{"id":8895,"date":"2017-09-28T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.adpushup.com\/blog\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2024-09-20T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:21:25","slug":"what-publishers-need-to-know-about-ad-verification-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-publishers-need-to-know-about-ad-verification-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"What Publishers Need to Know About Ad Verification Companies","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cat\u2019s out of the bag. Brands now know that a huge chunk of their ad dollars are wasted on ads that never appear before a human. That\u2019s part of the reason why the biggest media buyers are insisting on MRC (Media Ratings Council) accredited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/ad-fraud-detection-companies\/\">ad verification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those not yet familiar with this bit of ad tech, IAB has a definition (edited slightly for clarity):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ad verification is a service that offers technology to ensure (buyers) that ads appear on intended sites and reach the targeted audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ad verification is supposed to be integrated with all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/the-best-ad-networks-for-publishers\/\">ad networks<\/a>, exchanges, SSPs, basically anyone who sells advertising space online, to provide a safeguard for brands, advertisers, and agencies that buy it.<\/p>\n<p>IAB guidelines specify five key areas covered by ad verification vendors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Site Context<\/li>\n<li>Geo-Targeting<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/how-to-find-the-best-ad-placement-on-your-website\/\">Ad Placement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Competitive Separation<\/li>\n<li>Fraud Detection: Click fraud and impression fraud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some vendors will also bundle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/active-view-how-google-measures-ad-viewability\/\">ad viewability<\/a> and audience measurement services with ad verification, for good measure. <em>But why are they necessary?<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents:<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-publishers-need-to-know-about-ad-verification-companies\/#Advertisers_Dont_Trust_Ad_Tech_and_Theyre_Right\" >Advertisers Don&#8217;t Trust Ad Tech and They\u2019re Right<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-publishers-need-to-know-about-ad-verification-companies\/#Ad_Verification_and_Ad_Tech_are_Still_at_Odds\" >Ad Verification and Ad Tech are Still at Odds<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-publishers-need-to-know-about-ad-verification-companies\/#Are_Publishers_Accountable_for_Fake_Traffic\" >Are Publishers Accountable for Fake Traffic?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Advertisers_Dont_Trust_Ad_Tech_and_Theyre_Right\"><\/span>Advertisers Don&#8217;t Trust Ad Tech and They\u2019re Right<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you keep up with ad tech and martech news, you probably remember endless stories in March this year, denouncing YouTube for \u201cenabling the spread of hate speech\/content\u201d by letting ads appear next to it. YouTube almost faced a full-scale advertising boycott and lost millions of dollars in revenue as the episode played out.<\/p>\n<p>But since YouTube is a platform with over a billion users worldwide, advertisers weren\u2019t going to wash their hands off it entirely. Most advertisers returned, but only after Google made assurances, changed policies, and put in some ad hoc advertiser controls to prevent this from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>For a lot of YouTube content creators, that meant a sharp decline in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, in December last year, the Methbot report from WhiteOps detailed how an advanced bot was stealing millions of dollars per day of ad spend from various exchanges by spoofing premium domains and generating fake clicks from high-value video inventory.<\/p>\n<p>Further back in 2016, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/advertisers-might-finally-leverage-facebook-wont-matter\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook took flack for vastly misreporting<\/a> \u201caverage video watch time\u201d, a non-billable metric, on its platform. The ensuing outrage was enough to bring down the wrath of ANA (Association of National Advertisers) on it.