Oracle announced the discovery of and mitigation steps for “DrainerBot,” a major mobile ad fraud operation distributed through millions of downloads of infected consumer apps. Infected apps can consume more than 10GB of data per month downloading hidden and unseen video ads, potentially costing each device owner a hundred dollars per year or more in […]
Mobiquity Technologies, announced AdCop, the advertising industry’s first transparent ad fraud reporting system to be made available free to brands and marketers as a beta testing program independent from Advangelists. Originally designed as a proprietary Advangelists platform feature, AdCop monitors for programmatic fraud post bid impression. If AdCop suspects fraud, the Advangelists platform renders a blank […]
AdSecure, the ad verification tool used by ad networks, ad operations teams and publishers, announced the addition of Native ad protection to its digital weapons arsenal in order to combat digital threats and malware and safeguard end users when exposed to online advertising. Native ads pose an interesting challenge when it comes to protecting the […]
MoPub announced that they are partnering with two of the industry’s leading MRC-accredited vendors in mobile IVT-management, Pixalate and DoubleVerify. “Partnerships are crucial to the effort. We believe that MRC-accredited vendors like Pixalate and DoubleVerify offer the expertise, technology, data integrity and service needed to help us keep a clean exchange for the trillions of ad requests […]
Total APAC mobile ad fraud is expected to cost advertisers US$56 billion by 2022, up from $19 billion this year, according to a new study by ad fraud specialist TrafficGuard. This was outlined in a new white paper titled “Addressing Ad Fraud through Multipoint Analysis & Machine Learning” which delved into the complexities of ad […]
S4M, Futurs.io, Dentsu Aegis Network’s digital performance agency iProspect, Smart and Mondadori MediaConnect is launching the “Adschain Consortium” to address the persistent fraud in the programmatic supply chain. This ambitious alliance will apply blockchain technology on industry transactions to bring more transparency for all the stakeholders. Online advertising fraud is estimated to cost the industry […]
Cyber Communications Inc., announced cybersecurity company CHEQ as their official partner, offering advertisers and publishers its AI-driven autonomous brand safety solution. Through the partnership with CHEQ, CCI will enable its clients to preemptively tackle brand-safety, ad-fraud and viewability in real-time. CHEQ’s autonomous solution takes brand safety to the next level by enabling advertisers to proactively prevent negative […]
Ad fraud is a monumental challenge facing the entire digital advertising industry. According to Forrester about $7.4 billion was wasted on display ads in 2016, a figure set to rise to $10.9 billion by 2021. Juniper Research reported that total revenue loss owing to advertising fraud will reach a staggering $44 billion in 2022, rising […]
Unilever wants social-media influencers to give themselves an authenticity check. The big-spending advertiser behind such well-pitched products as Dove, Lipton’s tea and Hellman’s mayonnaise intends to announce June 18 that it will no longer work with influencers who buy followers – the coin of the realm in social media. “At Unilever, we believe influencers are an […]
DoubleVerify, the leading independent provider of digital media measurement software, released its 2018 Global Insights Report providing a market-by-market benchmark of the challenges faced by global marketers and an outlook on the current and future state of media quality on the internet. The new 2018 data indicates that brand safety violations have risen by 25 percent in […]