Ad Context Protocol (AdCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents discover inventory, buy media and send creatives across ad platforms through shared tasks.

OpenDirect is IAB Tech Lab's API spec for automated guaranteed buying, letting buyers search, price, reserve and book publisher inventory without email RFPs.

Deals API: IAB Tech Lab's standard for pushing agreed programmatic deal terms from the SSP where a deal is created to buyers' DSPs, naming curator and fee.

Flock has publicly cited about 120,000 cameras. The data, a December 2025 snapshot of Flock's own records, now sits on Swiss servers. Can Flock get it removed?

AAMP, the Agentic Advertising Management Protocols, is IAB Tech Lab's umbrella of standards and open-source code letting AI agents plan, negotiate and buy ads.

OpenProposal is IAB Tech Lab's draft AAMP 3.0 specification setting how AI buyer and seller agents exchange ad proposals between a brief and a buy commitment.

Spotify's ad revenue grew 9% as automated channels added €91m and direct sales lost €53m, while Viaplay's linear decline and new BVDW data test old measures.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Monday's grid is the gentle one: four friendly sets, one of which has been smiling at you from packaging for decades.