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst all the madness came Marc Pritchard\u2019s seething remarks at IAB annual leadership summit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regardless of how much we respect the people from whom we buy our media, we need an objective, impartial judge to perform the measurement. Too many players are self reporting, and incredibly, we as clients, are still tolerating it, accepting excuses like \u201cwe have a walled garden\u201d or \u201ctechnology won\u2019t allow it\u201d. This is like letting a fox guard the henhouse. It\u2019s a bad idea putting someone in charge of a job where there\u2019s a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer, Proctor &amp; Gamble<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result, every major media seller today has had to give way before advertiser demand for third-party, MRC accredited ad verification: &nbsp;Twitter adopted Moat and Integral Ad Science (IAS) for viewability and verification. YouTube began working with IAS to offer more brand-safety tools to marketers. Both YouTube and Facebook opened themselves to MRC audits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-is-the-trustworthy-accountability-group-tag\/\">Trustworthy Accountability Group<\/a> (TAG) began making rounds to enforce compliance by auditing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/top-ad-exchanges-for-publishers\/\">ad exchanges<\/a> and branding them as \u201c<em>certified against fraud<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But cynical among the industry think it\u2019s a dog-and-pony show, more for providing assurances than to really curb ad fraud.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ad_Verification_and_Ad_Tech_are_Still_at_Odds\"><\/span>Ad Verification and Ad Tech are Still at Odds<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is a self-serving industry, and &#8216;fraud-watch&#8217; is a <em>massive&nbsp;<\/em>opportunity. Conversations revolved around ad fraud at Dmexco, as Seb Joseph reports on&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/overheard-dmexco-ad-tech-vendors-selling-fear\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Digiday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you look at these viewability and ad fraud technologies here at the conference, they\u2019re doing great business, but their models aren\u2019t just about fighting fraud; they\u2019re selling fear because if they don\u2019t, they can\u2019t sell the tech to the SSPs or DSPs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ubiquity of fraud itself is a point of contention among ad verification companies and fraud researchers \/ consultants; each exaggerating or downplaying the threat to suit their interests.<\/p>\n<p>For instance: Some ad fraud researchers claim that as much as eighty percent of bot traffic still manages to pass by undetected, all through the simple matter of a verification vendor account falling into wrong hands.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After getting access to the verification company\u2019s data and dashboard, the traffic resellers continuously test different tactics until they notice what trips a verification company\u2019s filter. Once a tactic \u2014 like forcing a bot to execute a precise combination of mouse movements and clicks \u2014 is shown to work, the reseller uses the tactic on the traffic it sells on the open market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Augustine Fou, ad fraud researcher (via Digiday)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ad verification companies claim the consultants are peddling fear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fraud researchers &nbsp;have their own incentive to make it seem like fraud is the biggest problem out there. It is a big problem, but in some cases it can be blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Amit Joshi, director of product and data science, Forensiq<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Agencies can&#8217;t curb fraud (or pretend that they have their hands clean), as one Redditor explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The robotic traffic sellers are incentivized to send through traffic with high CTRs and high viewability rates, so optimizing towards those metrics (and not on actual business outcomes, like sales) means that your chances of buying fraud increases. Many agencies want to make as much of a profit on the execution as possible while trying to make themselves look good, and vanity metrics such as CTR and VTR are a way to do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ad networks \/ exchanges trying to prevent&nbsp;bot traffic from getting into the system (by partnering up with verification companies), don&#8217;t address the underlying problem, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/programmatic-audio-google-appnexus-bring-ads-to-playlist-near-you\/\">AppNexus<\/a> CEO Brian O&#8217;Kelley explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, it tells the bad actors who\u2019s running the Turing test [fraud detection], and thus which interrogator [verification tech] they&#8217;ll have to trick to get paid. I\u2019m willing to bet that search results for \u201cWhite Ops safe traffic\u201d increase dramatically over the next couple of months after the recent Trade Desk (TTD) partnership announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it provides an easy scapegoat. I can\u2019t tell you how many publishers have said to me, &#8220;<em>It\u2019s not my fault I have bad traffic; I use vendor X to detect it.<\/em>\u201d It is your fault if you have bad traffic! Somebody in your supply chain is buying bad traffic, and you\u2019re hoping to get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bokonads.com\/ending-ad-fraud-distributed-and-punitive\/\" rel=\"noopener\">(Source)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So while the ad tech companies play hot-potato with blame,&nbsp;it will eventually come down to the media-seller.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Are_Publishers_Accountable_for_Fake_Traffic\"><\/span>Are Publishers Accountable for Fake Traffic?