Discover what cyber criminals did in the EU and the US during Q1 & Q2 2022, and get useful insights into ad security to protect the end user.
Continue readingHow does the EU compare to the US for ad security in 2022?
AdSecure releases Q1 & Q2 Violations Report 2022
For AdSecure's Violations Report, we analyzed over 100 million ad campaigns looking for insights into cyber criminal behavior in Q1 & Q2.
Continue readingBrand new AdSecure detection: Keyword-Crypto!
AdSecure has released a new detection to help publishers and ad networks identify crypto ads compliance: Keyword - Crypto Violation.
Continue readingAdSecure’s New Heavy Ad Detection
Heavy Ad Detection is a new detection from AdSecure aimed at identifying Ads not aligned with IAB Standards and can be blocked by Chrome.
Continue readingHow to choose an Ad Quality solution
If you are looking to protect your advertising business in this blog post we aim to show you how to choose an ad quality solution.
Continue readingWhy is Ad Quality Important?
The IAB industry standards set ad quality metrics for stakeholders in the ad supply chain. An ad quality solution can play a key role in growing your ad networks business.
Continue readingAd security & quality issues in the UK in Q3 & Q4
The UK was in second place for GEOs that malvertisers attacked in 2021, check out our ad security and quality statistics.
Continue reading1 in 40 scanned ad campaigns do not meet the IAB Standards
As a prequel to AdSecure’s soon to be released Violations Report Q1 & Q2 we looked at whether ad campaigns were aligned with the IAB industry standards. This was carried out using AdSecure's IAB Standards detection tool that scans ads to verify that the ads remain compliant with the industry standard IAB recommendations. During Q1 and Q2 of 2021, AdSecure detected that 1 in 40 (2.4%) of all scans revealed ad campaigns were not meeting the IAB Standards. Out of those 2.4% of scans, the following graph shows the percentage detections related to each IAB Standard detection:
Insights: Ad campaigns aligned to the IAB standards lead to higher levels of user engagement and overall conversion, meaning that these standards play a key role in maximising revenue for each campaign.
Website performance can be heavily impacted if industry advertising standards are not met. It creates a bad user experience and end users are less likely to click on the ad, affecting publisher eCPMs.
Additionally, now that Google has added web content performance into it’s SEO rankings, monitoring for low performing ad content can help publishers ensure they avoid SEO penalties in the future. The weight of ad creatives is also important, because fast loading ‘light’ ads create a better end user experience and keep Publishers in line with Google’s Chrome web browser which unloads ads that use excessive amounts of a user’s bandwidth and device CPU. Unloaded ads show the following message within the Publishers ad zone where the ad should be:
This can also happen with HTML/Iframe campaigns where the creatives are not meeting IAB standards.
AdSecure’s IAB Standards detection tool is used by publishers and ad networks to identify non aligned campaigns in order to stop the campaigns before they cause publishers problems, and are a way for ad networks to contact advertisers to inform them to resubmit creatives in order to meet the industry standards and help them maximise their campaign revenues.