The metrics that are valuable for understanding and tracking brand safety will differ across organizations and across different points in the supply chain. But there is a common set of key concepts that can help organizations work more effectively internally, as well as with their partners. Quality measurement starts by clearly defining what questions need to be answered.

Once these questions are identified, a realistic project plan can be devised, and then data can be sourced, stored it, and have analytics built around it.

Foundational Definitions


General Invalid Traffic Traffic that comes from known, nonhuman sources on publicly available IP lists. It can be identified through routine means of filtration by verification tools. Some GIVT is legitimate, some GIVT is malicious.

Sophisticated Invalid Traffic Nonhuman traffic that is more difficult to detect than General Invalid Traffic (GIVT), and requires advanced analytics, multipoint corroboration/coordination, or significant human intervention to analyze and identify.

Viewability Viewability is an online advertising metric that measures the number of impressions viewed by real, human users. A served impression does not necessarily count as a viewed impression, if it is served outside a live window or is served to a bot.


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