Note: This article was initially published in ExchangeWire on May 10, 2018.
Over the past 14 years, The Media Trust has focused on one audacious goal: to fix the internet. The company has continuously monitored the internet for malvertising, creative quality, data leakage, and other compliance issues on behalf of organisations seeking to protect and monetise their mobile apps and websites. In this piece, ExchangeWire speaks with The Media Trust CEO Chris Olson; CRO Alex Calic; and European General Manager Matt O’Neill.
How The Media Trust delivers on its promise has evolved and expanded in scope over the years. The company’s products have noticeably shifted in approach from a reactive detect-and-notify to a pre-emptive identify-evaluate-notify-and-resolve. Olson and CTO Dave Crane started The Media Trust to meet publishers’ emergent need for a systematic way to verify whether an online ad published according to the contract with the ad buyer: on the right page location, to the right audience, at the right time. Next, they pioneered malware scanning and spawned services for malware prevention, creative QA, and data protection. Today, the company helps their clients address the three dimensions of digital risks – security, privacy, and quality – from a single platform known as ‘Digital Vendor Risk Management’. “We work with most of the largest publishers, advertising exchanges, demand side platforms (DSPs), brands, and e-commerce companies”, explains Olson.
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