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MarTech » Performance Marketing » Google Updates DoubleClick Verification: Ad Blocking, Spam Filtering, Movie-Style Content Ratings

Google Updates DoubleClick Verification: Ad Blocking, Spam Filtering, Movie-Style Content Ratings

Today, Google-owned DoubleClick rolled out eight updates to its Verification product to address concerns about brand safety and give advertisers more control over and accounting of where their ads appear online. Here’s a quick rundown of the features Google is focusing on. Ad Blocking There are several features around ad blocking. Advertisers can add to […]

Ginny Marvin on December 2, 2014 at 2:07 pm

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Today, Google-owned DoubleClick rolled out eight updates to its Verification product to address concerns about brand safety and give advertisers more control over and accounting of where their ads appear online.

Here’s a quick rundown of the features Google is focusing on.

Ad Blocking

There are several features around ad blocking. Advertisers can add to the pre-built set of exclusion lists (politics, violence, adult, etc.) and create their own custom categories (called Custom classifiers) of content next to which they don’t want their ads to appear. For example, a cruise line may exclude content about cruise ship accidents and ship-borne illness breakouts to avoid repeating scenarios of cruise holidays being advertised next to stories of the Concordia grounding.

Ad serving can be blocked on both reservation and programmatic buys on display, mobile web and video inventory (in-app is not included here).

Spam Filtering

As part of this effort, Google announced updated spam filtering and fraud protection features — powered in part by it’s acquisition of fraud monitoring and analysis firm spider.io. Google says it has over 100 engineers working on fraud detection. Google has updated the spam filtering piece of DoubleClick Verification with pre-and post-bid filtering capabilities.

Target Content Based On Movie-Like Ratings

Google is also instituting a digital ratings classification similar to movie ratings. Advertisers can bid on inventory based on ratings labels: “DL-G” is content suitable for general audiences, “DL-PG” is equivalent to PG movie rating, “DL-T” is akin to PG-13 and  “DL-MA” is for mature audiences. The new Digital Content Labels apply ratings to inventory on DoubleClick, YouTube, GDN and AdMob.

 


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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