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Integral Ad Science (IAS) beat its earnings and revenue estimates for the second quarter despite belt-tightening among advertisers and fallout from the recent TrueView scandal.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]

Discrepancies across the various attempts to quantify the issue with YouTube TrueView have just raised more questions about measurement failures.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.”  […]

Integral Ad Science added a new capability to measure brand safety and suitability for off-YouTube sites and apps through YouTube’s ad network.

Ad Fontes plans to spend its newfound capital on hiring media bias researchers, developing an AI model for assessing media quality and enhancing its rating tools for foreign-language content.

On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform Optable announced $20 million in Series A funding, with participation from Hearst Ventures, Brightspark Ventures, Desjardins Capital, Deloitte Ventures and asterX.

Publishers are fed up with brand safety and verification vendors using crawlers to scrape their sites for contextual signals, then using those signals to sell contextual ad products.

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is withstanding the macroeconomic headwinds by homing in on video ad measurement.

Buyers already have access to the same information from the same trusted third-parties that publishers use to define Contextual Categories. So why bother?

In 2022, top players in digital advertising finally started taking gaming seriously, and the groundwork was laid for programmatic in-game advertising to grow thanks to a long overdue update to the IAB’s and MRC’s in-game ad standards. The scene is also set for in-game advertising to expand into console gaming, and we might even see the debut of the first sell-side platform dedicated to gaming.

Musk’s promises to overhaul Twitter’s content moderation and user verification policies have caused brands and agencies to rethink their budgetary commitments to the platform. Plus, Musk’s seemingly disingenuous tone shift on advertising and his tweeting of fake news may make brands more inclined to pull budgets from a platform that was never seen as a must-buy anyway.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Losing My Religion “I have to ask you about advertising. Otherwise, I won’t be able to leave this room alive.” That was Ben Swinburne, head of media industry research at Morgan Stanley, speaking to Netflix CFO Spence Neumann at the bank’s Tech, Media […]

The biggest reason marketers aren’t shifting their linear TV dollars to CTV is the lack of visibility into where their ads are going, said Lisa Utzschneider, CEO of Integral Ad Science. In attempt to bridge that gap, IAS is tying its contextual tech into its CTV strategy, which started maturing after the company bought the video ad server Publica last summer.

Integral Ad Science is chasing two shiny trends – contextual targeting and connected TV – as the company charts a course in digital measurement and ad verification. The growth plan has generated, well, growth. IAS earned $323.5 million last year, up by more than a third from 2020, the company reported in its quarterly earnings report on Thursday. Though Integral’s net loss grew year-over-year as well, from $32 million to $52 million.

Integral Ad Science CEO Lisa Utzschneider, Magnite CEO Michael Barrett and DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski talked about their experience heading public companies at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview Tuesday, in a panel moderated by LUMA CEO and founder Terence Kawaja.

The ad verification space is full of green fields to expand into. Case in point: 2022 immediately kicked off with an acquisition by IAS and $100 million in funding for Human. Plus, interoperability and first-party data come together in NBCU’s first-party data platform.

As the ad tech industry matures, vendor types historically focused on other markets are expanding to meet its needs. Media and advertising, for example, is now Snowflake’s biggest business vertical, and payment solutions provider FastPay is helping publishers and ad tech companies manage reconciliation and accounting gaps between when ad campaigns are served and advertisers […]

The “big two” in brand safety both went public this year. Over the next two weeks, AdExchanger will publish podcast interviews with both companies’ CEOs: Lisa Utzschneider of Integral Ad Science and Mark Zagorski of DoubleVerify. Utzschneider is up first. We kick off with a discussion of IAS’s acquisition of Publica, an ad server and […]

Ad verification and measurement provider Integral Ad Science held its first earnings call after going public just over a month ago. Revenue increased 55% to $75.1 million year-over-year. That growth was largely fueled by programmatic revenue, which jumped 94% to $31.8 million compared to the same period last year. Programmatic accounts for 42% of total Q2 revenue, as […]

Can YouTube Make Shorts Happen? YouTube launched one of its biggest brand campaigns ever this week to promote Shorts, The Drum reports. YouTube Shorts, the aptly named short-form video format (i.e., a TikTok clone), have taken over consumption on the platform. Though that’s largely because YouTube is pulling all the levers it can to make […]

Ad verification and measurement provider Integral Ad Science went public Wednesday after filing an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month. The New York-based company began trading on the Nasdaq at $18 per share – above the initial $15 to $17 price range – raising $270 million through the sale of 15 million […]

Ad verification company DoubleVerify went public on Wednesday, a month after it filed an S-1, and a week after it set the terms for the IPO, which had it valued at $4.2 billion. However, the company’s stock opened at $35 a share ­– nearly 30% above its IPO price – valuing the company at more […]

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Since Lisa Utzschneider was hired as CEO of Integral Ad Science in January, almost the entire senior leadership team has turned over, a sign of swift change at the Vista Equity Partners-owned ad tech firm. The acquisition closed last July. Eighteen C-suite, SVP and VP-level executives have been hired since the acquisition and Utzschneider’s hiring, […]

It’s been almost a year since Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in ad verification company Integral Ad Science. In the wake of the acquisition, the company appointed a new CEO, Lisa Utzschneider, to lead the company. In this episode, Utzschneider discusses her 20 years in senior revenue roles at Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo, […]

Vista Equity Partners’ plan to buy a majority stake in Integral Ad Science – valuing the company at $820 million, according to AdExchanger sources, or up to $850 million, according to Axios – underscores the ongoing importance of ad verification and the pressure these vendors face to grow their product offering to remain competitive. “There’s […]

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in ad verification vendor Integral Ad Science. Terms were not disclosed. IAS detects ad fraud by scanning billions of insertions from both buy and sell sides, searching for anomalies. It also assesses whether individual impressions are fraudulent or not. Industry insiders had wondered about […]

The odds are stacked against ad tech companies that go public. But Integral Ad Science CEO Scott Knoll wants to buck that trend. Among a trio of leading verification companies, it’s the only one left that hasn’t taken an exit. Oracle bought Moat in April 2017 and bolted on brand-safety tool Grapeshot a year later […]