Kate Reinmiller

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Jan 26, 2021

Ad Lightning’s Q4 2020 Overview of Malicious & Unwanted Ads

Q4 2020 had a different feel to it. Yes, there was the typical holiday push and everything that usually entails. But the digital ad industry was also still finding its bearings from an extremely challenging year, tugging at the new normal like a.

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Jan 19, 2021

Ad Lightning Makes Video QA Fast and Easy to Maximize Publisher ROI

Video is the golden goose for the digital advertising industry. It's engaging, lucrative, and propels your customers across the marketing funnel in ways that display ads can only dream about.

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Jan 14, 2021

Ad Lightning’s Look at the Digital Advertising Industry in 2021

It’s always important to strategize for the road ahead. However, it becomes an absolute necessity in challenging and uncertain times. Obviously, those adjectives describe 2020 to a tee for the digital advertising industry, making well-informed.

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Dec 17, 2020

Looking Back on Ad Lightning’s 2020 State of Ad Quality Report

At this point, we’ve run out of adjectives to describe 2020 so I won’t even bother to dust off the thesaurus. Needless to say, the avalanche of challenges throughout the year has been unprecedented and, therefore, colors any review through a.

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Dec 15, 2020

3 Common Malicious Tactics: A Peek Into How Malware Operates

Life would be much easier for the digital advertising community if fraudsters were more blatant with their malicious tactics. Maybe a giant neon billboard with a flashing arrow and words that scream “Forced Redirect and Malware, Next Exit.” But,.

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Dec 08, 2020

Changes to CCPA Put Retargeting in the Regulatory Bullseye

It seems like the CCPA has been a work in progress for millennia at this point, doesn’t it? Since I first spoke of the California Consumer Privacy Act back in January 2020 – which might as well be millennia ago considering what’s happening since.

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Oct 29, 2020

Q3 2020 Recap: New Normal, Old Worries

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.”

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Oct 15, 2020

How to Block Bad Ads Without Destroying the User Experience

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.

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Oct 02, 2020

A Single-Point Ad Quality Solution Will Never Keep a Publisher Safe

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.

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Aug 20, 2020

The Lifecycle of Malware

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.

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