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The lack of ad compliance and bad quality ads are highly damaging for ad serving platforms. This is where AdSevure comes into play!
Continue readingAdSecure is exhibiting at DMEXCO
DMEXCO is Europe’s leading digital marketing & tech event and AdSecure is exhibiting with our partner, white-label ad serving technology solution EXADS. The show is held in Cologne, Germany from September 21- 22.
Meet with Customer Success Manager Guandi Bai on our stand in the World of Tech Hall 06.1 | Stand E040 at the show.
Why meet with Guandi?
If you are an Ad Network or Publisher, with AdSecure’s 360 degree Malvertising Prevention and Ad Quality Solution you can:
- Eliminate malicious ads
- Detect non-compliant and low quality ads
- Identify unsafe and offensive ad content
- Measure ad performance against industry IAB standards
Our solution helps Publishers keep websites free from malvertising, unsafe and non-compliant ad content. We help Ad Platforms automate compliance tasks and assist teams to drive high quality ad delivery, meet industry standards and be free of malvertising.
Our recent Q1 & Q2 Violations Report shows that 1 in 5 scans reveal 1 violation, and 1 in 80 scans reveal more than 4 violations. The report shows the scale of malvertising and ad quality trends targeted at AdSecure’s client networks which AdSecure detected and stopped from being exposed to end users.
Our Detections
We have over 40 violation detections including:
- User Security Violations such as Adware, Browser Locker, Drive-by Crypto Mining, Malware, Scareware, Ransomware, etc.
- User Experience Violations including Auto-downloads, Back Button Hijack, Landing Page Error, Device Permission Requests, etc
- User Advisory Violations including Heavy Ad, Suspicious TLD, Unsafe Content, IAB Standards, etc
See a full list of our detections here.
Book a Meeting
If you are attending DMEXCO you can find out more by booking a meeting with Guandi here or visit her at our exhibition booth World of Tech Hall 06.1 | Stand E040
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Google plans to kill all your ads if you don’t kill the abusive ones first. Here’s how you do it.
OK, kill might be a touch dramatic. However, if you are a publisher displaying ads on your site, or an ad platform serving ads up, the impact is no joke.
The arrival of Google Chrome 71 in December marks a major escalation in Google’s efforts to stop the negative impact abusive adscan have on users. Chrome 71 will block abusive ads — commonly known as malvertising — so that users cannot be deceived into clicking through and exposing themselves to, at the very least the nuisance of an auto-download or a back button hijack, or on the far more serious end of the spectrum, a ransomware attack or a nasty phishing url.
Publishers impacted
This is a good thing, and Google has made previous attempts to tackle these harmful ads with Chrome 68. The key this time is that for repeat offenders, Google won’t merely block the abusive ads on your publisher site, it will block ALL ads until you can consistently clean up your act and protect your website visitors. Google will give you a 30 day grace period to check your Abusive Experiences Report and take action, but should those actions fall short, or worse not be tackled at all, Google will remove all ads from view.
The potential impact for publishers is immediately clear. Revenue from digital ad streams relied on to cover the costs of producing quality, engaging content will evaporate almost immediately, increasing the pain of keeping users interested and coming back day in and day out. Brand confidence will stumble as well when those advertisers buying ad space realise that money has been wasted and their ads won’t be seen by the customers they want to get in front of. A publisher running afoul of Google’s wrath will quickly find themselves caught in a vicious circle.
For the ad platforms these publishers work with to sell their traffic to the highest bidder there will be an unavoidable knock-on effect. Sites that start cleaning up to ensure their ads don’t suffer from a blanket block will soon realize that certain platforms continually serve up these problem ads and lose confidence in their viability as a partner. An ad platform struggling to deliver clean creatives can find their reputation tarnished before they really know what’s hit them.
Time to clean up
So what can you do to keep your ad creatives clean, user friendly, and visible on Chrome 71? Start by taking the problem seriously. 2018 has been an important year for shining a light on the problem of malicious, deceptive content. Recently, six leading programmatic exchanges came together to develop a set of guiding principles for a safe and transparent programmatic ad market, and chief among them was a commitment to scanning all creatives for malware and other ad quality issues. With Google now taking this major step with the launch of Chrome 71, the challenge of eliminating bad ads can no longer be put on the back burner.
Avoid the trap of thinking your operation is too big to be plagued by efforts to infect the ads you work with. While malware issues might trouble smaller digital publishers more regularly, major players can fall victim to some incredibly sophisticated, painful attacks. When this happens, the impact across the digital ecosystem is all the more severe, and the scope that much greater.
