DoubleVerify Unveils Industry-First Holistic MFA Protection Solution
The renowned software platform for measuring digital media, DoubleVerify has recently extended its brand safety and sustainability offering. It attempts to make it possible for advertisers to track and get rid of MFA (Made for Advertising) websites. DV has advanced a precise definition of MFA with this breakthrough. Moreover, it helps marketers recognize and successfully handle MFA-driven challenges. To analyze MFA, DoubleVerify has unveiled its patented process that uniquely fuses human and artificial intelligence auditing. In their brand safety and suitability profile, customers may now easily enable DV’s solutions for measurement and monitoring. DV Authentic Brand Suitability will also be activated to avoid pre-bids.
Concerns about MFA websites
An ANA report was published in June amid worries that AI techniques were hastening the creation of offensive online content. It claimed that 21% (one-fifth) of all programmatic impressions were derived from MFA websites. Moreover, it attracted 15% of total ad expenditure. Additionally, DV carried out its independent investigation, wherein it was discovered that some MFA sites generate hundreds of millions of impressions each month.
Due to the lack of a standardized definition of what MFA is, it has led to misunderstandings. MFA content is often misconstrued as solely bot-driven and fraudulent traffic. But it only represents a small percentage of MFA traffic. Due to their false identities, these websites are excluded from standard fraud controls. On the other side, legitimate human users drive a majority of MFA traffic. They usually are directed to paid channels like social media and content recommendation engines.
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DV’s definition of MFA sites
According to DoubleVerify, MFA sites are the ones whose single purpose is to deliver ads. One can analyze several factors to locate these sites. The factors are set across ad monetization activities, ad traffic sources, and approaches to content creation. Particularly, these websites have the following characteristics.
- Significant ad density compared to the page’s actual content; frequent ad refreshes to optimize yield each visit.
- With hardly any traffic originating from organic sources, monetization is primarily dependent on paid traffic channels – for instance native and social.
- Constant scrolling and browsing through the same domain’s content
- Content that has been literally copied across several websites and is occasionally generated automatically by generative AI.
The approach that DV uses makes it possible to prevent false positives and miscategorization. It accomplishes this by enabling a thorough and complex level of testing. For instance, a website may have a sizable amount of ads while also receiving a lot of direct and search-enabled traffic. The publisher would not fit DV’s definition of an MFA website in this case. DV has mostly given its clients the capability to access MFA sites upon request. Beginning September 20, 2023, DV’s offering will be extended in beta to all advertisers. The solution will continue to change and advance over successive development cycles.
Here’s what they said
Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify stated,
DV continues to lead with customer-driven innovation that helps advertisers tackle the rapidly evolving challenges in digital advertising that impact media quality and performance. With the rise of AI tools that can rapidly spawn MFA sites, DV’s own AI tech is crucial in empowering global brands to identify, measure and avoid problematic MFA content in real time and ultimately drive better marketing outcomes.
Jack Smith, CPO at DoubleVerify added,
The term ‘Made for Advertising’ has created significant confusion within the industry. As an industry-leading measurement and verification provider, we believe it’s crucial to lead by example and offer clarity. Our goal is to safeguard advertiser investments and support high-quality publishers who are seeking to monetize legitimate content.
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Quotient Enhances DOOH Targeting with Brand Safety Capability
Quotient, a primary provider of digital promotions and media technologies has launched Brand Safety, a novel functionality within Quotient’s Digital Out-Of-Home (DOOH) platform. It empowers advertisers to successfully make sure their inventory is close to attractions, establishments, or companies that support their brand and message. With its unprecedented credibility and openness, this feature gives brands unrivalled power. It offers clients the reassurance that their DOOH adverts are displayed in secure and brand-safe settings. This development is able to dramatically increase the campaign’s efficacy by ensuring the integrity of its real-world promotions.
Quotient’s Brand Safety Feature
Historically, brands were hesitant to use DOOH advertising because it was difficult to implement well-known digital guidelines for campaign delivery and measurement. With Brand Safety from Quotient, brand marketers can design and execute highly targeted, successful DOOH campaigns. It can be used both independently and in conjunction with multichannel ad buys. This priceless feature increases not only the level of goodwill among brands and their customers but also the campaign’s overall effectiveness.