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Short answer: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Kelley explains how most of the fraudulent traffic ends up inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/programmatic-advertising\/\">programmatic<\/a> supply chain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since there&#8217;s a strong incentive for publishers to buy cheap traffic, there&#8217;s a significant market for bad actors to generate traffic and sell it to them\u2014as long as they can avoid detection.&nbsp;When a bad actor wants to make a bunch of money, they generate traffic and sell it to a publisher, creating ad impressions that flow through the digital advertising ecosystem, eventually soaking up money from well-meaning marketers. Traffic that looks human and gets past detection systems will drive revenue for the publisher&nbsp;and&nbsp;the bad actor. This is a fundamental failure of the supply chain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MRC has standardized some fraud detection methods but left enough wiggle-room for verification companies&nbsp;to keep proprietary detection-tech under wraps. Theoretically, it&#8217;s great\u2014it gives everyone a competitive edge while keeping bad actors in the dark about advanced bot detection methods. Realistically, it&#8217;s only added hassle for the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>With increasing number of demand partners (SSPs \/ ad networks \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/top-ad-exchanges-for-publishers\/\">ad exchanges<\/a>) partnering up with verification companies of their choice to curb fraud, signing up to them becomes a landmine:&nbsp;<strong>What one vendor (and the demand platforms which use it to monitor fraud) categorizes as IVT may not raise flags on another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And IVT is one <em>type; <\/em>even good, clean publishers could end up in muddy waters thanks to ad fraud in the form of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-is-domain-spoofing\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>domain spoofing<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEvery time a perpetrator fakes a domain, the market is hit with fake metrics. That dilutes a publisher\u2019s brand in the industry as advertisers and platforms see a mix of metrics that don\u2019t accurately represent a publisher\u2019s inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Manny Puentes, CEO of Rebel AI (via AdExchanger)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, a publisher will end up paying out of their pocket to integrate with an ad verification partner, resolve the issue, and keep their IVT (Invalid Traffic) from going above a certain acceptable percentage.<\/p>\n<p>To fight back,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/explainer-what-is-ads-txt\/\" rel=\"noopener\">adopt Ads.txt<\/a>: An imperfect measure without mass adoption, ads.txt still works to protect your domain from spoofing and unauthorized resellers by taking away the monetary incentive from them. Exchanges and networks are already enforcing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/implement-ads-txt\/\">ads.txt<\/a> by asking their publisher partners to place it on their site.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, as we covered in our&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/publishers-guide-to-ad-fraud-prevention-in-2017\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Publishers\u2019 Guide to Ad Fraud Prevention<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Check the verification vendor\u2019s MRC accreditation<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/what-is-media-rating-council\/\">MRC<\/a> has standardized some practices when it comes to detecting most general and some sophisticated bot traffic. All accredited companies will follow those rules.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monitor (or avoid) sourced traffic<\/strong>: It\u2019s found to be three times more likely to contain bots. Brian O&#8217;Kelley, advises publishers to think carefully before answering this: &#8220;<em>Are you willing to stake your business on this traffic source (since if it\u2019s sending fraudulent traffic, we&nbsp;[demand sources]&nbsp;<\/em>will<em>&nbsp;terminate&nbsp;you)<\/em>?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adpushup.com\/blog\/direct-ad-sales-how-and-why-to-sell-your-ad-inventory-directly\/\" rel=\"noopener\">direct sales<\/a><\/strong>: Fewer touchpoints between media buyer and seller significantly reduces the chance of someone else stealing your revenue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buyers want to pay for human audiences, not bot generated traffic. They want to pay for impressions that have a chance to be seen (i.e., viewable). They want to prevent their ads from appearing next to content which will harm their brand image (brand-safety). They want standard metrics and unified data across platforms to draw actionable insights from.<\/p>\n<p>The longer ad fraud stays under spotlight, the higher will be the value of clean inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cat\u2019s out of the bag. Brands now know that a huge chunk of their ad dollars are wasted on ads that never appear before a human. That\u2019s part of the reason why the biggest media buyers are insisting on MRC (Media Ratings Council) accredited ad verification. 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