ad verification

Instead of erasing the idea of brand safety, we should be developing smarter, more nuanced solutions that protect both news publishers and advertisers.

Media governance measures advertisers can put in place to navigate the complexity of brand safety and gain better control of the quality of their media spend.

Made-for-advertising (MFA) sites are roosting in reputable publishers’ subdomains. IDs are declared inconsistently. And the established third-party measurement companies are sitting on the sidelines.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hidden Talent Hollywood creatives are being crushed by studios. They suffered a blow during the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year and they’re about to lose out again due to new performance-based payment policies proposed by streamers. Once upon a time, writers, actors and […]

Integral Ad Science had a decent Q1 – especially in comparison to its direct competitor, DoubleVerify. Even so, frustration with the opacity of third-party brand safety and ad verification providers is increasingly bubbling to the surface.

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Quad Media President Joshua Lowcock asks all ad tech partners for log files as a matter of course. And if a company isn’t willing to hand them over, that’s a sign it’s probably hiding something. Plus: The fallacy of scale and pondering the true role of a third-party verification partner.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. After A Fashion Criteo inked an exclusive deal with British online clothing retailer ASOS to be the ad tech pipes for its advertising business. “The ASOS vision is to become the go-to global destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings and we want to take brands […]

Historically, the technology used to deliver TV programming and advertising to viewers has evolved much faster than the ability to measure it. Now that ads don’t travel with their programming the way they did in the old days of legacy linear, the key to efficiency in cross-platform TV advertising will be measuring ads and content separately, writes Vijoy Gopalakrishnan, Chief Research Officer at iSpot.

It’s been a brutal few years for advertisers trying to drive lift while remaining sensitive to real issues and staying true to the brand. One area that has provided a respite from this noise was confidence in their measurement and verification tactics – but that sense of comfort may be coming to an end, writes Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify.