TripleLift and White Ops partner to fight fraud in native advertising

TripleLift and White Ops partner to fight fraud in native advertising

Native advertising platform TripleLift has announced a partnership with White Ops to become the first native exchange to offer third-party verified pre-bid fraud prevention across its entire inventory. By leveraging White Ops’ pre-bid prevention product, MediaGuard, TripleLift will now prevent fraudulent traffic across its platform, ultimately providing TripleLift clients with cleaner inventory. “In today’s ad ecosystem […]

AdColony receives TAG certification for fighting digital ad fraud; commitment to quality

AdColony receives TAG certification for fighting digital ad fraud; commitment to quality

AdColony, the ad quality video marketplace, today announced the company has been granted the coveted Certified Against Fraud certification by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). The certification reaffirms AdColony’s continuing efforts to directly combat ad fraud and offer increased transparency for its advertising and publishing partners. “Advertisers deserve to know that the campaign reporting they […]

Advertisers invest $63bn in programmatic buying but industry concerns loom large, according to WARC

Advertisers invest $63bn in programmatic buying but industry concerns loom large, according to WARC

WARC, the international authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report, digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Threats to the digital advertising ecosystem is the focus of the latest report. WARC estimates that $63.4bn was spent on programmatic advertising worldwide last year, but […]

Google killed 3.2 billion ‘bad ads’ in 2017, up 88% from 2016

Google killed 3.2 billion ‘bad ads’ in 2017, up 88% from 2016

Google has shared that the company’s ads team killed 3.2 billion so-called “bad ads” in 2017, an increase of 88 percent from the previous year, when the company removed 1.7 billion “bad ads.” Put another way, Google took down more than 100 bad ads per second last year. “Bad ads” consist of any advertising that […]

Facebook is banning all cryptocurrency and ICO ads

Facebook is banning all cryptocurrency and ICO ads

Facebook has made the move to ban any ‘misleading’ advertising related to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) in a bid to protect users from the rise in scams and fraud that cryptocurrencies have come along with. Under the newly-created policy, any ads “that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading […]

How to combat Mobile Device Fraud: Is Blockchain the answer?

How to combat Mobile Device Fraud: Is Blockchain the answer?

Identifying mobile fraud in the mobile ecosystem can be a challenge for advertisers and Agencies alike. We are seeing increasingly more new fraud methods designed to exploit the system, such as Install Fraud and Click Fraud. DeviceID Reset Fraud has recently been launched by mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform AppsFlyer to give the advertiser […]

Advertisers losing $1.1 billion a year to redirected links, according to GeoEdge

Advertisers losing $1.1 billion a year to redirected links, according to GeoEdge

Multiple hacker networks are involved in auto-redirect attacks that cost advertisers and publishers $1.13 billion annually. The finding is the basis for a report by GeoEdge, an ad verification company, based on the analysis of 650 million impressions. The mechanisms of attack include mobile click fraud, tech support claims, and malicious app installations. The umbrella […]

Yeahmobi Partners with Forensiq to Bolster Ad Fraud Detection, Purify Web Traffic

Yeahmobi Partners with Forensiq to Bolster Ad Fraud Detection, Purify Web Traffic

Forensiq, a leader in ad fraud detection and prevention, announced its partnership with Yeahmobi, to help curb the effect of advertising fraud across its mobile ad platform. Yeahmobi is an intelligent mobile advertising platform helping organisations reach global growth. While Yeahmobi initially had the capabilities to detect invalid web traffic, it was in need of […]

New Forrester and AppsFlyer Study Reveals Enterprise Marketers Significantly Exposed to Mobile Fraud

New Forrester and AppsFlyer Study Reveals Enterprise Marketers Significantly Exposed to Mobile Fraud

In a recent commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of AppsFlyer this November, marketers were surveyed about their top challenges and goals for mobile marketing in the upcoming year. In this survey, Forrester polled 250 marketers whose companies spend at least $1 million a month on digital advertising. The survey also dove deep into the issue of […]