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.

What changed in 2.6-202501

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.

• Bid request JSON Schema for 2.6-202501
• Bid response JSON Schema for 2.6-202501

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