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Human Merges With PerimeterX To Grow Its Ecommerce And Retail Fraud Detection Business

The ad fraud and verification company Human announced on Wednesday that it has merged with PerimeterX, a cybersecurity and identity fraud detection service. The two startups were introduced by investors and board members familiar with both their businesses, according to Human CEO and Co-Founder Tamer Hassan. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We were… Continue reading »
by James Hercher // July 27th, 2022 //
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EDO Raises $80 Million To Chase Nielsen; TV Nets Out The “Stress” In Stress-Tested

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Royal Rumble Of Ratings The TV analytics company EDO, co-founded by Edward Norton, raised $80 million at a $200 million valuation.  The actor’s involvement stemmed from Norton’s experience with streaming production, since there are no obvious benchmarks like box office or DVD… Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // April 8th, 2022 //
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The Big Story: Ad Verification Turns Up The Heat

Ad verification sprinted into 2022 with several notable deals. Human raised $100 million, and Integral Ad Science (IAS) snapped up French contextual advertising company Context, both during the first week of the year. There’s a theme behind this activity: Both IAS and DoubleVerify went public last year, putting the ad verification space in the spotlight.… Continue reading »
by Sarah Sluis // January 6th, 2022 //
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Big News In Ad Fraud Land, As Human Raises $100 Million And IAS Makes Another Acquisition

2021 was a scorching year for the ad fraud and verification category – and 2022 is keeping up the pace. Last year, both Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify IPO’d and went on to acquire multiple startups apiece off the back of their multibillion-dollar market caps. Human, formerly White Ops, meanwhile, was acquired by three investment… Continue reading »
by James Hercher // January 4th, 2022 //
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MMI Says It Uncovered CTV Fraud Costing Advertisers $20 Million Per Month

Ad measurement and verification company Method Media Intelligence uncovered a connected TV fraud scheme that it says rakes in $10 million a month in ad revenue. The scheme, dubbed “RapidFire,” feeds counterfeit bid requests into ad exchanges running open auctions for CTV inventory. Like many multimillion video fraud scams, RapidFire targets server-side ad insertion (SSAI)… Continue reading »
by Tony Rifilato // August 27th, 2021 //
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After Methbot Conviction, Ad Industry Zeroes In On CTV As Fraud Hotspot

Following this month’s conviction of Aleksandr Zhukov – the ringleader of an ad fraud scam called Methbot that bilked digital advertisers out of more than $7 million five years ago – industry leaders said that such scams are becoming more frequent in connected TV (CTV) and are often tied to larger cybercrime operations. Leaders from… Continue reading »
by Tony Rifilato // June 14th, 2021 //
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Conviction Of Russian Ad Fraudster Sets Precedent. Will It Make Scammers Think Twice?

Five years after a Russian ad fraud scheme that bilked digital advertisers out of more than $7 million was uncovered, self-proclaimed “King of Fraud” Aleksandr Zhukov was convicted last week by a federal jury in Brooklyn. Zhukov, 41, was arrested in Bulgaria in 2018 and extradited to the United States in 2019 for running a… Continue reading »
by Tony Rifilato // June 2nd, 2021 //
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An Open Letter to the Gods of CTV

This article is sponsored by HUMAN. To Whom it May Concern: First of all, let us say that we’re big fans of your work. That thing you did earlier this spring with the WandaVision ending? Awesome. And we’re still talking about Orange is the New Black, and that’s been over for ages (at least in… Continue reading »
by AdExchanger Content Studio // May 18th, 2021 //
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Buyers.json And DemandChain Object Now Available For Public Comment; White Ops Becomes Human

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Specifications The IAB Tech Lab is rolling out new specs, this time for the buy-side, around transparency and brand safety: big topics of conversation these days. IAB has released two new technology standards — buyers.json and DemandChain Object — that are open for… Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // March 31st, 2021 //
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