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Ads.txt stands for Authorized Digital Sellers and is a simple, flexible and secure method that publishers and distributors can use to publicly declare the companies they authorize to sell their digital inventory.

„Adcloud technology offers far-reaching possibilities to form our own performance network and hence serve the needs of our customers in the best way possible.

A9 manages product search and advertising technologies that are scalable, highly available, and cross-platform for Amazon and other clients.

Yieldmo is a mobile advertisement company.

Programmatic advertising marketplace.

Polar’s technology helps publishers accelerate branded content revenue growth.

Google Publisher Tag (GPT) is an ad tagging library with which you can dynamically build ad requests. GPT takes key details from you such as ad unit name, ad size, and custom targeting, builds the request, and displays the ad on web pages or mobile apps.

Actionable and optimized audience targeting.

Lijit Networks, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Federated Media Publishing. By providing innovative advertising services, audience analytics, and reader engagement tools to over 125,000 sites, Lijit helps online publishers grow their website, build their business and make more money. Lijit connects publishers with premium o...

Allows advertisers to engage the same consumer with consistent ads across multiple platforms

Advertising.com combines the industrys most advanced technology, precise targeting and a quality network to deliver results for advertisers & publishers.

AppNexus is the most advanced platform for buying real-time online advertising. AppNexus's clients include the largest ad networks and online advertisers. AppNexus offers a proprietary gateway to premier ad exchanges and ad inventory aggregators, and cloud computing capabilities for unrivaled scalability. AppNexus is based in Ne...

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and marketers make decisions. Our cloud applications and Internet-scale architecture work together to provide a complete picture of customers, execute cross-channel campaigns, and connect with a worldwide ecosystem of over 100 partners. Turn is...

Since 2006, PubMatic (www.PubMatic.com) has been at the forefront of developing innovative technology to help publishers automate the process of evaluating and selling their advertising inventory. PubMatic gives premium publishers a real-time media selling platform for managing revenue and brand strategy. PubMatic's platform com...

Video advertising serving technology.

The Trade Desk is a buy-side platform providing access to all RTB inventory for display, television, video, social, mobile, and more.

A media optimization solution that helps you forecast the best mix of search, display and social ads based on your budget. It also automates the execution of your media plan.

Twitter advertising includes conversion tracking and re-marketing tools.

Premium video monetization solutions.

Online Video Advertising Platform

Outbrain (www.outbrain.com) is the leading content discovery platform, reaching a highly engaged audience through distribution on top publisher sites, including CNN, Fox News, Hachette Filipacchi Media, Mashable, MSNBC and Slate. Outbrain provides publishers a service for recommended links to increase traffic and generate reve...

MediaVoice is used by top publishers around the world to serve native advertising and sponsored content to their readers as they would the rest of their stories, while serving and tracking these stories like any other ad.

Top publishers use Sharethrough's technology to create and manage native advertising placements.

A free and open source library for publishers to quickly implement header bidding.

Criteo is a "personalized retargeting company" that works with Internet retailers to serve personalized online display advertisements to consumers that have previously visited the advertiser's website With Criteo, advertisers can reach more customers with the same return-on-investment as they get from search marketing. Every da...

Linkedin Advertisers, websites using Linkedin Conversion Tracking.

OpenX is one of the world's leading providers of digital and mobile advertising technology, enabling businesses to manage and maximize their ad revenue. OpenX products, including OpenX Enterprise, OpenX Market and OpenX Lift provide a comprehensive Software-as-a-Service platform by combining ad serving, an ad exchange and a brea...

AdSense is an ad serving application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in the program to enable text, image, and, more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google not only offers AdSense for ...

Amazon Publisher Services is a suite of cloud services that brings solutions built by Amazon to help publishers build, monetize and grow their digital media business.

Advertising optimization service.

Condé Nast is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences.

Index Exchange is a provider of online media solutions. With a network reach of over half the US digital audience. Previously known as Casale Media.

ADTECH is a global technology solutions company and is AOL Advertising's ad serving platform. The company's flagship product, ADTECH IQ is an integrated ad serving platform that enables web publishers, ad networks, agencies and advertisers to measure, manage, and serve online advertising campaigns including display, video and mo...

DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Companies come to DoubleClick for expertise in ad serving, media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium.

Publisher advertising network.

Skimlinks is a content-to-commerce platform that helps publishers monetize their editorial content through affiliate marketing and the syndication of the resulting shopping-intent data to marketers. Their key products are SkimLinks, a product that turns product references into affiliated-shopping links, and Audiences by Skimlin...

End-to-end digital marketing solution

Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

A freely available eCommerce plugin that enables shop facilities on your WordPress website.

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites. It also displays advertisin...

Parse.ly empowers companies to understand, own and improve digital audience engagement through data.

Bounce Exchange enables clients to transform their web traffic by serving content tailored to different visitor segments.

Quantcast helps advertisers and publishers better understand, find and access targeted audiences in real-time. Marketers use Quantcast to amplify their targeting and reach consumers who look just like their best performing customers with unprecedented performance and scale. Publishers use Quantcast to directly measure and packag...

ScorecardResearch is service of Full Circle Studies, Inc., is part of the comScore, Inc. market research community, a leading global market research effort that studies and reports on Internet trends and behavior. Here are all the website that put a pixel of Scorecard Research

This website contains tracking information that allows admins to see Facebook Insights out of Facebook to this domain.

Parse.ly provides web analytics tools and APIs built specifically for the needs of online content sites. Its flagship product, Parse.ly Dash, provides historical, real-time, and predictive insights for the web's best publishers.

Show you how visitors are really using your website, collect feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

The enhanced ecommerce plug-in for analytics.js enables the measurement of user interactions with products on ecommerce websites across the user's shopping experience, including: product impressions, product clicks, viewing product details, adding a product to a shopping cart, initiating the checkout process, transactions, and r...

Websites using some form of Captcha technology on them.

Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

Websites using some type of Facebook technology.

Websites using Amazon technologies

Websites using Google technologies

Identifies administrators for a page which will be able publish data to your wall if you like any content within this page.

All Twitter's social tools, including buttons and timeline widgets.

The Tweet Button is a small widget which allows visitors to share content and connect on Twitter.

Facebook Connect allow users to connect their Facebook identity, friends and, privacy to any website. Facebook Connect is Facebook's first attempt to allow access to Facebook user data outside of Facebook itself. The company is describing it as giving third party applications access to much of the same data as Facebook applicat...

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript.

Errorception is a error reporting service for client-side in-browser JavaScript errors. Client-side JavaScript errors occur in the end-users' browsers. It is very hard to find out about them, since logs of such errors are lost. Errorception attempts to solve this problem by trying to get as much detail as possible about such ...

Google Tag Manager makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags including analytics, remarketing, and more.

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

A jQuery slider toolkit.

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution.

Rollbar collects and analyzes errors on web and mobile apps.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

The CacheFly Content Delivery Network will ensure the fastest, most reliable delivery of your rich media.

GDPR, Privacy Management Software and Cookie consent services.

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

Stripe is a developer-friendly way to accept payments online and in mobile apps.

websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

Websites with FAQ page

Content Security Policy is best used as defense-in-depth, to reduce the harm caused by content injection attacks.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

Sites who has this tag are verfied by google to use WebMaster tools

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

When running in a browser on a mobile phone, "format-detection" meta tag determines whether or not telephone numbers in the HTML content will appear as hypertext links. The user can click a link with a telephone number to initiate a phone call to that phone number.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

Wesites using favicon rel tag

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.

A scheme.org entity that represents a person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.