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Integral Ad Science broke a streak of punishing quarterly earnings reports for public ad tech companies when it announced better-than-expected Q4 results on Friday morning.

DoubleVerify reported its Q1 earnings on Tuesday and guess which topics didn’t come up, even once? The Forbes-run MFA subdomain, DV’s apparent misreporting of X’s brand safety rates and not a single tough question about measurement gaps.

Having a profile on a dating app doesn’t mean that you’re dating. It just means you’re out there. The same could be said for many (of the many) cookieless identifiers on the scene. They’ve been deployed by publishers – the code is on the page – but they aren’t getting picked up in the bidstream.

More than a decade ago, a tiny group of vendors emerged to help answer a single marketer question: Did my ad run when and where the publisher promised? Since then the verification category has steadily expanded into adjacent areas. Was my ad viewable by the end user? Was it served to a live human? And […]

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 […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Danilo Tauro, global director of media, tech and data at Procter & Gamble. Is advertising waste being driven by lack of technology, incentives, capabilities or all of the above? To […]

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, […]

Inc. Magazine released its annual 500/5000 revenue survey on Wednesday and the theme is: There is no theme. At least not from an ad tech perspective in the Advertising & Marketing category. (Click here to read coverage of last year’s list.) “The list does feel a little random,” said Melissa Parrish, VP and research director […]

Mobile viewability is going through its awkward adolescent phase. There’s no official standard yet – the Media Rating Council (MRC) is planning to circulate a document for public comment in the next few weeks – and vendors are still tinkering with their methods. Which can lead to confusion around implementation, measurement-induced headaches and wonky reporting. “Everyone is […]

Brands need to feel confident that their ads are being seen – and “because we said so” is not an acceptable answer. That’s why Yahoo is bringing third-party verification tags from comScore, DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, Moat and several others onto its owned-and-operated properties and onto third-party sites within the Yahoo network. Yahoo is slated to […]

Advertising intelligence provider Integral Ad Science has acquired Simplytics, a UK-based mobile ad server and analytics platform. The deal brings mobile verification capabilities for in-app and mobile Web campaigns to Integral’s existing verification services for video and display ads. “We’re very excited because Simplytics is complementary to what we do and once we add our fraud […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Alex Calic, Chief Revenue Officer at The Media Trust. Based on the velocity of articles written on the topic last year, “viewable impressions” has displaced “ad verification” as the […]

Mpire Corp.’s AdXpose, an ad verification technology and media company, announced that its verification technology has been certified by the popular advertiser ad serving platform, DART, which is owned by Google. Read more on MediaPost. President and CRO of AdXpose, Kirby Winfield, discussed the DART certification and what it means. AdExchanger.com: Can you discuss the […]

Jim Ewel is CEO of Adometry, which provides verification and effectiveness metrics products for display advertising. AdExchanger.com: What gave the team the idea for Adometry?  And, what problem is Adometry solving? JE: Our founders, John Dietz and Rob Perrier, had built a large-scale ad server for a major publisher.  They understood that the kind of […]

DoubleVerify, an online advertising verification company, announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series B financing from Institutional Venture Partners. Read the release. Oren Netzer, CEO of DoubleVerify, discussed the raise and the company’s plans. AdExchanger.com: What were the key characteristics you were searching for in a funding partner? ON: We wanted an […]

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Alex Baydin, Founder and CEO of PerformLine, an online performance marketing company. AdExchanger.com: Please discuss your background. What key learning’s did you bring forward from Epic Advertising where you were GM to PerformLine? AB: I have been in Online Advertising for the past ten (10) years, focusing mainly on advertising sales, business development, and product […]

Mpire announced new ad blocking capabilities for its AdXpose product where, “AdXpose analyzes the content on publisher sites in real-time, and cross-references it with the prescribed rules set by the advertiser.” If the content is acceptable, the ad is served. If not, it’s not. Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to Mpire CEO Kirby Winfield about […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Partners Swarm ScanScout In a release, video ad network ScanScout said its partnering with a gaggle of “premium” brands including Warner Brothers, Warner Music and Marvel Comics to provide its video ad network services. Read the release. On Beet.tv, CEO Bill Day talks “engagement” […]

Mpire announced in a release today that over the course of four months, WPP Group agency, MediaCom, implemented Mpire’s AdXpose technology for a consumer electronics firm resulting in what it says was significant performance improvement by, among other things, “removing underperforming sites from the network buy.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com followed up with Mpire CEO […]

LucidMedia announced that it is making its display advertising auditing services free to clients. Read the release. Ajay Sravanapudi, President and CEO of LucidMedia, spoke with AdExchanger.com about the implications of the new pricing. AdExchanger.com: Has the digital media auditing space become commodotized? Offering services for free may indicate as much, after all. AS: No, […]

Adam Goldberg is Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder of ClearSaleing. AdExchanger.com: What trends are you seeing in your ClearSaleing clients in 2009? Can you describe momentum for ClearSaleing this year? AG: Our clients are not reducing their online ad spend—in fact, it’s increasing in many cases. ClearSaleing is helping clients tie their ad buys to […]