Discover the latest in programmatic research in Pixalate's weekly recap.
Made-for-Advertising (MFA) Benchmarks - Q1 2025
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$778M+ was spent on MFA content in Q1 2025, down from $950M+ in Q4 2024. MFA sites often employ intrusive ad tactics, resulting in poor advertising-to-attention ratios. Pixalate’s Q1 2025 MFA Benchmarks Reports analyze ad trends across MFA websites, mobile apps, and CTV apps.
The reports offer insights into ad spend, invalid traffic, ad fraud, and other key metrics. Unlike crawl-based approaches, which can be gamed, Pixalate identifies MFA content through observed global traffic patterns.
Key Findings (Q1 2025):
- 10% of global open programmatic web ad spend—approximately $701M—went to domains identified as MFAs.
- An estimated $64 million in open programmatic ad spend was directed to MFA mobile apps.
- An estimated $13 million went to MFA CTV apps.
Download the latest reports here:
Connected TV (CTV) Malformed and Fraudulent Bundle IDs Risk Reports - Q1 2025
Only 33% of Bundle IDs across Apple TV traffic used actual App Store IDs in Q1 2025, requiring the remaining traffic to be mapped. The Q1 2025 CTV Malformed and Fraudulent Bundle IDs Risk Reports include a detailed analysis of the global state of non-standard and malformed Bundle IDs in the open programmatic advertising supply chain.
Our team analyzed 2B+ transactions across 14k+ CTV Bundle IDs linked to 6k+ unique CTV apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, and Apple TV traffic in March 2025. Read the latest reports here:
Monthly Delisted Mobile Apps - March 2025
59K apps were delisted from the Apple App Store, 48K were delisted from Google Play. To track monthly delisting trends in March 2025, our team analyzed 7.6M+ apps across the Apple App Store and Google Play. These reports include delisting trends among apps with detected app-ads.txt files, regional and country-specific insights, and more.
Download the March 2025 reports here:
Recent and Upcoming Events
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Pixalate at GTC2025 in Shenzhen, China - April 24-25, 2025
GTC2025 was an incredible success. The energy at the Futian Convention Center was electric, with innovators and industry leaders from around the world gathering together to shape the future of tech. A big thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to chat with the Pixalate team: Alvin Ling, Yee Yin Thor, Alicia Du, Edwin Tan, Caroline Lim, and Summer Zhang. It was a fantastic opportunity to explore how Pixalate is helping partners elevate traffic quality, reduce invalid traffic, and optimize the supply path.