What are you doing now?
Next, take a look at what you’re doing now to tackle the problem. Is it agile enough to catch everything? An in house solution might seem like a suitable stop gap, but a basic tool will never detect every threat, particularly as cyber criminals continue to innovate and develop more sophisticated techniques for delivering dirty ads. This leaves ad operations and compliance teams struggling to keep up and ultimately fighting a battle they can never win. Partnering with a dedicated ad verification solution can ensure teams have the support they need, and are empowered to take decisive, data driven action.
For publishers and ad platforms already working with a trusted partner focused on ad quality challenges and still struggling to keep compliant, it’s likely that a single partner won’t suffice, or the solutions they offer are too limited in scope to solve complex challenges. The easy appeal of a real-time blocking solution, for example, sounds like a perfect fix, but in reality the embedded script tasked with blocking in “real-time” relies on a cache system to identify a previously encountered bad ad. Considering the speed and creativity with which talented programmers reinvent or modify the dangerous content injected into an ad, that real-time blocking script will still let any bad ad it has never dealt with before slip through the cracks.
You might be armed with a hammer, but that doesn’t mean every problem is a nail. Within the evolving landscape of malicious behaviour, many new problems will call for a more subtle approach.
New challenges, creative solutions
Another rising concern keeping those handling ad quality compliance awake at night is ad cloaking. When a member of your compliance team is performing an online quality check, they are likely doing so from a single fixed IP, or at best a small range. Armed with this information, an attacker generates a script that effectively cloaks an attack via IP blacklisting, leaving that visitor viewing a clean ad while the dangerous elements make their way to the target audience.
Again the task at hand requires combating criminal ingenuity. To deal with cloaking, implementing a more sophisticated strategy, using an intricate network made up of millions of proxies renders blacklisting virtually impossible, and ultimately pointless as they would be blacklisting the IPs of their intended victims.
The challenge of malvertising is difficult to face, but impossible to ignore. For publishers and ad networks, the best defense against bad ads is a multifaceted approach combining internal commitment and focus with the external experience and performance abilities of dedicated partners capable of providing confidence, control, and a commitment to creative security.
A trusted partner
We are committed to working with our partners to solve today’s most difficult ad verification challenges. To learn more about the AdSecure platform, our mission to stop cyber criminals from doing harm, and our approach to clean ad delivery, click here.
AdSecure is exhibiting at Dmexco 2018
Dublin, 27 August 2018. AdSecure, the all in one anti-malvertising solution and ad verification tool used by ad networks and publishers, today announced that it is exhibiting at Dmexco, one of the world’s leading digital marketing events.
The AdSecure team will be explaining to Dmexco attendees the benefits of protecting their ad platforms and websites from malvertising and non-compliant ads with AdSecure.
AdSecure is a fully automated platform that uses crawler technology to scan ad tags, smart links, landing pages and programmatic RTB campaigns. Scans can be performed with 3 different types of IPs: Datacenter, Residential and Mobile Carrier. AdSecure clients are immediately alerted to any suspicious activity via instant email notifications and callback URLs. The platform is fully automated and provides powerful API integration using GraphQL technology.
Mathieu Derval, Product Manager at AdSecure commented, “We are very excited to be at Dmexco to showcase our latest platform features. Additionally we will be offering an exclusive 10% discount until the end of 2018 for ad serving platforms and publishers that sign up to AdSecure at our Dmexco booth.”
AdSecure’s booth is located in Hall 7.1 #B064. Dmexco is held 12 – 13 September at Koelnmesse, Cologne.

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The Madrid Mobile Summit is the ultimate event for everyone in the apps/games/adtech ecosystem – whether you’re an app marketer, publisher, developer, startup or VC – you’ll find sessions on how to grow long lasting and profitable apps, how to monetize apps using advertising and in-app purchases and how to get more users, keep them and analyze your data.
AdSecure is attending the Madrid Mobile Summit on the 14th of November 2017. To book a meeting with Mat, contact us

Meet with AdSecure at Dmexco 2017
Dmexco is the global business and innovation platform of the digital economy. It enables visitors to experience disruptive trends and defines the business potential of tomorrow. This is the meeting place for makers and shakers, visionaries, marketing and media professionals, techies, and creative thinkers. dmexco combines the leading trade fair for digital marketing with an extraordinary conference — and it’s the sector’s top event of the year.