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Media Quality Report: 20th Edition

IAS Team — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Industry-leading benchmarks for superior media quality

IAS is pleased to share the Media Quality Report: 20th Edition — offering trusted benchmarks and global insights based on more than 280 billion digital interactions daily.

As the gold standard in media quality, the Media Quality Report (MQR) is here to help marketers across the globe assess performance through the industry’s most actionable data. This year’s report offers an in-depth look into global media quality data, key trends shaping the digital landscape, and a step-by-step guide for how to get the most out of the MQR.

Dive into this year’s report, with key trends including:

BRAND RISK: The share of offensive content increased 72% year-over-year.
AD FRAUD: Fraud rates for campaigns that were not protected against fraud increased 19%.
VIEWABILITY: Overall viewability stabilized, but global desktop video viewability reached a record high of 83.9%.

With digital media evolving every day, reliable benchmarks are more important than ever. See how your media stacks up — and where to take action next.

Download the report today to access IAS’s industry-leading global benchmarks.

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IAS Partners with OpenX to Provide AI-Driven Brand Safety, Suitability, and Invalid Traffic Measurement

IAS Team — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

IAS has partnered with OpenX, one of the world’s leading omnichannel supply-side platforms, to provide advertisers with the confidence to scale their campaigns across OpenX’s expansive publisher footprint, including web, in-app and premium CTV.

The supply-side integration ensures advertisers can access brand safe and suitable inventory across Openx’s global network, and publishers can more accurately identify fraud and IVT.

Through this partnership, IAS and OpenX are:

Ensuring brand safe and suitable content for advertisers throughout the breadth of globally available OpenX inventory
Eliminating blind spots for publishers to proactively detect and report against fraud and IVT at the impression level
Providing advertisers with data enrichment such as attention metrics to deliver additional value through unique inventory packages, custom segments, and more for programmatic direct and PMP deals

“Our partnership with OpenX further demonstrates our commitment to helping publishers maximize yield and grow their audiences, while assuring advertisers that they are investing their spend in brand safe and suitable inventory,” said James Wilhite, VP, Product at Publica by IAS. “IAS is excited to provide our best-in-class measurement solutions across OpenX’s premium publisher inventory.”

“OpenX’s partnership with IAS reflects our focus on driving innovation and providing best-in-class solutions across all digital channels by extending our audience modeling capabilities,” said Gil Sommer, VP of Global Product at OpenX. “Advertisers across our premium supply can remain confident in better outcomes, and publishers can expect to see higher yield and monetization opportunities.”

In February 2024, IAS announced the launch of IAS for Publishers, a new UI for the sell-side that helps publishers maximize yield and grow their audiences. In April 2024, IAS for Publishers was enhanced to enable ad sellers to report on both MFA and Ad Clutter and get insights into the quality of their inventory.

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End-to-End Ad Measurement is Super Valuable — Here’s Why

IAS Team — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

It’s no secret that measurement is a crucial component of successful advertising campaigns. Advertisers and publishers alike have been measuring digital impressions for decades. But ad measurement has evolved significantly since its inception, and impressions aren’t the only metric that matter anymore.

So how comprehensive and actionable is the measurement you’re relying on today?

The right measurement tactics enable you to ensure greater brand protection and impact on valuable media inventory — especially in environments like the open web, where your display and video campaigns are highly visible. In this blog post, we’ll explore why end-to-end ad measurement is invaluable and how it can transform your advertising strategy.

The key ingredients of end-to-end ad measurement

Despite its simplicity in nature, end-to-end ad measurement on the open web can get complicated fast. The advertising ecosystem is complex and busy, with consumers tuning in every day to different formats via multiple streaming platforms, and often in very different contexts. To navigate this complexity, end-to-end measurement must cover several key areas.

Viewability

For advertising to make an impact, it has to be viewed —not just served. Ensuring that your digital ads have the opportunity to be seen by consumers, wherever they are, is critical. All digital ads — desktop, mobile, in-app, browser, display, video — have unique requirements that need to be met when measuring for viewability.

As advertising becomes more sophisticated, brands want to not only prove ROI but also transact on viewability, and that’s why it’s more important than ever to have full-flight data on whether or not an ad was seen. IAS provides coverage for display and video placements across desktop, mobile web, and mobile app, and provides actionable data that reports viewability, fraud, and overall user experience.

Measuring viewability is paramount, so IAS ensures it doesn’t come at the cost of efficiency. We deliver the same set of data to both buyers and sellers so that no time is wasted on reconciliation. Additionally, our predictive data makes it possible for brands to target the most viewable ads available, all before ever placing a bid. Our pre-bid video and display viewability segments are easily accessible within the world’s largest demand-side platforms.

Ad Fraud

There are more than 5.35 billion internet users worldwide using the internet everyday. But unfortunately, sometimes digital ads are delivered to anything but a real person.

Advertising fraud is a persistent threat in the digital space, draining resources and diminishing campaign effectiveness. According to our 19th Edition Media Quality Report, campaigns that are not optimized for fraud tended to encounter levels of fraud up to 14 times higher than those optimized against ad fraud. In fact, 8.4% of non-optimized ad campaign impressions were served to anything but a real human in the second half of 2023.

End-to-end ad fraud measurement can significantly increase transparency to help identify fraudulent inventory. By leveraging ad fraud metrics, marketers can measure the amount of activity their ads are generating from fraudsters, and subsequently use this data to optimize ad spend toward real users via IAS pre-bid solutions. Access to actionable invalid traffic data throughout the entire campaign is key to effectively allocating ad spend and confidently ensuring your ads have an opportunity to reach real users and make an impact.

