Brand Safety Is Dead—It’s Time to Rally Behind Contextual Alignment
Brand safety, as we know it, is dead. Not because brands have stopped caring about where their ads appear, but because the current framework has failed them.
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Bad Actors
Bigoted Spam Messages Highlight Ad Tech’s Role in Bigotry, Fraud, and Data Leakage
Bad actors aren't as sinister as bigotry, but they played a part in the hateful texts sent to marginalized groups after the presidential elections. Data brokers often compile information by harvesting web browsing habits, social media profiles, and commercial activity, merging it with demographic and contact information and bad actors…
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Merry-Go-Round Scheme Conceals Ads for Consumers and Brands
HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence issued a Security Threat Alert this morning, detailing a scheme it calls Merry-Go-Round. At its peak, Merry-Go-Round reached 782 million fraudulent bid requests daily, cleverly evading detection through a sophisticated cloaking mechanism.
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Legit Black-owned Publishers Are Being Labeled MFA Sites, but Maybe There’s a Solution
The MFA site reformation in ad tech is well underway. Still, some Black-owned publishers are being labeled as MFA sites by the industry in their attempts to reach advertisers’ quotas and serve quality ads to consumers. Is a tiered approach the answer to this problem?
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