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What’s in it for brands and advertisers?
DOOH advertising includes digital commercials. They are seen on display in public places like grocery stores, clinics, gyms, and pubs. It has become a really powerful medium. According to Quotient, DOOH advertising is highly viewable, contextually significant, brand-safe, and close to the point of sale. As a result, it has evolved into an indispensable channel for advertisers looking to attract their target markets. Displaying brand content in excellent settings that work well against brand objectives is crucial. With this new feature, advertisers will have more control over the placement of their DOOH ads across all inventory types. Additionally, it guarantees the caliber and applicability of advertising and successfully amplifies the brand’s message for the specified target market.
DOOH Landscape
Thanks to social media, out-of-home (OOH) advertising is on the rise once again. With billboards making up more than a third of all ad spending, it is still largely a traditional media. Digital formats are thus gaining popularity, such as in-office video panels and electronic displays. Recent years have seen a significant expansion of the DOOH market, especially in terms of developments in programmatic activation and assessment. Insider Intelligence projects that US DOOH advertising will account for 36.2% of OOH ad sales this year and over 41% by 2026.
Here’s what they said
Norm Chait, RVP of DOOH at Quotient stated in the press release:
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Brand Safety, yet another testament to Quotient’s expertise and unwavering commitment to providing innovative tools to ad buyers across the customer journey. With this valuable addition to our technology platform, we can now confidently reach consumers in brand-safe environments, which can lead to more impactful results for our valued clients.
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Mondelez international returns to X with brand safety committment
The first company to stop running advertisements on Twitter, now X which Elon Musk acquired, was Mondelez International, the company that makes the well-known Oreo cookies. Since then, X has been working nonstop for 9 months to provide an environment that is focused on creativity, exciting, and beneficial for advertisers. Thus, Mondelez made the decision to come back to the platform in May. The text-based platform strives to strike a balance between the right to free speech and platform security in order to entice brands to participate voluntarily in the debate.
The social media platform is extending its industry-leading collaborations and capabilities of Adjacency Controls to help all marketers achieve their unique sustainability needs in a more ascended and automated means. These new capabilities will work together to unlock an expanded level of adjacency protection for advertisers on X.
X has modified its brand safety features in response to worries about dwindling ad revenue. The platform is extending its current partnership with Integral Ad Science (IAS), an ad verification business, to provide US advertisers with “premium, vetted inventory.” Brands may now optimize their ads on X, and it wants to expand these solutions internationally. The platform is confident that these solutions will give marketers the assurance that their advertisements will run alongside relevant content and adhere to GARM standards.
Jon Halvorson, SVP of consumer experiences at Mondelez International, said in a statement,
X has made tremendous progress in building brand safety tools that empower advertisers to leverage the power of their platform while curating the context in which the ads appear. Adding pre-bid meets a critical commitment made by their leadership and we are eager to implement this new feature going forward.
WHY MONDELEZ PULLED OUT FROM TWITTER?
Mondelez International, the parent company for Cadbury and Milka chocolates had pulled out its ads from Twitter last year, just after Elon Musk had acquired. Reuters had reported that CEO Dirk Van de Put had said, “What we’ve seen recently since the change on Twitter has been announced, is the amount of hate speech increase significantly. We felt there is a risk our advertising would appear next to the wrong messages.”
The CEO made his comment as the acquisition phase was in a state of upheaval, with large layoffs and advertisers cutting back on spending prompting questions about content moderation. Apart from Mondelez, other businesses that have also removed their advertisements from the site included Audi, Pfizer, General Mills, and United Airlines.
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X’s BRAND SAFETY UPDATES
For a long time, advertisers had expressed worries about brand safety and content management on X. X created a pre-bid adjacency for marketers to overcome these problems. Since then, more than 1,900 international advertisers have tried the technology, which has a 99% efficacy rate for avoiding the proximity of dangerous information. Coca-Cola, Visa, Marriott, Mondelez, Taco Bell, Expedia, Amazon, and Applebee are a few of these brands.
Sensitivity Setting, a system that enables advertisers to coordinate their brand messaging with content was also introduced, according to X. The goal will be to bridge the delicate balance between accessibility and relevance and satisfy the brand’s sensitivity needs. Currently, the tool has two settings levels: Standard and Conservative. While the latter is for brands with rigorous sensitive limits, the former is for brands with a moderate sensitive threshold.
