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Got Funds? DoubleVerify Taps $33 Million

Written on
August 30th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Despite the recent acquisitions of AdXpose and Adometry, independent ad verification companies trudge on — with more investor cash! DoubleVerify just closed a $33 million series C round of funding led by later-stage investors JMI Equity and Institutional Venture Partners, bringing the “media verification and compliance” company’s funding total [...] more...

Rocket Fuel Brand Shield Offers Three Layers of Protection

Written on
August 15th 2011
Author
Bryn Durgin

ADOTAS – Now introducing the Real-Time Brand Safety Shield, powered by Rocket Fuel. Offering brand advertisers and their agencies three layers of defense, Rocket Fuel blocks bad sites and pages before serving an ad on them. This triple protection technology is to brand advertisers and their agencies what Gillette Odor [...] more...

Adometry Discovers Massive Cross-Channel Ad Hijacking Scam

Written on
June 7th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Just when you thought your ads were safe, Adometry (formerly traffic monitor Click Forensics before a merger with ad verifier Adometry) has discovered a sophisticated new kind of click fraud that effects video, display and search ads — in fact, it’s the first attack the company has seen that co-ordinates [...] more...

DoubleVerify’s BrandShield Pinpoints Ad Blocking to the Page Level

Written on
May 31st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Verification mainstay DoubleVerify is taking ad blocking down to the page BrandShield 2.0, which the company claims can see through multiple levels of i-frames to identify ad placement 96% of the time. The tool is available for marketers and can be incorporated by ad networks, DSPs and [...] more...

Mpire Goes Mobile With AdXpose

Written on
March 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Everybody in digital advertising is going mobile, and the ad verifiers don’t want to be left behind. Mpire announced has introduced in beta reporting on mobile ad compliance to its AdXpose ad verification technology and analytics suite. Users will be able to view metrics like placement, impressions, geography, demographic, brand [...] more...

Click Forensics Takes Adometry’s Name With Its Tech

Written on
March 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Traffic monitor Click Forensics and ad verifier Adometry are looking to be the talk of the online advertising space with their nontraditional integration — can you believe the acquirer is taking the acquiree’s name? Heavens to Betsy! Click Forensics has bought Adometry and the conjoined company will go by Adometry. Originally focused [...] more...

Policing the Industry for Profit

Written on
February 26th 2011
Author
Scott Spaulding

ADOTAS – Well, we seem to be about to do what we said we wouldn’t do: add another intermediary cost to the value chain when there is no value being added. I’m talking specifically about paid services to allegedly certify that we’re doing something we’re already doing: looking after our [...] more...

Mpire Survey Finds Ad Verification Good for Industry

Written on
December 9th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – When ZEDO integrated Mpire’s AdXpose into its ad network, I asked Ryan Polley, AdXpose senior vice president of strategic development, how he felt about ad networks always talkin’ smack about ad verifiers, and he surprised me by answering, “Can you blame them?” “Agencies and networks and publishers are [...] more...

Adometry Branches Into Pub Tag Management

Written on
November 10th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Tags! Is there anything in the display industry more exciting besides… Well, everything? But while tag talk tends to induce yawning, its serious business. During its early trials with new tag management system TagScan, Adometry — which provides ad verification and campaign effectiveness services to players across the [...] more...

AdSafe Partners With AdMeld to Verify Before the Bid

Written on
November 4th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – While competitor Mpire has been locking in deals with ad networks and exchanges, ad verifier AdSafe Media has journeyed to the tech end of the supply side and partnered with revenue optimizer AdMeld. AdSafe’s publisher content rating data will be integrated into the billions of real-time-bidding auctions processed [...] more...



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