Site.sectioncat

Content categories for the section of the site that holds the impression, as taxonomy IDs in the scheme named by Site.cattax.

Currentstring arrayOptionalSince 2.0

Field facts

Path: site.sectioncat
Object: Site
Type: string array
Requirement: Optional
Added: OpenRTB 2.0
Spec section: 3.2.13

How it is used

Sits between the site-wide Site.cat and the page-level Site.pagecat. A news site might send IAB12 site-wide, IAB12-3 for its local news section, and IAB17 for its sports section.

Example

Where the field sits in a payload, with everything else left out:

{
  "id": "req-1",
  "site": {
    "sectioncat": [
      "IAB12-3"
    ]
  }
}

Version history

Added in OpenRTB 2.0, and present in the latest snapshot. The table shows how each version's spec text types the field.

Versions	Type in the spec	Required	Deprecated
2.0 to 2.1	array of string	No	No
2.2	array of strings	No	No
2.3 to 2.3.1	string array	No	No
2.4	string array	No	No
2.5 to 2.6-202606	string array	No	No