Ginny Marvin says, “As the industry continues its move away from Flash to HTML5/JavaScript-based ads, the IAB Technology Laboratory is pushing a clear cutoff point for the industry to shift from Flash-based ads entirely. On Tuesday, the trade group issued guidance for the migration, along with the recommendation that all video ads be HTML5-based by July 2017.

Along with transition guidelines, the Tech Lab released checklists for publishers and brands and agencies, with tailored suggestions for addressing the technical requirements and communication best practices for making the transition.

The Tech Lab is slated to release a VAST (video ad serving template) Validator and a JS VPAID (video player-ad interface definition) testing tool by January 2017. The aim is to gradually migrate over the first six months of 2017 to hit the July deadline. The IAB is deprecating all references to Flash in its technical standards and guidelines for VAST, VPAID, OpenRTB and Ad Format guidelines as of January 2017.

The shift from Flash, which poses security challenges and is hardly supported at all on mobile, has been several years in the making and accelerated this past year”.

IAB says all video ads should be HTML5 based by July 2017, issues transition guidance

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