Pixalate recently released its 2019 App-ads.txt and Ads.txt Trends Report, updating programmatic buyers and sellers on the latest trends around the IAB Tech Lab's initiatives.
According to Pixalate's data, over 182,000 apps had app-ads.txt files at the end of 2019, up from 3,308 at the end of Q1 2019 (when the initiative first launched).
Here are the total number of apps with app-ads.txt files – on iOS and Android combined — as of the last day of each quarter:
This equates to a roughly 5,500% increase in app-ads.txt adoption in 2019.
Pixalate's 2019 App-ads.txt & Ads.txt Report
Pixalate’s 2019 App-ads.txt and Ads.txt Trends Report includes:
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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.”