Posts filed under: Ad Fraud

  • Platforms That Fail to Prioritize Privacy Will Pay the Price
It looks like we’ve reached a tipping point in online and mobile privacy: Regulators are itching to step in — not just in Europe , either—and users want action. Facebook may be dominating the headlines, but it certainly isn’t the...
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  • GroupM predict global online media consumption will overtake linear TV for the first time in 2018
The latest ‘State of Digital ’ report to be compiled by GroupM establishes 2018 as a landmark year in the advance of the sector amidst a prediction that consumption of online media will overtake linear TV for the first time....
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Consumer-goods giant returns to Google site after a year away P&G will only run ads on videos it has reviewed and approved Procter & Gamble Co. , one of world’s biggest advertisers, kept its ads off YouTube for more than...
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  • How Data Creates Transparency In The Ad Supply Chain
When one thinks of organized criminal activity, it is often unsavory activities involving trafficking of some form, but fraudulent web traffic is rapidly growing as a high reward, low risk, low effort criminal pursuit. Last year, the World Federation of...
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  • Nearly half of advertisers suspicious of publishers not using ads.txt, study finds
Dive Brief: Nearly two out of three advertisers think ads.txt is a step in the right direction in reducing ad fraud, according to a new study by Oath made available to Marketing Dive. More than 50% of advertisers said ads.txt...
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  • Ads.txt has gained adoption, but 19 percent of advertisers still haven’t heard of it
It has been nearly a year since the Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab introduced ads.txt as a way to ward off certain forms of programmatic ad fraud. In that time, publisher adoption and advertiser enforcement of ads.txt have increased ....
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Brand safety means different things to different brands. For some, even the most kamikaze stunts can be brand safe, but you will never know unless you have a real conversation with the marketer, and you won’t be able to act...
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With the news that global ad spend growth is predicted to slow in 2018 , it’s clear to see that the impact of transparency concerns are continuing to rise. This trend is being driven, in part, by the efforts of...
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  • The End Of An Era; Say Goodbye To OpenRTB, It's Time To Burn It Down
OpenRTB was once a gamechanger. Introduced nearly eight years ago, the protocol was meant to enable real-time bidding (RTB) by providing open standards between buyers and sellers of advertising. But transparency, fraud and brand safety issues have become so prevalent...
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  • The creator of Javascript is using blockchain to save the internet from ads
This article is part of our series “ Blockchain beyond Bitcoin “. Bitcoin is the beginning, but it’s far from the end. To help you wrap your head around why, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of blockchain....
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