- Consumer Federation Battles Meta Over Scam Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 22, 2026
"Meta might prefer that Section 230 grant it sweeping immunity, but th ...
- IAB: 2026 Digital Video Ad Spend +11%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Targeting and content quality will show continued growth to 49% and 46 ...
- Phone Menace: Consumers Are More Scared Of Telephone Scammers Than Email
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 29, 2026
The average U.S. consumers gets over 500 scam phone calls per yea ...
- Meta Prevails In Battle Over Scam Real Estate Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Siding with Meta, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit ov ...
- Google Challenges Court Ruling Of False AI-Generated Claims
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 12, 2026
As brands scramble to identify and resolve AI-generated false claims, a Germ ...
- IAB Sweden Expels Meta: Warns Advertisers About Fraud, Brand Safety
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 13, 2026
The Interactive Advertising Bureau in Sweden at a recent board meeting mov ...
- Malicious Ads Through In-App Networks On The Rise
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 5, 2026
iOS apps face three times more malicious ads than Android apps, putti ...
- AI Running Fraud Network Across More Than 25M Devices
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 2, 2026
Mobile apps generate hidden in-app browser activity to load sites in t ...
- Meta Sues To Block Ad Scams By Firms In 3 Countries
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 27, 2026
Meta has filed lawsuits to fight deceptive advertising by firms in Brazi ...
- Tesla Sues California DMV, Claiming It Did Not Falsely Advertise Its Systems
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Tesla has sued the California DMV, seeking to reverse a ruling th ...
- Users Fight Meta Bid For Fast Appeal Over Fake Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Facebook users are urging the 9th Circuit to reject the company's reque ...
- Judge Authorizes Fast Appeal In Battle Over Fake Facebook Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 9, 2026
Meta can now ask the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to deci ...
- Going Meta On Fraud: New Year, Same Problems
Media Insider, Maarten Albarda - Friday, January 9, 2026
As an industry, we are still collectively looking the other way wh ...
- Advertising Vet Warns AI Protocols Hide Fraud
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 29, 2025
Fraud across programmatic media buying and ad serving continues, although industry exe ...
- Users: Facebook Lacks Grounds For Fast 'Fake Ads' Appeal
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Meta Platforms users who are suing over scam ads on Facebook a ...
- Meta Reportedly Making Billions From Fraudulent Ads
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, November 7, 2025
For the past three years, Meta has hidden its failure to st ...
- In Industry First, DoubleVerify Will Validate Non-Human Agent Traffic
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 4, 2025
The new service will validate "declared AI" agents such as ChatGPT, Clau ...
- How One Startup's 29-Year-Old Founder Will Take Advertisers Into The Future
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 27, 2025
AdsGency AI founder and CEO Bolbi Liu believes the average person h ...
- DoubleVerify Battles Adalytics Over 'Bot' Report
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 10, 2025
DoubleVerify is urging a federal judge to allow it to proceed wi ...
- Attribution Tool Used In 2.3B Fraudulent Bid Requests Daily
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
An ad-fraud operation called SlopAds discovered by Human's Satori Threat Intelligence te ...
- Adalytics Asks Judge To Toss DoubleVerify Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 8, 2025
Advertising analytics company Adalytics is urging a federal judge to throw o ...
- DoubleVerify Sues Adalytics, Jury Trial Demanded
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, May 15, 2025
The lawsuit follows a comprehensive analysis by the Media Rating Council asserti ...
- Google Search, Chrome, Android Scams Thwarted By AI
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, May 8, 2025
Google on Thursday began sharing how it uses AI to fight intern ...
- MRC Rebuts Sensational 'Fraud' Report, Says It Failed To Grasp How Brands Filter Ads Served To Bots
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, April 11, 2025
While the analysis focused on detecting bots when ads were served, t ...
- There Ain't No Such Thing As A Cheap, High Volume CPM
Planning & Buying Insider, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Ad buys are a lot like lunch. There ain't no free one ...
- Q4 'Open' Programmatic Up 10% To $7.6B - 34% Of CTV Ad Spend
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Roughly 90% of all CTV advertising is sold programmatically. All global C ...
- Lawmaker Seeks Probe Of Ad-Fraud Verification Firms
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 28, 2025
Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) is urging the FTC and DOJ to investiga ...
- Do You Know What Crimes Your Media Buys Are Funding?
Planning & Buying Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, March 6, 2025
That's what a London-based anti-ad-fraud advocacy group wants you to understand, a ...
- Meta Urges Judge To Toss Suit Over Scam Ads On Facebook
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 21, 2025
Meta Platforms wants a judge to throw out claims by two Facebo ...
- You Invested In Brand Safety -- But Your Ads Are Not Safe
Media Insider, Maarten Albarda - Friday, February 14, 2025
Another week, another brand safety and ad fraud avalanche, according to t ...