OpenRTB 2.6-202501
What this release is
The January 2025 snapshot added content.gtax and content.genres, giving CTV sellers a standardized genre taxonomy on the Content object instead of free-text genre strings.
Available coverage
- Release documentation
- Available
- Extracted object catalog
- Available
- JSON Schemas
- Available
- Exact-snapshot validation
- Supported
What changed in 2.6-202501
| Change | Kind | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| content.gtax | Added field | OpenRTB 2.6-202501 added genre taxonomy and genres fields on content. |
Validate against 2.6-202501
The tester can pin validation to this exact revision, so deprecated, moved, and not-yet-available findings reflect what 2.6-202501 actually says. The same pin works in the CLI: rtblint validate --version 2.6-202501 request.json.
Adjacent versions
- Previous: OpenRTB 2.6-202409
- Next: OpenRTB 2.6-202505
- All versions: version index
- Migrating across the big steps: 2.5 vs 2.6 and 2.6 vs 3.0