Tag Inspector: August 2026 Release Notes

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August 30, 2026

The Tag Inspector August Release expands compliance capabilities by introducing explicit CMP coverage verification, granular consent condition auditing, and support for server-side Google Tag Manager containers. It also streamlines policy management with custom consent category mapping and dynamically updates reporting in real time without requiring new site audits.

Unique Consent Condition Auditing

Tag Inspector now supports the auditing of each individual consent condition available to a user on a website.

Verify consent behavior for tags loading when a user selects consent for “only performance”, “only strictly necessary”, etc. embedded within all Tag Inspector reporting.

Support to Audit Tags Loaded Through Server-side GTM

A user can now add an ssGTM configuration ID to a Site to be audited resulting in tags loading through the ssGTM container viewable in reporting and auditable for consent compliance.

Explicit Verification of Full CMP Coverage on a Site

A Consent Management Platform being present on all pages of a website is critical for effective consent compliance.

Tag Inspector now explicitly verifies and surfaces the status of CMP coverage in each single site audit report run for each Site in an account.

Dynamically Updating Aggregate Reporting

Violations reporting now dynamically updates following any change to tag categorization or modifications to a tag consent policy.

Understand the current state of compliance based upon the most recent audits run on each website in light of consent policy changes immediately without the need to run a new audit.

Custom Consent Category Mapping

Updates to support the automatic mapping of account-level tag categorization down to policy-level standards.

Allows for automatic mapping to simplify the policy definition process and customization based upon jurisdiction-level requirements.

Light Mode in Reporting

Tag Inspector’s user interface is now customizable between light and dark mode, with defaults following the defaults set in the user’s operating system.

Author

  • Lucas Long is co-author of the Amazon best-selling book, Crawl, Walk, Run: Becoming a Privacy-Centric Marketing Organization. He is also the Director of Privacy Strategy at InfoTrust, working with global organizations at the intersection of digital strategy, privacy regulations, and technical data collection architecture. Through these efforts, Lucas helps companies understand their limitations for data enablement due to privacy challenges and design optimal ways to accomplish core use cases in a compliant manner.

    When not discussing the intricacies of GDPR and cookie laws with clients, Lucas enjoys traveling and exploring new cultures, one bite at a time. Based in Barcelona, he is also a presenter, featured at industry events organized by Google, the Digital Analytics Association, the American Marketing Association, and the Journal of Applied Marketing Analytics.

    View all posts Head of Global Privacy Strategy
Last Updated: September 9, 2026

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