Affinity to contribute towards agentic standards on privacy-preserving native ad placements across enterprises like Browsers, Mobile and TV Operating systems, App Stores, Launchers and Search/AI answer engines.

NEW YORK, June 9, 2026 –  Affinity, a global ad tech company pioneering new frontiers in digital advertising outside of walled gardens, today announced it has joined Ad Context Protocol (AdCP), the independent nonprofit advancing open standards for AI-powered advertising, as a Founding Member.

AdCP is the industry's first open standard for AI-powered advertising, a common protocol that enables AI agents to negotiate, plan, and transact media directly with publisher agents. AdCP standardizes the era of agentic media buying, with autonomous agents making decisions on behalf of advertisers and publishers across any channel, using a shared technical language.

As a Founding Member, Affinity brings deep operational expertise in the advertising surfaces that traditional programmatic infrastructure was never built to serve. Affinity's inventory spans Browsers, Mobile and TV Operating systems, App Stores, Launchers and Search/AI answer engines, channels that reach billions of consumers but have largely been excluded from the automated buying frameworks that dominate digital advertising due to their privacy standards. As AI agents begin to transact across the open web, Affinity's role in AdCP is to ensure those surfaces are built into the standard from the ground up, not as an afterthought.

The inventory Affinity brings to AdCP sits almost entirely outside the programmatic auction infrastructure that has defined display and video advertising. If open standards are written without these surfaces, those surfaces get left behind. By joining AdCP, Affinity is ensuring that does not happen.

"The first generation of agentic advertising infrastructure is being designed primarily by and for the premium programmatic ecosystem. That's only half the picture," said Lavin Punjabi, CEO of Affinity. "The fraud-free surfaces which billions of people access daily and begin their commerce journeys from are browser start pages, on-device search/AI, app stores, minus one screens, etc. That's an area where two decades of experience with these surfaces gives us something real to contribute to the standard."

Key areas of Affinity's contribution will include:

• OEM and browser inventory standardization: Helping define how non-traditional ad surfaces are represented within the AdCP framework
• Demand-supply interoperability: Leveraging Affinity's unique position across both sides of the ecosystem to ensure AdCP works for publishers and advertisers alike



To learn more about Affinity, visit www.affinity.com.