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Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, released new research showing that U.S. Twitter users favor contextually relevant, in-feed ads which can lead to higher levels of ad recall and memorability. This new report from IAS surveyed over 1,000 U.S. consumers to explore how they experience advertising and content within Twitter's dynamic in-feed environment. Marketing Technology News: Strata Introduces Identity Orchestration Platform for Multi-Clouds "Our latest research can help marketers…

Viewability of In-Play inventory now independently measured by IAS Enables brands and agencies to invest in mobile gaming with confidence Admix, the pioneering In-Play advertising platform that bridges the gap between mobile games and brands, announces a new partnership with Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification. This integration with IAS makes Admix the only In-Play advertising company to offer ad inventory that is measured and verified by a trusted, independent partner. Marketing…

H2 2020 Media Quality Report provides global benchmarks for viewability, brand safety, and ad fraud across digital environments and channels Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, today released its H2 2020 Media Quality Report (MQR) with insights into the performance and quality of global digital media. Marketing Technology News: AdsWizz Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Podcast Downloads "As marketers evolved their strategies in the second half of 2020, our latest MQR report shows greater…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, released new research showing that U.S. consumers prefer YouTube to all other ad-supported streaming services on CTV, while brand safety and suitability are also top of mind. Surveying over 1,000 U.S. consumers, this new report from IAS explores how CTV users experience YouTube content and ads. "After a period of rapid growth, CTV is now officially consumers' preferred streaming device and YouTube tops the list of ad-supported streaming services that…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, has launched IAS Academy, the industry's first globally accredited training program for digital ad verification. Marketing Technology News: CIO Honors Technology Achievement With 2021 CIO 100 & Hall of Fame Awards "IAS Academy empowers marketers with best-in-class training and tools so they can make well-informed decisions about the verification of digital ad quality," said Tony Marlow, CMO, IAS. "In a fast-paced environment where technology…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, announced that the company has achieved global recertification from the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) for 2021. IAS successfully earned all three of TAG's certification seals that apply to its ad verification technology. Marketing Technology News: Cloud Computing Could Eliminate a Billion Metric Tons of CO2 Emission Over the Next Four Years, and… "A longstanding member of TAG, IAS is committed to providing our partners with the trusted…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, released its 2021 Industry Pulse Report. Surveying over 200 ad industry experts across the US, IAS found that issues around digital video and connected TV, programmatic, and social rocketed to the top of the ad industry's priority list. Marketing Technology News: Solodev Achieves AWS Public Safety & Disaster Response Competency Status "2020 has proven to be a year of accelerated change in the digital ad industry, with major shifts that…

In its latest report on ad fraud risks, Integral Ad Science (IAS) has reported key statistics on adtech and brand safety trends in the APAC and Australia. According to the report titled, “Media Quality Report for H1 2020”, Australia had notable reductions in total brand risk for video impressions — both desktop video and mobile web video. Compared to this startling trend in Australia, Japan was facing quite the opposite. Advertisers in Japan witnessed a spike in brand safety violations due to complex issues in the…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, released its Media Quality Report (MQR), which found there has been an improvement in most major digital media quality indicators like brand safety, viewability, and fraud. In the first half of 2020, consumers worldwide spent notably more time with various media as they observed the stay-at-home guidance of their respective geographies. According to eMarketer, consumers are now spending an extra hour per day on digital media alone compared to 2019.…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, and Google Campaign Manager, the largest global ad server, announced the first automated tag to seamlessly wrap campaigns with both ad server and third-party verification tags for Campaign Manager. Time spent manually wrapping tags is one of the biggest pain points for digital advertisers today. With IAS's new automated tag, they will now be able to reduce time spent wrapping tags. Additionally, advertisers will have a central location to…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced the expansion of its business into the Indonesia market. IAS has appointed a digital media veteran, Arfitrianto Zulnaini, as sales director to lead the business operations in Indonesia. Arfitrianto will be based in Jakarta and will report to Laura Quigley, SVP APAC, IAS. Arfitrianto is tasked with accelerating IAS’s operations in Indonesia and further driving the media quality mandate in Indonesia by the adoption of IAS’s superior…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, released results from its 2020 consumer study on holiday shopping habits. Key findings from the study show that this year consumers are relying on online shopping and digital ads to find the perfect gifts for their friends and families this holiday season. Given the effects of the global pandemic and accompanying social distancing measures, consumer habits are shifting to account for these new realities. Almost eight in ten US consumers report…

Taboola, the world’s leading discovery platform, announced a partnership with Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, to introduce an industry-first pre-bid brand safety technology for performance advertisers. This is the first-ever integration to directly apply pre-bid brand safety within a native discovery platform. With this integration, performance advertisers have the ability to achieve their marketing goals across Taboola’s large audience of 1.4 billion people each month, while…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced that The Globe and Mail, Canada's trusted source of news, will now offer IAS's leading contextual targeting solution, Context Control. This contextual technology is offered incrementally with existing IAS brand safety controls, providing curated contextual targeting and smart inventory packaging at scale. Marketers can now control their ad adjacencies with a wide array of contextual signals, including the sentiment and the emotional…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced that Otto Berkes, Chief Executive Officer at Acendre, has joined its board of directors effective August 26, 2020. Berkes brings a wealth of experience to the IAS board with expertise in business and building innovative technology solutions. As an Xbox co-founder, Berkes had an 18-year career at Microsoft where he drove groundbreaking hardware and software innovation in computer graphics, home entertainment, mobile devices, and cloud…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced the rebrand of its MRC accredited metric "Qualified Ads" to "Quality Impressions". IAS's Quality Impressions represent a proprietary set of metrics that help ensure media quality transparency. To qualify as a Quality Impression, an ad unit must be viewable, by a real person, in a brand-safe and suitable environment - all within a campaign's correct geographical parameters. Marketing Technology News: Taboola and Outbrain Call off Their…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced the launch of 'Context Control', IAS's sophisticated new suite of brand safety & suitability solutions. The Context Control suite of solutions now incorporates the premiere semantic technology within the verification space to deliver unmatched accuracy and granularity in online content classification. Superior content classification enables a new level of precision and scale for marketers seeking to better navigate the content…

Integral Ad Science (IAS) announced the launch of its new Pinterest integration, which delivers viewability and fraud measurement for Pinterest's mobile app inventory. IAS's Pinterest solution delivers marketers unprecedented access to IAS viewability and invalid traffic reporting for their mobile in-app campaigns. The IAS reporting includes standard and video Pinterest ads for in-app inventory, all refreshed on a daily basis. Marketing Technology News: Snappy Kraken Reveals Marketing Secrets in New Video Series The…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced it is the first verification company to integrate with Google Ads Data Hub (ADH), Google's privacy-focused data platform for advertisers. The IAS integration provides advertisers viewability, ad fraud, and brand safety measurement for YouTube via ADH. While IAS does not collect or use any private audience data for delivering its verification services, being the first with this new integration will help lead the way for setting new data…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, today announced Eu-Gene Sung has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. In her new role, Sung will report directly to the CEO, Lisa Utzschneider, and will lead the organization in setting financial strategies to drive business outcomes and growth. Her first day will be May 6, 2020. "We have ambitious goals at IAS and Eu-Gene's experience working closely with CEOs to grow businesses, both in terms of revenue and profitability, makes her the ideal…