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Verification Platform

Verification platforms detect and prevent invalid traffic, fraud, and brand safety violations in digital advertising campaigns. Advertisers, publishers, and ad networks use these solutions to protect spending and inventory quality. The platforms analyze ad impressions, video views, and user interactions in real time to identify bot traffic, malware, misplaced ads, and other threats. They measure viewability, confirm authentic human engagement, and classify content for brand suitability. By filtering out fraudulent activity and unsafe placements before ads run, these tools help ensure marketing budgets reach legitimate audiences and maintain brand reputation.

Companies

42

Tier distribution

S3A5B14Other20

42 Verification Platform companies tracked by ATDb — 8 leaders, 2 recent deals.

Recent deals in Verification Platform

Avg Completeness
78%
News (30d)
12
Deals (90d)
2
(5)
(14)
Adloox

Adloox

Ad Verification

Adloox is an ad verification and brand safety platform that helps advertisers ensure their digital ads are viewable, brand-safe, and free from fraud. Peer39 has owned it since June 2026.

Paris, Île-de-France
Admantx

Admantx

Contextual Targeting & Brand Safety

AdmantX is a semantic intelligence and contextual targeting platform that analyzes content in real-time to enable brand-safe advertising and audience targeting.

Lugano, Ticino
AdScore

AdScore

Ad Tech - Ad Verification and Fraud Prevention

AdScore is a specialized digital advertising technology company that provides comprehensive ad verification, fraud detection, and measurement solutions designed to protect advertising investments across the digital ecosystem. The company's platform leverages advanced machine learning algorithms and real-time analytics to identify and block fraudulent traffic, verify ad viewability, ensure brand safety, and deliver accurate campaign performance metrics. AdScore serves a diverse client base inc...

Akamai

Akamai

Cloud Infrastructure & CDN

Global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider that offers security, performance, and delivery solutions for digital content and applications.

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anura

Anura

Enterprise Analytics & Business Intelligence

Anura is an enterprise-focused technology company specializing in advanced analytics solutions that transform complex data into strategic business intelligence. The platform integrates machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, and real-time data processing to deliver actionable insights across multiple critical business functions including fraud detection, risk assessment, customer behavior analysis, and supply chain optimization. Serving as a comprehensive analytics framework, An...

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Channel Factory

Brand Safety & Contextual Targeting

Channel Factory is a brand safety and contextual targeting platform specializing in YouTube and connected TV advertising, helping brands reach relevant audiences while avoiding harmful content.

New York, New York
Clean.io

Clean.io

Acquired

Ad Security & Verification

Clean.io is a Baltimore ad-security company whose technology detects and blocks malicious ads (malvertising) for publishers. HUMAN Security acquired it in November 2022.

Baltimore
Click Guardian

Click Guardian

Click Fraud Prevention / Ad Verification

Click Guardian is a leading click fraud protection service designed to safeguard pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns from invalid clicks. It employs advanced algorithms to identify and block fraudulent activity, ensuring that businesses maximize their ad spend and improve the return on investment for their digital marketing efforts.

London, England
Forensiq

Forensiq

Rebranded

Ad Fraud Detection & Brand Safety

Forensiq was a leading ad fraud detection platform that used machine learning to identify invalid traffic and protect advertisers, publishers, and ad networks before being acquired by Impact in 2016.

New York, New York
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AdPolice

AdPolice

Ad Verification and Brand Safety

AdPolice is a digital advertising verification and brand safety platform that helps advertisers detect and prevent ad fraud, ensure brand safety, and optimize campaign performance. The company's AI-powered technology scans ad placements in real-time to protect brands from inappropriate content and fraudulent traffic.

AdShield

AdShield

Ad Security and Fraud Prevention

AdShield is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting digital advertising from fraud and malicious activity. Their technology helps publishers and advertisers detect and prevent ad fraud, malware, and invalid traffic in real-time.

Paris, Île-de-France
AdVerif.ai

AdVerif.ai

Brand Safety and Content Verification

AdVerif.ai provides AI-powered content moderation and brand safety solutions for digital advertising. The platform helps advertisers and publishers detect misleading content, fake news, and inappropriate material before ads are placed.

HypeAuditor

HypeAuditor

Influencer Marketing Technology

HypeAuditor is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that provides comprehensive analytics and fraud detection for social media influencers across various platforms. It helps brands and agencies discover, analyze, and manage influencer campaigns, ensuring effective and data-driven collaborations.

Indianapolis
PPC Shield

PPC Shield

Ad Fraud Prevention

PPC Shield is an advanced ad fraud prevention platform designed to protect pay-per-click campaigns from invalid clicks and bot traffic. It utilizes real-time detection and blocking mechanisms to ensure advertisers' budgets are spent on legitimate leads and genuine engagement, maximizing ROI for digital advertising efforts.

