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How ExoClick protects Publishers on our network
Bryan McDonald — Director of Compliance
October 4, 2024 — Ad security, Company, Compliance, Google, IAB, Publisher tips, Security
UPDATED 4, October 2024 - If you are wondering how ExoClick protects Publishers, our Compliance team is constantly working to guarantee ad chain flow security, ad quality and full industry compliance at all times to protect our Publishers. ExoClick’s mission is to ensure a great browsing experience and that all parties within the ad supply chain are protected, we have strict policies and guidelines that govern the kinds of ads... Read More
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ExoClick’s Ultimate Optimization Guide for Publishers
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
June 8, 2020 — Business intelligence, Google, Platform features, Push Notifications, Video
We are constantly helping you, our Publishers, to grow your business by working with you to monetise your traffic, optimise your ad zones, stay Google compliant, give you business tips and ultimately improving your revenues. We have put together 11 great problem solving solutions using ExoClick’s Publisher platform tools/features to overcome 2020 challenges and to improve your bottom line, providing you with the Ultimate Guide for Optimization! 1. Push... Read More
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Tips for Push Notifications on the latest browser versions
Giles Hirst — Head of Communication
February 6, 2020 — Ad formats, Compliance, Desktop, Google, Mobile, Push Notifications
Both Firefox and Chrome have made changes to the way users can opt-in to receive Push Notifications from a website. According to Chrome the issue that they are addressing is that many websites request the Push Notification opt-in when a user first visits a website, rather than at contextually relevant moments in the user’s journey. Unsolicited permissions requests interrupt the user’s workflow and result in a bad user experience. Chrome... Read More
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Advertisers! ExoClick aligns banner advertising sizes with IAB standards
From February 2020, ExoClick is changing the maximum weight that it will accept from advertisers for all banner creatives to 150KB, this is to ensure that banner ads are aligned with the IAB’s industry recommendations as well as Google ones. This applies to ALL types of banners. Maximum Banner File Size Changes: Current Banner Maximum File Size: 1MB New Banner Maximum File Size: 150KB Fullpage Interstitial Maximum File Size: 300KB... Read More
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Publishers! ExoClick aligns banner advertising sizes with IAB standards
From February 2020, ExoClick is changing the maximum weight that it will accept from advertisers for all banner creatives to 150KB, this is to ensure that banner ads are aligned with the IAB’s industry recommendations as well as Google ones. This applies to ALL types of banners. Maximum Banner File Size Changes: Current Banner Maximum File Size: 1MB New Banner Maximum File Size: 150KB Further ways ExoClick is reducing banner... Read More
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Google to mark HTTP webpages as “not secure”
From the 1st of July 2018 Google will begin marking all HTTP websites and webpages as "not secure". This change will coincide with the release of their updated browser, Chrome 68. The marking will appear within the URL browser navigation bar at the top and will look like this: You can find additional information on Googles security blog article here: So what will this mean? Google has been actively leading the market... Read More
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Billboard Banner: Publisher and Advertiser tips
This new format is totally compliant with Google and offers Publishers a new ad zone. The Billboard ad is a rich media ad and is positioned at the top of a website’s page. Billboard ads are too big to miss at 970x250 and offer Publishers a great way to monetise their traffic. A Similar format is used on YouTube.com. Here we give some tips for Publishers and Advertisers about this... Read More
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Advertisers: 2018 is the year of user experience
Google's new restrictions are trying to ensure that 2018 is all about user experience and for publishers and advertisers, this will be the key to success in 2018. Advertisers should use Google compliant ad formats and creatives which are designed to enhance the user experience and not distract the user from viewing the content of a publisher's site. Two formats that are are totally compliant are native advertising and pre-roll... Read More
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Publishers: 2018 is the year of user experience…
With the new restrictions from Google kicking in, it is clear that user experience will be the key to publisher success in 2018. Google rewards publisher sites that provide value to users. Delivering high quality content and compliant ad formats ensures a publisher's site will remain in Google’s good books. This allows the publisher to receive high quality traffic, which every media buyer wants. Two formats that are are totally... Read More
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Google’s new rules & ExoClick’s solutions for publishers
Recently, Google announced that Chrome’s built-in ad blocker will go live as of February 15th and many Publishers already received notifications from Google requesting that they align their websites with the new rules. In this blog post, we will clarify the situation and explain ExoClick’s solutions to these new regulations. Google’s roll out schedule is as follows: 23rd January: Google will start blocking window.open/new tabs for what it considers Abusive... Read More
