What does "quality" mean when it comes to online advertising?

In what has been a tough year or so for the adtech industry, dealing with the heavy dual-impact of a catastrophic hit to advertising budgets in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the looming deprecation of third party cookies across all major browsers; ensuring transparency and, crucially, “quality” across the supply chain has never been more important. 

As the IAB Europe published its "Guide to Quality" this month, over on the Cookie Jar, we have taken a look at what quality means in this context - both in terms of ad inventory and ads themselves - and whether the interests of publishers and advertisers are really that opposed. 

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