March 5, 2018 — By: Joe Mandese, MediaPost
"Ads.txt has reached another critical mass milestone, penetrating more than 50% of the top 5,000 programmatic sites, according to the latest analysis released by Pixalate," wrote MediaPost.
Now that over half of the top publishers are using ads.txt, MediaPost ponders: "[I]t might be time to shift the focus from sites that have adopted the IAB-led anti-fraud standard to those that have not."
You can find Pixalate's original blog post on the ads.txt breakthrough here.
You can download the full list of sites with ads.txt here.
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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.”