🆚 IAB TCF vs. RSD

Type

Standard
Standard

About

The Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) is an open-source industry standard developed by IAB Europe that helps companies comply with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements when processing personal data in digital advertising ecosystems.

It defines technical specifications and policies for collecting and communicating user consent choices, standardizes how these preferences are shared between publishers, advertisers, and CMPs, maintains a centralized list of approved vendors, and ensures transparency by giving users clear control over how their data is used.

Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.

It helps clients find endpoints for reading, editing, and interacting with website content through APIs.

Headquarters

Brussels, Belgium
Wesley Hills, New York, United States

Website

Categories

Standards › Rank #18
Standards › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

RSD is 29 times more popular than IAB TCF.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while IAB TCF is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Japan
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

RSD is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while IAB TCF is more commonly used on sports sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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