Integral Ad Science

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced that Tom Sharma will join the company as Chief Product Officer, effective November 2, 2020. This critical new hire will accelerate IAS's global product expansion, including plans to enhance its industry-leading Connected TV (CTV) solution. Sharma will be based in New York and report directly to IAS CEO, Lisa Utzschneider. "We have aggressive goals to deliver innovative ad verification products that drive this industry forward, and Tom's…

Innovid, the only independent advertising and analytics platform built for television, announced the hire of Dale Older as its first Chief Product Officer. In this role, Older will set and oversee the execution of Innovid’s product vision including strategy and management across Innovid’s suite of omni-channel solutions serving the needs of the world’s largest brands, agencies, and publishers. Prior to joining Innovid, Older was Chief Product Officer at Integral Ad Science (IAS). In tandem, Yuval Pemper, formerly SVP,…

Undertone, the leader in Intelligent High Impact who creates the most memorable digital experiences for brands, has officially released its new video Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and buying model with IAS, called Viewable-to-Complete Video (VTC). Now top-tier brands who partner with Undertone for instream and outstream video solutions will be able to transact on a video impression that is viewable at the point of video completion for 6 second to 30 second video. Undertone has invested heavily in the video space over…

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, 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, 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…

Advertisers Can Now Seamlessly Monitor Their YouTube Campaigns With the First Brand Safe & Performance Driven Inclusion List Integral Ad Science (IAS) and Channel Factory announced the launch of Channel Science, an industry-leading partnership that gives advertisers the opportunity to leverage both companies' technologies through a single product to ensure their YouTube campaigns are even more brand-safe, brand-suitable and performance-optimized. More than ever before, advertisers are searching for ways to…

Advertisers will now have end-to-end visibility into media quality and financial transaction data Integral Ad Science (IAS) today announced Total Visibility, an industry-leading partnership with Amino Payments to offer the first solution in programmatic buying showing advertisers the true cost of qualified media. Total Visibility gives advertisers both impression-level financial insights and media quality verification to optimize campaigns in real-time. Now more than ever, marketers are looking for ways to ensure their…

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…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, released its Media Quality Report for H2 2019, providing transparency into the performance and quality of global digital media. The report found positive changes across many aspects of the ecosystem, including a rise in global viewability rates across all formats and environments in the second half of 2019. Desktop video viewability has continued to rise, reaching new heights at 74.1% compared to 68.6% in the same period a year prior. Meanwhile, mobile…

Consumers are ready for ad-supported streaming so they won't need to pay for as many services Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, oh my! Regardless of the vehicle, Connected TV (CTV) is growing in ubiquity in the US: almost 9 in 10 consumers have access to a connected TV. Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, today released results of a survey on streaming trends among American consumers. The report shows that alongside the growth of streaming, consumers may be starting to feel subscription…

Leading self-service advertising platform provides pre-bid avoidance segments, helping advertisers avoid unwanted impressions Adelphic, a Viant subscription-based, self-service platform for cross-channel programmatic advertising, announced a partnership extension with Integral Ad Science (IAS) to provide industry-leading, pre-bid custom keyword optimization. Adelphic is among the first to market with this solution that ensures advertisers can avoid specific keywords within a URL string, ultimately improving brand safety and…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global market leader in digital ad verification, releases a first-of-its-kind Media Quality Report for H1 2019, providing transparency into the performance and quality of Australian digital media, alongside global comparisons. Australian ads achieve greatest time-in-view The latest IAS report reveals that compared to major global markets, the average time-in-view for mobile web display ads was highest in Australia at 18.47 seconds, with the United States (U.S.) claiming second place at…

Mobile Advertising Company Creates an Additional Layer of Protection, Transparency and Measurement AdColony, the mobile performance marketplace, announced that after an extensive vetting process, it has chosen Pixalate as its partner for prevention of digital ad fraud, specifically in mobile app environments. AdColony already provides multiple layers of protection against ad fraud, including TAG certification and full compatibility with viewability measurement firms Integral Ad Science, DoubleVerify and MOAT. “We’ve…

Advertisers now have the ability to understand how viewability and time-in-view truly impact consumers and drive conversions. Online Conversion Lift (OCL) from Integral Ad Science (IAS) ties verification metrics to digital campaign ROI, providing advertisers with tactical insights that help them reduce campaign waste and optimize performance. Proving return on digital ad spend with Online Conversion Lift @integralads Maintaining the integrity of campaign success measurements in the face of rapidly changing technology and…