Image credit- X
For any campaign, Sensitivity Settings will use machine learning to modify the adjacency to various degrees of material in accordance with a brand’s sensitivity level. Brands are free to choose the setting they feel would best serve their unique campaign objectives. The automatic industry-standard blocklist that X is developing attempts to shield advertising from showing up next to dangerous phrases in the Home Timeline.
The platform has made significant strides in terms of brand safety and appropriateness because of X’s ongoing efforts to develop novel solutions. It pledges to give advertisers more power and accountability. It also claims to continuously construct new marketing capabilities. Its commitment to brand safety underlines the company’s dedication to fostering a responsible and secure advertising ecosystem, setting a positive precedent for industry standards.
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Double Verify Extends LinkedIn Partnership To Launch Brand Safety Hub
Double Verify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics expands collaboration with LinkedIn to launch DV Custom Contextual and DV Authentic Brand Suitability on LinkedIn Audience Network. Together, they will provide mutual clients with scalable solutions to reach audiences, in contextually appropriate and relevant environments, at the right time – to help maximize campaign performance.
The two solutions empower advertisers to ensure their campaign impressions are delivered on inventory that aligns with their brand safety, suitability, and contextual needs. This DoubleVerify expansion is part of LinkedIn‘s plan to roll out a safety hub for its LinkedIn Audience Network. It also includes a list of publishers, as well as the ability to upload and apply block lists and custom-allow lists.
Credit: LinkedIn
How will the advertisers benefit?
DV Authentic Brand Suitability goes beyond standard categories and keyword blocklists and offers customized protection to advertisers to avoid unsafe and unsuitable content before placing a bid. DV Custom Contextual provides advertisers with a scalable solution to reach the right audiences, at the right time – driving outcomes for brands.
Credit: LinkedIn
As part of this release, the company builds on its previous work with LinkedIn to provide brand safety floors and invalid traffic protections on LinkedIn Audience Network. It ensures advertisers are protected from universally unsafe content. Through the Brand Safety Hub, LinkedIn aims to help marketers boost their advertising campaigns on the LinkedIn Audience Network, while also allowing them to customize their brand safety guidelines.
And what they said
Steven Woolway, EVP, Business Development at DoubleVerify said,
“Our work with LinkedIn underscores DV’s continued leadership position in optimizing media quality and performance holistically across the digital media landscape providing our advertisers the confidence to invest across channels and environments.”
“LinkedIn is a leading platform for B2B digital advertising, and we are thrilled to collaborate to support brand suitability and contextual targeting.”
Adweek reported that LinkedIn vice president of product Abhishek Shrivastava said in a statement,
“Through our work with DoubleVerify, we’re continuing to empower our customers to scale their marketing across our network of publishers to reach and engage a professional audience. The evolution of our collaboration reinforces our goal to foster a safe and trusted ecosystem with added controls to help customers drive better value from their campaigns.”
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Integral Ad Science Expands Brand Safety Partnership With TikTok
Integral Ad Science and TikTok, a global leader in digital media quality, has expanded their existing partnership with TikTok. In addition to the IAS, Brand Safety Solution launched last September, IAS will now be able to measure viewability, invalid traffic (IVT), and app-level brand safety, allowing brands and agencies globally to effectively monitor the quality of their media buys on TikTok’s platform.
The company said advertisers will now be able to verify the performance of their TikTok campaigns, with trusted third-party measurement powered by the Open Measurement Software Development Kit (OM SDK). The OM SDK is governed by IAB and designed to facilitate transparent third-party viewability and verification measurement for ads served to mobile apps and open web environments.
Additionally, IAS will provide advertisers with granular campaign performance reporting 24 x 7 via its ‘Signal UI’, which will assist them to take immediate action and remain informed on campaign performance in real-time. Third-party verification is key to ensuring advertisers are getting the most out of their campaigns. This facilitates planning, KPIs, and measurement.
