AdColony receives TAG certification for fighting digital ad fraud

AdColony, the ad quality video marketplace, announced the company has been granted the coveted Certified Against Fraud certification by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). The certification reaffirms AdColony’s continuing efforts to directly combat ad fraud and offer increased transparency for its advertising and publishing partners.

“AdColony is one of the first exchanges to be TAG certified, demonstrating our commitment to media quality standards that our advertisers need. Advertisers deserve to know that the campaign reporting they receive is honest and accurate,“ said AdColony’s managing director, APAC, Vikas Gulati. “By attaining this TAG certification, AdColony provides advertisers the highest quality, fraud-free, trustworthy environment with the assurance that their investments are being actively protected against malicious actors that would otherwise affect reporting and overall return on ad spend.”

According to research and advisory firm Gartner, mobile ad fraud may have cost the industry as much as $6.5 billion in 2017. As part of its ongoing responsibility to provide the best solutions and highest degree of transparency possible for both advertising and publishing partners, AdColony has embraced anti-fraud and transparency certification from leading independent bodies like TAG, MOAT, IAS, DoubleVerify, and more.

To earn the certification, AdColony met stringent guidelines as determined by TAG, a leading unbiased advertising accountability group. TAG was formed in 2016 by the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau to combat fraudulent activity across various digital advertising ecosystems.

The high bar and stringent requirements for advertising companies to acquire TAG certification are designed to protect advertisers, publishers, technology providers, and consumers from the fraudulent behaviours that cost the digital ad industry billions of dollars each year.

The TAG Fraud Benchmarking Study conducted last year by The 614 Group found the use of TAG Certified networks and channels for digital ads decreased invalid traffic (IVT) rates to 1.48 percent across more than 6.5 billion display and video impressions.

“This certification not only speaks to our own continually improving anti-fraud efforts up and down our technology stack, but also gives us even more tools to fight fraud,” said AdColony’s director of programmatic and growth, APAC, Tom Simpson. “TAG’s Payment ID System and Data Center IP list will be invaluable as we continue to combat fraud as a company and as an industry.”

In addition to this most recent TAG Certification, AdColony has also received a Digital Trading Standards Group (DTSG) certification by JICWEBS, the leading independent digital ad benchmarking organisation for the UK and Ireland. AdColony was also named one of the most secure mobile ad networks by Singular in their most recent report.

About TAG

Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) is a first-of-its-kind cross-industry accountability program to create transparency in the business relationships and transactions that undergird the digital ad industry while continuing to enable innovation. A joint marketing-media industry program, TAG was created with a focus on four core areas: eliminating fraudulent digital advertising traffic, combating malware, fighting ad-supported Internet piracy to promote brand integrity, and promoting brand safety through greater transparency.

About AdColony

AdColony is one of the largest mobile advertising platforms in the world with a reach of more than 1.5 billion users globally. With a mission to elevate the state of mobile advertising by focusing on the highest quality consumer experiences that deliver outcomes for brands and publishers on today’s most popular apps, AdColony is trusted by Fortune 500 brands and over 85 percent of the world’s top grossing mobile publishers. Known for our exclusive Instant-Play™ HD video technology, proprietary rich media formats, our global performance advertising business and programmatic marketplace, and our extensive ad SDK footprint in the top apps worldwide, we are passionate about helping brands connect with consumers at scale on the most important screen in their lives. A fully-owned subsidiary of Otello Corporation, AdColony is a global organisation with over 20 offices worldwide.