This week's review of ad fraud and quality in the digital advertising space.
"Connected TVs and devices such as Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV have seen an explosion in frequency of use," wrote Variety. "As in any successful medium, with that success come scams and fraudulent schemes designed to pirate legitimate revenue. CTV has seen an increasing number of these within the last two years, as the fledgling industry is yet to have a standardized format for buying inventory."
"Asserting that the programmatic advertising marketplace is 'riddled with material issues including thin transparency, fractured accountability, and mind-numbing complexity,' the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) recently announced a request-for-proposal for a consultant to study and come up with recommendations for improving it," reported MediaPost.
"Digital ad tech companies are making their play to control advertising on CTV," wrote AdExchanger. "[A]s in the web’s early days, programmatic demand for TV inventory is generating sky-high CPMs and attracting fraud."
"Google has failed to stop 'shyster' websites advertising on its search engine, despite promising to fix the problem, the BBC has found," wrote BBC. "[T]rying to catch rule-breakers is a game of 'cat and mouse,' as the companies can change their tactics and reappear," wrote BBC.
"With last week’s launch of iOS 14.5, iPhone and iPad users now have a say in whether their apps can track them. And so far, the results are sobering for the companies doing the tracking," wrote Fast Company, noting that new estimates say 11% of users worldwide and 4% of U.S. users are allowing themselves to be tracked.