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And That’s What They Said
Lisa Utzschneider, CEO, IAS said,
“We are excited to offer marketers an increasingly comprehensive set of IAS Media Quality Solutions to manage their advertising campaigns on TikTok. It is more important than ever for marketers to engage with users on social platforms and ensure that their ads appear next to brand safe & suitable content on a global scale. We are thrilled to deliver a holistic solution on TikTok and provide new levels of transparency and precision for these campaigns.”
Melissa Yang, Head of Ecosystem Partnerships, TikTok added,
“We’re thrilled to build on our partnership with IAS and introduce new solutions that give brands the confidence to scale their businesses and audiences on TikTok. Through this expansion, brands and advertisers around the world will have access to IAS viewability and invalid traffic measurement tools to monitor the quality of their campaigns on our platform. We’re excited to see how this will usher in new levels of transparency and success for our clients.”
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Meta Taps Zefr For Brand Suitability And Improve Advertising Safety Tools
Meta partners with brand suitability provider Zefr to enable advertisers to ensure that their promotions don’t appear alongside potentially offensive material on the Facebook Feed. It will provide more options for brands to manage their ad placements across their apps.
Why Zefr?
Meta stated in their blog that after an extensive vetting process, they collaborated with Zefr together to develop a solution to measure and verify the suitability of adjacent content to ads in Feed, with the goal of starting with small-scale testing in the third quarter of this year and moving to limited availability in the fourth quarter. Rich Raddon, co-founder and co-CEO of Zefr said in a statement,
“The future of the ad industry is moving towards transparent and accurate measurement for brand safety and suitability in complex environments, based on the GARM [Global Alliance for Responsible Media] standards. Zefr is thrilled to partner with Meta to develop the first suitability measurement product for Feed, giving advertisers deeper transparency into their content adjacencies across Meta.”
Additionally, Zefr has also collaborated with TikTok and YouTube on similar initiatives, leveraging advanced AI systems along with human reviews to provide customized brand safety solutions and more control to ad partners.
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How will it benefit the advertisers?
The main aim is to give Meta advertisers a better understanding of the types of content that appear adjacent to their ads, helping them make informed decisions to reach their marketing goals. As the integration with Zefr reaches limited availability, Meta will work toward having the brand suitability integration opportunity open to all badged partners.
The move is part of Meta’s answer to longstanding demands from the advertising industry, which has advocated for brands to be given greater control over where their ads appear online. Advertisers have demanded tools to help them customize and prevent ads from appearing adjacent to content the brand deems unsuitable, such as politics or news about death or violence.
Meta has also been working closely with GARM as it develops these controls, which will be aligned with the GARM Suitability Framework. Rob Rakowitz, GARM Initiative Lead, World Federation of Advertisers welcomed the partnership saying it will provide the advertisers the much-needed post-campaign transparency which is difficult to measure sometime.
“In our quest to eliminate harmful content from ad-supported digital media, we need controls on where ads appear and measurement to verify the accuracy of those placements.”
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The social media giant has started to build controls for the Facebook and Instagram feeds primarily for English-speaking markets first. Next year, the company plans to expand the placement coverage to include other languages, Stories, Reels, Video Feeds, Instagram Explore, and other surfaces across Facebook and Instagram. Meta vice president, client council, and industry trade relations Samantha Stetson said,
“Providing advertisers control over the content their ads appear next to is incredibly important work for us, and to our commitment to the industry via GARM. We’re excited with the progress we are making toward building content- based controls for Feed and are excited to start development with Zefr on third-party Feed verification. It will take time, but it’s the right work to do.”
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Tremor International Partners With Double Verify For Authentic Brand Suitability
Tremor International expands its partnership with Double Verify (DV), a leading software platform for digital measurement, data, and analytics for Authentic Brand Suitability Solution. Tremor is a leader in video and Connected TV (“CTV”) advertising. The company offers advertisers and publishers a comprehensive technology platform that combines Tremor Video and Unruly SSPs to reach relevant audiences and maximize the yield on digital advertising inventory.
How Does Authentic Brand Suitability Help?
Tremor International (Tremor) aims to provide the most robust programmatic brand safety solutions in the market. Authentic Brand Suitability helps to achieve this objective by offering advanced brand safety, suitability, and fraud solutions to support advertiser campaign performance across devices, including CTV.