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The Search Monitor

Brand Protection and Competitive Intelligence

The Search Monitor provides brand protection and competitive intelligence solutions for paid search advertising, monitoring trademark bidding and ad compliance across search engines.

Orlando
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Confiant

Confiant

Ad Security and Quality Assurance

Confiant is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing protection against ad-related malware, malicious advertisements, and other online threats for publishers, advertisers, and ad platforms.

New York, New York
Fraud.net

Fraud.net

Cybersecurity - Fraud Prevention & Identity Verification

Fraud.net operates as a specialized verification and fraud prevention platform designed to help businesses combat the growing threat of online fraud across digital channels. The company provides comprehensive solutions that leverage advanced technologies including machine learning, behavioral analytics, and real-time data verification to identify and prevent fraudulent transactions. Their platform serves as a critical security layer for businesses processing online transactions, protecting bo...

MFilterIt

MFilterIt

Ad Fraud Detection and Prevention

MFilterIt is a global Ad-Fraud detection and prevention company that leverages AI and machine learning to help advertisers and brands optimize their digital ad spend. It specializes in identifying and eliminating various forms of ad fraud across web and mobile campaigns, ensuring genuine engagement and improved ROI for its clients.

Bengaluru, Karnataka
OpenSlate

OpenSlate

Acquired

Brand Safety & Contextual Advertising

OpenSlate is a leading provider of brand safety and suitability solutions for digital advertising. The company's platform analyzes and classifies online content to help brands and agencies ensure their ads are placed in brand-safe and suitable environments.

New York, New York
PerimeterX

PerimeterX

Acquired

Bot Management & Web Application Security

PerimeterX was a bot-defense and web application security company that protected websites, apps and APIs from automated attacks and fraud. It merged into HUMAN Security in July 2022.

San Mateo, California
White Ops (HUMAN)

White Ops (HUMAN)

Ad Fraud Prevention & Bot Detection

White Ops (now operating under the name HUMAN) is a cybersecurity company that specializes in the detection and mitigation of bot and other automated threats, protecting businesses from digital ad fraud, account takeover, and other malicious activities.

New York, New York
WhiteOps

WhiteOps

Rebranded

Ad Fraud Detection & Cybersecurity

White Ops (now HUMAN Security) was a cybersecurity company specializing in bot fraud detection and prevention, protecting digital advertising ecosystems from sophisticated invalid traffic.

New York, New York
Unranked(7)
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Amazon Rekognition

Computer Vision/AI Services

Amazon's cloud-based computer vision service that uses deep learning to analyze images and videos for object detection, facial analysis, content moderation, and visual search.

Seattle, Washington
Fiddler

Fiddler

Fiddler AI is a leading Model Performance Management (MPM) and Explainable AI (XAI) platform. It helps enterprises monitor, explain, and analyze their AI models in production, ensuring transparency, fairness, and optimal performance. The platform empowers data science and MLOps teams to build trust and achieve responsible AI.

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Google Cloud Vision API

Computer Vision API / AI Infrastructure

Google's machine learning-powered image analysis API that detects objects, faces, text, and content within images for developers and enterprises.

Mountain View, California
Kaminari Ad

Kaminari Ad

Ad Quality / Ad Security / AdTech

Kaminari Ad is an ad quality and ad security platform for publishers, ad networks, SSPs and DSPs. It scans ad creatives, ad tags, landing pages and redirect chains across iOS, Android and desktop from 195+ countries and flags malicious and bad ads — malvertising, auto-redirects, cloaking, scam and phishing landing pages, and ad policy violations — with full evidence: screenshots, the request tree and the rule that fired. Teams write their own ad quality rules in plain English, push verdicts into blocklists through the REST API and webhooks, and can work from Cursor or Claude via the official MCP server. Pay per scan.

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Microsoft Azure Computer Vision

AI/ML Infrastructure for AdTech

Microsoft's cloud-based AI service that extracts information from images and videos using computer vision algorithms for content analysis, moderation, and visual search applications.

Redmond, Washington
Onfido

Onfido

Acquired

Identity Verification & Fraud Prevention

Onfido is an AI-powered identity verification and authentication platform that helps businesses verify real user identities using document checks and biometric analysis — now part of Entrust following a 2024 acquisition.

London, England
TAG (Trustworthy Accountability Group)

TAG (Trustworthy Accountability Group)

Ad Fraud Prevention & Brand Safety

Industry initiative fighting ad fraud, malware and piracy in digital advertising.

Washington, District of Columbia