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Programmatic Ad Seller Misrepresentation Report - Web

Pixalate's Q3 2024 Programmatic Ad Seller Misrepresentation Report for Websites uses SCO data to examine unauthorized sellers in the open programmatic advertising supply chain across desktop and mobile web.

Key Findings:

  • Unauthorized “direct” sellers: 5% of all desktop and mobile web open programmatic ad impressions are sold by unauthorized “direct” sellers
  • Higher Ad Fraud Rates: 94% higher IVT, including ad fraud, in traffic with an unauthorized direct seller
  • Unauthorized direct sellers and resellers: 11% of all SCOs across desktop and mobile web fail Pixalate verification due to an unauthorized seller (including direct or resellers)

Our analysis includes a set of SCO verification checks as defined by Pixalate, utilizing IAB Tech Lab’s ads.txt/app-ads.txt standards, along with SCO data from the OpenRTB bid stream to evaluate the accuracy of declared supply paths in the ad bid stream

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Per the MRC, “'Fraud' is not intended to represent fraud as defined in various laws, statutes and ordinances or as conventionally used in U.S. Court or other legal proceedings, but rather a custom definition strictly for advertising measurement purposes. Also per the MRC, “‘Invalid Traffic’ is defined generally as traffic that does not meet certain ad serving quality or completeness criteria, or otherwise does not represent legitimate ad traffic that should be included in measurement counts. Among the reasons why ad traffic may be deemed invalid is it is a result of non-human traffic (spiders, bots, etc.), or activity designed to produce fraudulent traffic.”

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