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Moat Analytics Earns MRC Recognition for Sophisticated Invalid Traffic Filtration and Detection in Mobile Apps Oracle Data Cloud announced that the Media Rating Council has granted accreditation to Moat Analytics for its ability to detect and filter sophisticated invalid traffic, like the ad fraud generated by bot networks, in mobile apps. To earn its MRC accreditation, Moat Analytics successfully completed an audit of its technologies, systems, and processes by independent CPAs engaged by the MRC, and was found by an MRC…

Remember viewability? It seems like only yesterday that it was the digital ad industry’s cause de guerre. After all, what good is an ad if it can’t be seen by the consumer. Ads that are served “below the fold,” or that fail to load sufficient pixels to be read and understood, have no chance to influence consumers purchasing decisions. In 2015 wave-making CMOs like P&G’s Marc Pritchard and Unilever’s Keith Weed dominated the conversation with public calls for digital to clean up its act and provide guarantees that…

S4M to Capitalize New Series B Funding to Close the Offline and Online Advertising Divide S4M, a global AdTech MarTech company specializing in drive-to-store campaigns, has announced that it has raised $12 Million in a Series B round from Sofiouest with participation from existing investors Bpifrance and Entrepreneur Venture. Series B Funding Likely to Bridge Online and Offline Investments by Delivering Real-World Metrics E-commerce remains a critical channel for brands and retailers to generate sales. However, 90% of…

Oracle's Moat Achieves Rigorous MRC Accreditation for SIVT of Desktop and Mobile Web Traffic Moat's Advanced Functionality Uses Insights from Oracle's Proprietary Data Assets to Help Identify Bots & Other Invalid Traffic Oracle's Moat has announced new capabilities to detect invalid traffic, including traffic from sophisticated bots designed to look like consumers. Moat's new functionality utilizes insights gained from Oracle's proprietary data assets, including its Zenedge and Dyn acquisitions. Currently,…

Engaging new ad formats are here, and they’re ready to be deployed. However, there’s a bottleneck with regard to improving the overall inventory of the web (and especially mobile) advertising: adtech vendors. Despite the availability of unique creative formats that delight users and engender positive brand experiences, the infrastructure isn’t there to support these ads hitting the marketplace en masse. Or rather, it’s there, but the proliferation of poor creative continues to drown these formats out in the marketplace.…