malvertising

OpenAI may be opening up to the idea of serving ads. Plus, Television for toddlers is quietly powering streaming media ratings.

The prevalence of malvertising – the practice of serving ads infected with malware – is both a fact and a growing problem. But how exactly do watchdogs prove that a nation state is supporting malvertising?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Leave Those Kids Alone Adalytics is taking a second swing at Google. On Thursday, it released its second report about YouTube this summer, this one alleging that the tech giant is targeting ads to content made for kids. Adalytics claims that the installation […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a test case for how ad tech can be used as an instrument of psychological warfare. But some ad tech companies are fighting back with their own AI-powered tools.

Whenever there’s a sociopolitical or economic crisis, the lowest rung of online marketers finds a way to prey on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. The pending overturn of Roe v. Wade is no different – it’s creating a new class of online audiences that are potential prey, and publishers can stand to take more steps to filter out misleading ads (like donation scams and brand infringement) that harvest and sell users’ personal information.

Brand advertisers want the chance to engage with consumers in the metaverse. But platforms and publisher reactions are more … “meh.” The media industry should be cleaning up our current digital environments before “mucking up the metaverse,” writes Gavin Dunaway, product marketing lead at The Media Trust.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. iO-SOS More than 70% of Apple devices have upgraded to the latest operating system, with the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy. And now mobile advertisers and ad tech are starting to feel the pain, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev Memo. The loudest […]

When people join a browser-based video conference call, their top worry is usually whether their hair looks OK. But there’s a bigger concern lurking. WebRTC, the open source technology used by browsers and apps to enable real-time communications over the internet, is being exploited to camouflage the dissemination of malware-infected ads. Programmatic exchanges appear to […]

Malvertising – or malicious online ads that spread code to commit ad fraud or access a user’s data – might not induce the same industry-wide concern of viewability and fraud, but it’s still an issue. An IAB report from November estimated the cost of malvertising attacks to be more than $200 million – And that’s […]

Publisher yield optimizer, Rubicon Project, announced that it has acquired SiteScout, a company whose technology looks to “prevent malicious ads and other dangerous Web content from reaching customers.” Read more. Craig Roah, COO and Founder of The Rubicon Project, talked about the acquisition and how it will be integrated into the company. AdExchanger.com: Why buy […]