Brand Safety and Suitability

Brand safety must go beyond the binary. Black and white brand safety and suitability measurement can unnecessarily limit scale and doesn’t give the context marketers need to understand the effectiveness of their ads.

That’s why it’s critical for marketers to build on the power of brand safety with the innovation of suitability. IAS contextual targeting technology reviews all elements on a given page and takes additional steps beyond URL analysis to understand the meaning of the content. Before a bid is even placed, IAS’s predictive science pre-screens pages to filter out content that isn’t suitable for a given brand. Only IAS gets to the true meaning of the content, so marketers can ensure they’re aligning campaigns with consumers who will connect the most with their brand.

End-to-end brand safety and suitability measurement and protection gives marketers the most accurate picture of the content near their ads, and provides brands with the opportunity to safeguard without limiting scale.

4 steps to improve your brand’s performance on the open web

Leverage measurement partners who follow industry standards for viewability
Keep up with benchmarks for viewability, invalid traffic, and brand safety and suitability
Employ AI-powered prevention solutions for invalid traffic and brand safety and suitability to ensure your ads are seen by real people in the right context
Reallocate ad spend based on viewability, invalid traffic, and brand safety and suitability data

Drive superior results today with IAS

By incorporating end-to-end measurement into your digital advertising strategy, you can protect your brand, optimize your ad spend, and achieve superior results. Reach out to an IAS representative today to learn how we can help you harness the full potential of your advertising campaigns.

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Effectively Validate Media Quality Across the Microsoft Advertising Network

IAS Team — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Safeguard and scale with Viewabilty, Invalid Traffic, and Brand Safety & Suitability Measurement across Microsoft

Delivering your ads to the right places and driving impact to the right audience has never been easy — until now. Starting today, IAS and Microsoft are joining forces to provide new levels of transparency into ad performance across the Microsoft Advertising Network including Audience Ads and Microsoft Invest.*

Through this expanded collaboration, you can access Viewability, Invalid Traffic, and Brand Safety & Suitability measurement to ensure that your Microsoft ads are running adjacent to brand safe and suitable content and engaging users.

With IAS's Microsoft Advertising Network Measurement, you can:

Validate your campaigns with measurement using trusted third-party reporting and analysis for Audience Ads
Access actionable insights such as viewability, time in view, % completed, invalid traffic rate, and brand safety pass and fail rate
See a holistic view of performance across desktop, mobile web, and in-app for display, video, native, and CTV campaigns

Effectively validate your media quality and maximize engagement with real users across the Microsoft Advertising Network. To get started, download the one sheet and reach out to an IAS representative.

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Transition with Ease to IAS: A Message for Oracle Customers, Partners, and Employees

IAS Team — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:04:30 +0000

Oracle’s recent announcement to shut down its advertising business comes at a time of rapid transformation for the industry. We understand that this is an unsettling time for Oracle Advertising’s customers, partners, and employees. Our teams are committed to providing support and enabling a smooth transition during this period of change.

For Oracle Advertising customers and partners, IAS is here to facilitate your smooth transition to our Measurement and Optimization solutions. Our teams are ready to help you maximize ROI while serving as a reliable and innovative partner throughout this moment. We offer a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to deliver superior results and accelerate your progress.

Discover more about our offerings below:

Maximize ROI with Measurement and Optimization solutions for Brands & Agencies
Drive Yield with Media Quality solutions for Publishers
Forge the Future of digital media as our Partner

Additionally, we have a wide range of roles available at IAS and are eager to support Oracle Advertising employees affected by this change. If you find a role that aligns with your expertise, we encourage you to apply directly. Please highlight your skills and that you were impacted by this change.

Our mission at IAS is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. We are here to support you and ensure a smooth transition to IAS during this turbulent time.

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Verify intrinsic in-game buys in Frameplay’s gaming ecosystem

IAS Team — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:59:00 +0000

Advertise confidently in gaming environments with IAS-accredited Invalid Traffic measurement

Your ad spend is valuable in every environment. When it comes to gaming, rest easy knowing your buys are more transparent than ever before in Frameplay’s gaming ecosystem with industry-leading Invalid Traffic (IVT) measurement from IAS.

Through this integration, marketers can verify that their valuable intrinsic in-game ad placements are seen by real gamers with precise impression counts in a fraud-free environment.

With IAS invalid traffic (IVT) measurement and impression counts in Frameplay’s gaming ecosystem, marketers get:

Global measurement for a holistic view of intrinsic in-game media buys
Trusted, third party reporting with daily reporting in the IAS Signal UI
Comprehensive coverage across formats and environments

Advertise in Frameplay’s network of premium games with confidence that your campaigns are engaging real gamers and driving results. Download the one sheet now to get started.

IAS is all-in on gaming. Learn more about what gamers want from intrinsic in-game ads here and check out IAS’s gaming capabilities on the Insider blog.

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IAS Drives Stronger Brand Lift for Emerging Electric Auto Brand

Kelly Kauffmann — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:13:09 +0000

IAS partnered with Upwave to demonstrate how IAS in-view powers brand lift

In this case study, IAS partnered with Upwave and an emerging electric automotive brand to show the role media quality plays in driving business results for the auto brand. We specifically looked at viewability to understand what impact in-view ads have on brand lift.

THE RESULTS:

+27% lift in awareness for IAS in-view exposed group
+20% lift in consideration for the IAS in-view exposed group

Marketers, the outcome is clear: viewability is pivotal in driving positive consumer perception and consideration for your brand.

Download the case study now for more.

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