This week's review of ad fraud and quality in the digital advertising space.
Limpid announces business partnership with Pixalate as an additional security measure, protecting Limpid’s advertisers from fraudulent traffic schemes across channels and formats.
“APAC advertisers are under attack from ad fraud schemes across all devices, with an increased focus on emerging channels like Connected TV (CTV),” said Alvin Ling, Pixalate’s Director of Customer Success, APAC. “Pixalate holds Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation across 20+ measurement areas, including 12 distinct Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) measurement metrics, to guard against fraudsters’ favorite attacks, and we applaud Limpid for working diligently to improve quality across their platform as ad fraud risks continue to grow in the region.”
"Facebook Inc. announced it is pausing work on rolling out an Instagram Kids site after the social networking company came under criticism for its negative effect on children, especially on teenage girls," according to AdAge.
"The Federal Trade Commission is considering strengthening online privacy protections, including for children, in an effort to bypass legislative logjams in Congress," informs the Wall Street Journal.
Google will no longer use last-click attribution as the default conversion model in Ads. "The change will mean that, going forward, the default attribution method for any conversion touchpoint – a new product purchase page, app install campaign, display ad landing page – will fall into what Google calls “data-driven attribution,” its algorithmic solution that assigns credit to different impressions over time," informs AdExchanger.
Pixalate recently released a report about potentially dangerous permissions in apps from the Google Play Store. Along with the report, we published blogs with some insights regarding potentially the most concerning privacy issues dangerous permissions could cause:
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