The Pixalate Publisher Trust Index is the ad industry’s first quality ranking system for mobile and Connected TV (CTV) apps. In this blog, you will find insights about the top 10 Google Play Store mobile apps with the highest overall quality for programmatic advertisers in April 2021 for North America.
Quality is determined based on Pixalate’s analysis of a variety of metrics, including ad fraud, popularity, brand safety, and more. Learn about our methodology here and create a free account to see the full Pixalate Top 100™ rankings.
Pixalate rated nearly 400,000 apps available in the Google Play Store in metrics including invalid traffic (IVT), brand safety, popularity, viewability, and more. Here are the top 10 performers in North America, from April 2021:
Weather by WeatherBug is the winner of the April 2021 edition of the Pixalate Top 100™ for Google Play Store in North America. Weather Bug is one of the three apps achieving the highest grades in all measured metrics, along with The Weather Channel and MyFitnessPal.
Apps from the top 10 have presented versatility in all metrics, but only three obtained the highest marks in all categories. The remaining seven could still improve in categories such as IVT, brand safety, or viewability.
The Pixalate Top 100™ rankings do not end with the top 10. Moving a little lower in the rankings, advertisers can find valuable ad inventory as well. In the top 100, 46 apps obtain the highest marks in metrics related to quality and safety, including IVT, brand safety, and viewability.
Furthermore, it is worth checking apps’ producers. Rovio Entertainment, Zynga, Voodoo, Playgendary Limited are among developers with multiple apps in the Pixalate Top 100™ for Google Play Store in North America in April 2021.
About Pixalate’s Publisher Trust Index
Pixalate’s Publisher Trust Index is a global approach to quality measurement and monthly rankings of the world’s mobile and Connected TV (CTV) apps, designed to bring unprecedented transparency to the programmatic advertising ecosystem.
While traditional ranking systems use a quantitative-based approach, Pixalate uses proprietary algorithms to measure a range of quality metrics, including brand safety, invalid traffic (IVT, or ad fraud), programmatic reach, viewability, and more. The Pixalate Top 100™ rankings span 35+ different app categories, including IAB 2.2 taxonomies, across four regions: North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
The content of this blog, and the Publisher Trust Indexes (collectively, the “Indexes”), reflect Pixalate’s opinions with respect to factors that Pixalate believes may be useful to the digital media industry. The Indexes examine programmatic advertising activity on mobile apps and Connected TV (CTV) apps (collectively, the “apps”). As cited in the Indexes and referenced in the Indexes’ key findings reproduced herein, the ratings and rankings in the Indexes are based on a number of metrics (e.g., “Brand Safety”) and Pixalate’s opinions regarding the relative performance of each app publisher with respect to the metrics. The data is derived from buy-side, predominantly open auction, programmatic advertising transactions, as measured by Pixalate. The Indexes examine global advertising activity across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, respectively, as well as programmatic advertising activity within discrete app categories. Any insights shared are grounded in Pixalate’s proprietary technology and analytics, which Pixalate is continuously evaluating and updating. Any references to outside sources in the Indexes and herein should not be construed as endorsements. Pixalate’s opinions are just that, opinions, which means that they are neither facts nor guarantees; and neither this press release nor the Indexes are intended to impugn the standing or reputation of any person, entity or app.
