The IAB Tech Lab this month released VAST 4.1 for public comment, featuring advancements to the digital video ad serving template. Critical Updates to the Digital Video Ad Serving Template Include Support for Improved Ad Verification, Ad Creative Measurement, and Server-Side Ad Insertion & Integration of Audio Advertising. “As

This year, Google and Sizmek, two major ad servers, moved away from Flash. Google did a radical change disapproving all ads that contain flash, on video or on display. When Flash was killed there was another victim: VPAID on Flash, and probably VPAID as a format. It was the FLASHapocalypse,