Q3 2020 could very well be the point where the new normal – everyone’s favorite term – really started to feel like “normal” rather than something “new.”

Here’s a revealing, somewhat sobering statistic on the scope and severity of what publishers face these days – 80% of consumers are already so frustrated with malvertising and CPU-consuming ads, they’ve adopted some form of consumer-level ad.

It’s an understatement to say that fraudsters are pests. They’re far more dangerous than that. Pests are a stream of harmless house ants parading through your kitchen, looking for a stray crumb.

Malware isn’t a one-and-done annoyance. It’s an evolving and adapting menace, changing its tactics to constantly find and exploit new weaknesses in the ecosystem. And if a publisher or platform doesn’t address malware with the attention and.

Fraudsters. Bad actors. Blackhats. It doesn’t matter what you call them because they all mean the same thing – the bad guys. They’re the ones that keep publishers up at night and wreak havoc on the rest of the ecosystem. And as anyone on the.

The entire digital ad industry is sitting at an intersection of some challenging roads right now. Between waning trust from consumers, expanding compliance demands, and the ever-evolving battle against ad fraud, there is a lot to pay attention to.

I probably don’t have to belabor what the digital ad industry – as well as the world – was up against during Q2 2020. Even saying it was historically turbulent doesn’t seem to quite do it justice. But here we are, looking back at that tidal wave of.

With such a fast and furious stream of headlines these days, we wouldn’t blame you if a few noteworthy items slipped through the cracks. However, given its importance to the industry, we would be remiss if we didn’t point out Google’s recent.

Publishers and platforms are busy. Things move fast in the digital ad world, and operations have many moving parts. That means anything that industry participants can do to streamline without sacrificing effectiveness is always welcome. And nowhere.

Ad Lightning is excited to be partnering with E-Planning to provide ad quality solutions for LATAM's largest SSP.  To kick-off the partnership, we sat down with Sebastian Lucero, the CMO of E-Planning, to learn more about their unique business and.