In this article written exclusively for ExchangeWire, Matt McLaughlin (pictured below), COO of DoubleVerify, responds to concerns over the firm's use of "clouds" in the aim of maintaining brand safety and negating advertising fraud. At DoubleVerify, a key component of our [...]

AdColony, the in-app marketplace for brands, announced today that the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) has awarded it the Certified Against Fraud certification for 2020, its third consecutive certification. The certification reaffirms AdColony’s continued efforts to directly combat ad fraud and [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Changing attitudes towards walled gardens vs. open web; record TAG recertifications; Criteo announces new traffic generation solution; M&C [...]

For the third year in a row, Primis, an industry leader in video discovery technology, has officially been awarded recertification of the TAG Certified Against Fraud Seal by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), an advertising industry initiative to fight criminal [...]

In his latest article penned for ExchangeWire, Independent Ad Fraud Researcher Dr. Augustine Fou (pictured below) discusses the risk publishers face by allowing third-party vendors to serve ads into slots on their sites. Would you let someone stick their germ-ridden, muddy [...]

Following the recent news of the 404 bot scheme which purportedly generated fake browser data in order to harvest advertiser media spend, Dr. Augustine Fou, independent ad fraud researcher, writes exclusively for ExchangeWire on the potential limitations of fraud filtering [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: IAS Threat Lab calls for industry to update ads.txt files; 24sata and Njuskalo select Permutive; Sojern offers new [...]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, today announced a threat alert on 404bot, a growing bot scheme generating fake browser data and creating fabricated URLs in order to steal advertisers’ media spend. The 404bot capitalises on [...]

In-game advertising platform Anzu.io and MRC-accredited fraud-prevention solution Forensiq announced a new partnership representing the first-ever fraud detection collaboration for in-game advertising. This partnership will allow Forensiq to detect and score general invalid traffic (GIVT) and sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) [...]

In this exclusive interview with ExchangeWire, Jake Dubbins, co-chair of the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN), discusses what steps the advertising and marketing technology industries can take to combat ad fraud, foster diversity, and help quell the rising tide of hate [...]