New IAB Chairman Takes Industry to Task

'Stop the devaluing of digital media'

Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah was named the new chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau tonight. And he started his tenure by immediately taking the industry to task for letting bad traffic perpetuate—taking particular aim at digital media buyers.

During a blunt keynote address at the IAB Annual Meeting, Shah said of the online ad business: "It seems to me that we have taken a perfect product and by our own actions have made it imperfect. Let’s

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