News Summary:
On April 17, 2026, Pixalate published a guide addressing ad fraud detection for healthcare professional (HCP) programmatic advertising, noting that ad fraud significantly impacts pharma marketing budgets, with HCP-targeted CPMs costing ten times more than consumer CPMs. Earlier, on April 2, 2026, Pixalate released the U.S. Connected TV (CTV) Seller Trust Index (STI) 2.0, an independent ranking of over 20 CTV ad sellers (SSPs) from Q4 2025 based on arbitrage risk and invalid traffic across major platforms like Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung TV, and LG. This followed the April 1, 2026, unveiling of the Mobile Seller Trust Index (STI) 2.0, which rates more than 200 mobile ad sellers (SSPs) across over 100 markets, including the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Singapore, China, and Brazil. The Q4 2025 findings for this index indicated that 26% of U.S. SSPs primarily functioned as arbitrageurs.
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