Matt Gillis

clean.io was founded in 2017 with the mission of delivering our customers real-time protection from unwanted code within any digital environment across commerce and consumption. We began by tackling malvertising, …

Malvertising is a malicious attack that impacts legitimate websites by bad actors purchasing and submitting ads that appear to be normal, but in fact execute malicious activity when displayed. Learn …

Threat levels of malicious ads have scaled in recent weeks as the end of the quarter nears. Malicious behavior is persistent over time — specifically shown by the act of …

About one year ago, clean.io launched with our first customer — and so began our journey to make the connected world a better and safer place for advertisers, publishers, platforms, …

Ad fraud is a growing problem, with some estimates showing it could cost advertisers as much as $100 billion by 2023.1 However, ad fraud isn’t just one thing: it comprises …

Forbes. New York Times. BBC. The Onion. NFL. What do all of these web publishers have in common? If you guessed that they’ve all been victims of malvertising, you would …

In April, the Digital Media ecosystem (like many others) continued to navigate the choppy waters brought on by the pandemic. Our most recent blog post on March 30th highlighted the …

We last issued our cleanAD SMART Report on February 3, 2020, less than 60 days ago. Since then, our lives have changed dramatically. Social distancing. Working from home. Living on …

Ad fraud is the multi-billion dollar shadow business of the digital ad ecosystem. Learn more about ad fraud to protect your business, customers, and revenue. The digital ad ecosystem is …

Summary of Malicious Ads and Reputation Threats The Headlines: While 90% of the threats originated from 11 SSPs (unchanged QoQ), 7 of those SSPs are brand new to the top …