Malicious and Disruptive Ads Account for 1 in Every 100 Impressions According to New Confiant Research
NEW YORK, May 16, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Confiant, the leader and innovator in advertising security, today released its Demand Quality Report for Q1 2019. The report benchmarks demand quality issues that publishers and platforms face -- such as malicious ads, low-quality ads and in-banner video ads -- so they can better protect their reputation, revenue and resources. While there was a significant decrease in issues across all three categories, malicious and disruptive ads still impact nearly one in every 100 ad experiences.
"This is Confiant's fourth report and the first time we have access to year-over-year data. By sharing this data, publishers and platforms can better understand the health of the ad ecosystem and make decisions accordingly," said Louis-David Mangin, Confiant's CEO and cofounder. "Thankfully, malware and other ad quality issues are not intractable problems. With the right systems in place and commitment from the industry, we can tackle these issues."
Confiant observed a substantial decrease in the violation rates from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019, and uncovered seasonal factors and industry-wide trends, such as:
Nearly 1 in every 100 programmatic impressions was impacted by a malicious or disruptive ad: This statistic, when combined with a conservative estimate of 4-5 display ads per page and 5 pages per session, suggests that over 20% of user sessions might be impacted by malicious or disruptive ads.
Weekends and holidays experience a higher rate of incidents: Three-day weekends are attractive targets for malvertisers, and the largest spike in malicious ads in Q1 occurred over President's Day weekend, a U.S. federal holiday that takes place on the third Monday in February.
There is a huge margin between bad platforms and good: The best supply-side platforms (SSPs) continue to outperform the worst by a huge margin. Currently, the worst SSPs are 67 times as likely to deliver a malicious or disruptive ad.
The issues remain highly concentrated: More than 60 percent of in-banner video ads and 60 percent of security issues came from just three SSPs.
These insights and others from the report strongly suggest that publishers need to carefully consider what SSPs they choose to work with and how they choose to work them. The impact on user experience and monetization varies greatly between SSPs, creating a complex tradeoff that Confiant hopes to help illuminate as its solution evolves.
You can view the Q1 2019 Demand Quality Report in full here.
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About Confiant
Confiant is an advertising security company born from the recognition that the world's most sophisticated advertisers aren't Verizon or P&G, but criminals using the industry for their own selfish ends. These criminals are hijacking programmatic advertising and giving publishers a bad name.
Confiant protects publishers' and platforms' reputations, revenue, and resources with always-on anti-malware software that provides protection for desktop, mobile, and video ads. Our sole focus is on helping advertising platforms and publishers rid the world of malware. This focus enables us to evolve quickly and meet our clients' needs for defeating the bad actors trying to undermine the industry.
It is the first company to come to market with a technology that not only detects malicious activity, but actively blocks it. Confiant believes in the intelligent application of this new technology to fight back and make digital media safe for everyone. For more information visit: http://www.confiant.com.
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