A residential IP proxy network is a network that pays consumers to share their Internet. The network then re-sells those consumers’ residential IP addresses to its customers — companies or users who want, for whatever reason, to appear as if they’re residential IPs within a specific region.
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Advertisers’ businesses boom yearly on Black Friday as they promote their annual sales. Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions.
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Last year, advertisers spent over $327 billion targeting users as they engaged with popular mobile apps, but as HUMAN Security announced yesterday, a chunk of that spending went into the pockets of fraudsters who successfully launched a massive ad fraud scheme.
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The battle for brand safety is on because bad actors are more creative than ever with their ad fraud tactics. It's time for clean sweeps of your sites because ad fraud and malvertising schemes are amiss. They are setting traps to sell your consumers' data, ultimately affecting your credibility as…
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Reflection is essential to moving into the new year, and the ad tech industry has much to reflect on from 2022. From the ad spend slowdown to potential federal privacy regulations, the ecosystem must work in overdrive to prepare for all that 2023 has to offer. Here are AdMonsters 2023 ad…
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Whether you're craving a rewatch or want to catch up on some much-needed viewing, AdMonsters’ webinars are available at your leisure. This year, our webinar series dealt with the future of monetization, malvertising schemes, and how publishers use data to close deals.
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While we can pat ourselves on the back for sparing advertisers and publishers from the threat of ad fraud, the consumer still suffers considerable risk and financial losses. TAG's recent research reveals an urgent need for education to protect both consumers and businesses from criminal activity in the supply chain.…
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Thanks to the due diligence of ad quality vendors, there are tools in place to ward off malvertising and bad actors. For example, forced redirects have decreased due to iframe sandboxing, more vendor adoption and better threat sharing. However, that did not hinder bad actors from evolving new practices to…
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Advertising scams have plagued the ad tech ecosystem for quite some time, but thanks to industry innovations many protections are now in place.
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Domain spoofing is still a big problem on the open web, especially for highly-ranked sites that have done an excellent job at earning the trust of their audiences. And even though ads.txt was created to thwart bad actors from performing arbitrage, domain spoofing, clickjacking and ultimately messing with legit publishers'…
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