Tremor Video and Unruly’s advertising clients can leverage this pre-bid targeting solution to implement centralized brand safety/suitability and fraud controls across all campaigns and devices. Further, advertisers within the platform will now have access to enhanced security levels, leading to increased operating efficiency and improved campaign performance.
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Steven Woolway, EVP of Business Development at DoubleVerify said,
“Driving better advertiser outcomes, whether across CTV, desktop or mobile video, starts with ensuring that inventory is optimized per the marketer’s specific suitability demands.”
He further commented.
“Authentic Brand Suitability helps accomplish this objective, by offering the most advanced brand safety, suitability, and fraud solution available in the market today. DV’s enhanced integration with Tremor International reinforces our commitment to help advertisers ensure the protection of their brand equity, wherever and however they buy digital media.”
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Key Benefits Of Authentic Brand Suitability
In the past, advertisers have used adblocking but that only protected advertisers from having their ads appear in unsuitable environments, and however, nonetheless, this incurs costs.
Authentic Brand Suitability drives better advertiser outcomes and this is how it does,
- The alignment of pre-and post-bid settings drastically reduces the wasted cost of media through the avoidance of pre-bid scenarios.
- DV data suggest a 26% lower block rate for programmatic media properties supporting Authentic Brand Suitability, which safeguards their brand equity from safety and suitability violations.
Other significant benefits for the Tremor and Unruly advertising clients include:
Customizable Controls: A complete set of customization options enable users to build a single targeting profile that combines 90+ brand safety and suitability categories (the broadest available), keyword avoidances, language avoidances, site/app IVT threshold avoidances, and custom-built brand categories.
Operational Efficiency: Using the industry’s first unified service and analytics reporting platform, DV PinnacleR, to ensure consistent, automatic updates to post-bid measurement settings and pre-bid targeting across numerous DSPs.
In this announcement, DV and Tremor International are expanding on their existing partnership. Recently, Tremor Video and Unruly were awarded DV’s CTV Targeting Certification, demonstrating their ability to avoid fraud on CTV devices with DV’s pre-bid app.
Jessica La Rosa, Vice President, Partnerships & Data Operations at Tremor International said,
“As long-time leaders in the video space, we pride ourselves on the ability to empower our clients with innovative solutions, helping them maximize the effectiveness of their advertising initiatives.”
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Taboola And Double Verify Partners For Brand Safety
Taboola, the world leader in powering recommendations for the open web, is used by digital properties like websites, devices, and apps announced a partnership with Double Verify on brand safety and suitability targeting controls.
As a result of the announcement, Taboola’s advertiser partners such as performance marketers, media agencies, and brands, will receive access to Double Verify’s standard brand safety and suitability targeting technology, allowing for control over the quality of where their ads are being placed in. Adam Singolda, CEO and founder of Taboola said,
“Many of today’s advertisers require a nuanced approach to brand safety and our reach, coupled with DoubleVerify’s ability to offer different tiers of safety and suitability within different categories, is uniquely valuable,”
He further added,
“With shifts in how consumers view ads online and the growth of ad spend after last year, advertisers deserve the peace of mind that their ads are running alongside the content they prefer. DoubleVerify is an innovator in the realm of advertiser trust, and as we bolster our suite of brand safety offerings, partnering with them was a natural fit.”
How will this partnership benefit the advertising partners?
– The settings can be customized by advertisers based on DV’s oncological expertise and industry-leading brand safety and suitability controls.
– DV’s sophisticated approach to content classification allows advertisers to carefully balance brand reputation, protection, and scale while achieving their marketing objectives across their Taboola campaigns.
-Advertisers can make use of DV’s safety and suitability segments while taking advantage of the variety of outcome-based buying options, including CPC and vCPM, available in the Taboola Ads console.
-DV’s pre-bid brand safety and suitability segments are available directly within the Taboola Ads console when planning and executing campaigns.
Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify said,
“DoubleVerify’s brand safety and suitability solution enables brands to align their advertising dollars with suitable content, which improves performance,”
“Extending turnkey access to our solutions across Taboola’s environment will help global brands build confidence in their media placements and achieve a higher rate of contextual content suitability. This, in turn, helps create a stronger digital ecosystem where advertisers are able to support premium publisher inventory while safeguarding brand equity.”
