

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Scoping

The project is currently being scoped by the group. Work has not yet started.

Start:

October 1, 2022

Estimated Completion:

October 31, 2023
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Problem Statement

This is a multifaceted project that explores the state of contextual targeting data in the industry today, identifies gaps in technology and standards that is needed to improve metadata for better ad decisioning, and creates specifications and/or POC for solutions to fill those gaps.

Project Description

As data and privacy rules around the usage of personal and audience data for advertising tighten, many in the industry are looking to improve ad performance via the oldest targeting method in the book – contextual data. This is a multifaceted project that explores the state of contextual targeting data in the industry today, identifies gaps in technology and standards that is needed to improve metadata for better ad decisioning, and creates specifications and/or POC for solutions to fill those gaps.

Project Type

Document

Project Leads

Advisors

There are no SMEs associated with this project.

Goals and Objectives

Project Scope

This project includes the following scope:
  • “State of the Industry & Best Practices” – a document that describes the state of the industry with respect to the use of metadata in ad decisioning. This includes a report on Auto Metadata Generation via AI, in order to understand the state of the industry with respect to automated metadata creation with AI.
  • The WG assumes the above report will identify gaps in the following sections below, which could potentially be unique projects that tie into the whole theme.
  • Taxonomy Specification – Definition and identification of a robust, consistent taxonomy of contextual advertising metadata that is/can gain traction today and be modified for the future.
  • Timed Metadata Protocol – Identification of gaps in signaling when metadata is encountered within a viewing session
  • MCIS Proposal – Identification of a more dynamic metadata system: the ability to access and inject temporal metadata in real-time as ad decisions are being made.

Contributors

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Additional References

There is no pre-requisite reference document for this per se. However a basic understanding of streaming formats and how advertising works – in particular, the Streaming 101 and Streaming Advertising 101 SVTA University courses – would be helpful background prior to reading this document.

Presentations

The following presentations delivered during Advertising and Metadata working group sessions may provide additional information about this project.