wg-ads Status Update 2020-04-27

[calebcordry]

What was accomplished

AMPHTML ads

• Debugging inabox performance regressions across April releases.
• Continued work on chunking of FIE load (I2I: I2I: Chunking in friendly iframe creation amphtml#27584 & PR: 🚀 Introduce more chunking in FIE init amphtml#27585)
• CSS change experiment

Story ads

• GDN backfill test complete. GAM Demo is ready. Some outstanding questions around adsense.
• Monetization metrics exploration

What is next

AMPHTML ads

• Continue to investigate regression losses.
• Introduce manual regression test and explore other ways to optimize finding of root causes.
• Investigation of popular unsupported reservation formats
• Resume signing work

Story Ads

• Alpha trial of auto generated creatives.
• Finalize monetization metrics.