Double Verify Launches Authentic Brand Safety Targeting on Google’s DV360.
Double Verify (“DV”) announced its Authentic Brand Safety targeting solution on Google marketing demand-side platform(DSP), Google Display and Video 360.
The leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics said Authentic Brand Safety enables consistent activation of brand suitability criteria in a pre-bid setting, helping advertisers reduce block rates and enhance return on their digital investment. Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify said,
“With our proprietary Authentic Brand Safety solution, global brands can create a single quality profile that is centrally deployed, managed and optimized – ensuring seamless brand protection, while making execution far more efficient.”
Seamless Protection: The Authentic Brand Safety targeting provides comprehensive brand safety solutions to advertisers. It supports more than 75 avoidance categories and over 44 languages. It addresses brand-specific concerns through exclusion/inclusion lists and customization options.
Superior Performance: Double Verify’s solution ensures the advertiser’s brand safety criteria are applied before media is purchased. This will allow advertisers to allocate their spend towards qualified impressions only and protect them in an environment where blocking is not supported like for example, VAST Video. Ultimately, this alignment will let advertisers optimize for authentic impressions, boost performance, reduce post bid reconciliation, and make good-processes.
Streamlined Operations: Double Verify’s unified service and performance platform, DV Pinnacle core benefit is reducing administrative time and complexity associated with setup, deployment, and maintenance of brand safety controls across an advertiser’s multiple buying platforms and campaigns. It also enables advertisers to create a single profile that drives automatic, consistent updates to both pre-bid targeting and post-bid measurement criteria across DSPs.
In addition to Display & Video 360, DoubleVerify’s Authentic Brand Safety is available on DSPs and buying platforms such as Adelphic, Adobe, Amobee, Basis by Centro, Beeswax, MediaMath, The Trade Desk, Verizon Media and Xandr. Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify also said in a statement,
“At a time when it has never been more important for brands to align their values with their advertising buys, we are excited to bring the power of Authentic Brand Safety to Display & Video 360.”
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Taboola And IAS Partners To Launch Industry-First New Pre-Bid Brand Safety Solution
Taboola, the world’s leading discovery and native advertising platform announced a partnership with Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, to introduce an industry-first pre-bid brand safety solution for performance advertisers.
The partnership will allow advertisers to directly deploy the pre-bid brand safety technology within Taboola’s native advertising platform. It will also help customers to place relevant content in front of Taboola’s large audience base of 1.4 billion people each month.
Adam Singolda, founder and CEO at Taboola said,
“Now Taboola’s large number of global advertisers can feel secure knowing that their content will only appear in locations that have been deemed appropriate by IAS technology. IAS has proven to be a brand safety innovator and a key strategic partner for Taboola. By extending our partnership and introducing this first-to-market offering, we’re giving advertisers yet another way to benefit from Taboola’s audience scale and ultimately ensure ROI.”
Pre-Bid Brand Safety: What It Means For Marketers?
IAS scores web pages across a range of suitability parameters and blocks brand ads from unsafe pages based on the brand’s own risk threshold.
In the press release, Taboola described the partnership as an industry first and, Taboola’s Corporate Communications Leader Dave Struzzi told MarchTech Today,
“IAS works with a variety of publishers, platforms, and advertisers, but to date, IAS pre-bid brand safety solutions are typically found in traditional demand side platforms. This integration is the first of its kind within a closed native advertising platform which operates on a CPC bidding model.”
Taboola has worked with IAS for several years to build new products and optimize their publisher inventory. The new product development will bring the power of IAS’ proprietary ad verification technology to Taboola Ads Console that gives advertisers the control to opt-in to pre-bid brand safety targeting on any campaign.
Craig Ziegler, VP Product Management, IAS said,
“Performance advertisers don’t have to sacrifice brand safety to obtain the scale they’re looking for.”
“We’re giving advertisers an intuitive way to ensure their ad placements are brand safe directly within Taboola’s technology as they begin a campaign.”
Why We Care:
Many advertisers make sure about brand safety by purchasing ad inventory from premium publishers. The trade-off is scale and exposure is restricted through selective buying. The latest integration will allow marketers and advertisers to leverage programmatic native advertising while ensuring brand safety.
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