Ad Fraud and Spam

AdBrite, Inc., the leading independent online ad exchange, along with its new executive team led by CEO Hardeep Bindra, today announced new features and functionality for its all-inclusive exchange, benefiting both advertisers and publishers at no additional cost. These features include full URL-level transparency from its publishers, content classification into IAB ad categories powered by Peer39, click fraud monitoring by Adometry, a Publisher Floor Price Recommender developed in-house, and the AdBrite Intelligence campaign and audience measurement tool for advertisers.

Solve Media (www.SolveMedia.com) today revealed that 10 percent of all online traffic is generated by bots – softwareapplications that run automated processes across the Web. eMarketer predicts online display ad spend will reach $15.3 billion globally in 2012, which means that potentially $1.5 billion in ads will be served to bots. Since 2011, Solve Media has witnessed a 400 percent rise in aberrant traffic across registration, voting, commenting and contact services on the web. The company’s CAPTCHA-based advertising technology provides security authentication solutions for publishers.

AdSafe Media, the leading global provider of actionable advertising intelligence data for buyers and sellers of digital media, today announced the enhancement of its proactive brand safety solution for advertisers and agencies with a new level of protection: Suspicious Activity Detection (SAD). The new offering takes the company's leading solution for fraud identification a step further, introducing the industry's first and only proactive protection against inventory suspicious of both click fraud and impression fraud.

StopBadware announced the launch of the Ads Integrity Alliance, an initiative to protect users from bad ads and maintain trust in the online advertising ecosystem. Charter members of the Alliance include Facebook, Google, Twitter, AOL, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

DMG (DSNR Media Group) – a leading provider of digital advertising solutions for online, mobile, and video, announced today that Traffiliate for Mobile, DMG's platform that provides comprehensive real-time visibility of mobile campaigns, now includes an anti click fraud solution for more accurate measurement of mobile ad effectiveness. Based on DMG’s extensive experience in mobile advertising, serving over 10 billion impressions monthly, this anti click fraud capability identifies unwanted clicks that can result in savings of tens of thousands of dollars every month for mobile advertisers. In addition to reducing costs, this software provides a more accurate assessment of clicks, leading to better planning and more effective campaign results.