Pixalate, Inc., the global leader in fraud protection and data intelligence, today released the November 2017 rankings in the Global Seller Trust (GSTI), Mobile Seller Trust (MSTI), and Video Seller Trust (VSTI) Indexes.
This month, Pixalate introduces ads.txt scoring to our GSTI to effectively measure the quality of a seller's network of domains that they represent. The industry-wide ads.txt effort was born in the IAB's Tech Lab and has created overnight transparency for buyers into the programmatic advertising ecosystem of sellers and domains.
As of December 18, 2017, Pixalate research shows that nearly half (45%) of the top 5000 domains which support programmatic have implemented ads.txt. That number has grown every week; it was below 10% in September.
Some of the world's leading buyers and sellers are pushing the programmatic ad-buying industry toward a world in which the use of ads.txt is ubiquitous in a bid to improve transparency, quality, and trust throughout the digital supply chain.
In choosing to rank sellers using their ads.txt presence as a metric, Pixalate recognizes that this new standard — already in use across more than 70,000 domains and 1.5 million sub-domains worldwide — is a critical component of seller trust.
Below are some of the key takeaways regarding movers and shakers at the top of the rankings.
Pixalate’s monthly Global Seller Trust Index (GSTI), Mobile Seller Trust Index (MSTI), and Video Seller Trust Index (VSTI) are the worldwide standards in programmatic advertising quality ratings. Released monthly, the indexes evaluate and rank the quality and integrity of advertising networks and sellers across channels, platforms, and devices.
Global quality ratings are based on an analysis of overall effectiveness assessing multiple factors, such as viewability, fraud, engagement, domain masking, network quality and more, in compliance with recognized industry standards.
To learn more about the methodology and to download the expanded list of top sellers, visit http://www.pixalate.com/sellertrustindex.
Pixalate, Inc. is a leading global intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider. Pixalate is a Media Rating Council-accredited vendor for display ad viewability and Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT) detection and filtration for desktop and mobile web traffic. For more information, please visit www.pixalate.com.
