Pixalate’s information science crew analyzed over 12M+ cellular apps (together with delisted apps) throughout the Google Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer and 29.8B+ world open programmatic promoting impressions in Might 2024 to compile this analysis
LONDON, June 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pixalate, the market-leading fraud safety, privateness, and compliance analytics platform for Related TV (CTV) and Cell Promoting, as we speak launched the Might 2024 Cell App Spoofing Reviews: Apple App Retailer and Google Play Retailer.
The studies reveal which cellular apps are most liable to app spoofing by world area. Malicious actors can use invalid visitors (IVT) strategies, akin to app spoofing, to disguise the cellular app visitors supply. The report ranks the apps most liable to spoofing by geographic area, together with North America, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Europe, the Center East and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America (LATAM), as measured by Pixalate.
Pixalate’s information science crew analyzed over 29.8 billion world open programmatic promoting impressions from over 12 million cellular apps (together with delisted apps) throughout the Google Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer in Might 2024 to compile this analysis.
The next are the apps from every app retailer that had been most impacted by app spoofing danger in Might 2024 by geographic area, in response to Pixalate’s information and methodology.
World Apple App Retailer cellular apps most liable to spoofing in Might 2024
World Google Play Retailer cellular apps most liable to spoofing in Might 2024
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Methodology
For background info, methodology and definitions associated to Cell App Spoofing, please go to our inaugural Cell App Spoofing Report and think about the FAQs there.
To compile this analysis, Pixalate’s information science crew took the next steps:
Establish “Extremely Impacted” cellular apps: On Google Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer inside every of the worldwide areas, Pixalate first recognized apps with the best price of spoofed visitors (e.g. the proportion of all visitors purporting to return from an app that doesn’t truly come from an app). Within the context of this analysis, “Extremely Impacted” apps are apps which have an app spoofing price larger than 90% of different apps on a given platform inside a given area (or 5%, whichever is decrease) and cross an impression quantity threshold.
The “Extremely Impacted” apps are then ranked by quantity of spoofed impressions.
About Pixalate
Pixalate is a worldwide platform for privateness compliance, advert fraud prevention, and information intelligence within the digital advert provide chain. Based in 2012, Pixalate’s platform is trusted by regulators, information researchers, advertisers, publishers, advert tech platforms, and monetary analysts throughout the Related TV (CTV), cellular app, and web site ecosystems. Pixalate is MRC-accredited for the detection and filtration of Subtle Invalid Site visitors (SIVT). www.pixalate.com
Disclaimer
The content material of this submit, and the Report (the “Report”), mirror Pixalate’s opinions with respect to the components that Pixalate believes may be helpful to the digital media trade. Pixalate’s opinions are simply that, opinions, which signifies that they’re neither details nor ensures; and neither this press launch nor the Report are supposed to impugn the standing or fame of any entity, particular person or app, however as a substitute, to report findings and obvious developments within the time interval studied. Per the MRC, “’Fraud’ is just not supposed to signify fraud as outlined in numerous legal guidelines, statutes and ordinances or as conventionally utilized in U.S. Courtroom or different authorized proceedings, however moderately a customized definition strictly for promoting measurement functions. Additionally per the MRC, “‘Invalid Site visitors’ is outlined usually as visitors that doesn’t meet sure advert serving high quality or completeness standards, or in any other case doesn’t signify official advert visitors that ought to be included in measurement counts. Among the many explanation why advert visitors could also be deemed invalid is it’s a results of non-human visitors (spiders, bots, and many others.), or exercise designed to supply fraudulent visitors.”
Contact: Nina Talcott
ntalcott@pixalate.com
Director of Analysis Communications & Media Engagement

