Comedy Central and Tumblr are among the most popular apps targeted

Pixalate’s Mobile Ad Fraud Series December 2022 Spoofing continues to target utilities and games as the top app categories.

LONDON, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — PixalateToday,, the market-leading fraud protection and privacy platform for Mobile Advertising (CTV) has released the December 2022 edition of our Mobile Ad Fraud SeriesWe highlight the unique forms of invalid traffic in this article, which includes “ad fraud,” and is available across the mobile open programmatic advertisement marketplace.

This report includes Mobile App Spoofing numbers December 2022. Please visit our inaugural website for background information, definitions, and methodology related to CTV App Stomping. Mobile App Spoofing Report (October 2022) Check out the FAQs.

These are the Key Findings

• Wordscapes, Happy Color and Sudoku remain on the iOS App List since October.

• Comedy Central is the best iOS app for spoofing in North America during December.

• Mobile app spoofing continues to target games (especially iOS) and utilities (especially Android).

• Ragdoll Fighter is still the number one North American Google Play Store app, as per our November report.

Visit this link to view the complete list Mobile apps that were targeted by app fraud last month. here.

About Pixalate

Pixalate, the industry-leading platform for fraud protection, privacy, compliance analytics, and security for Connected Television (CTV), and Mobile Advertising, is Pixalate. We are available 24/7 to help you protect your reputation, and increase your media worth. Pixalate is the only company that offers coordinated solutions across display and app, video and CTV to help you detect and eliminate ad fraud. Pixalate, an MRC-accredited company, is capable of detecting and filtering sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT), across desktop, mobile web, in-app and CTV advertising. www.pixalate.com

Disclaimer

This press release and the CTV Ad Fraud Series (the “”) contain the following information:Report“), reflect Pixalate’s opinions with respect to the factors that Pixalate believes can be useful to the digital media industry. Pixalate opinions are opinions. They are not facts or guarantees. Neither this press release nor Report are meant to denigrate any entity, person, or app. Instead, the Report will report findings and trends related to apps in Roku and Amazon app store. The following is the MRC“Fraud” does not refer to fraud as it is defined in different laws, statutes, ordinances, or as used in U.S. Courts or other legal proceedings. It is a custom definition that is only intended for advertising measurement purposes. The following is also the MRC“Invalid Traffic” is traffic that doesn’t meet certain criteria for ad service quality or completeness, or that otherwise does not constitute legitimate ad traffic and should not be included in measurement counts. A reason ad traffic might be invalid is because it is not human traffic (spiders or bots, for example).), or activity designed to produce fraudulent traffic.”

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