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DoubleVerify
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- Pricing model
- Not disclosed
- Category
- Verification, Quality & Brand Safety
- Engagement type
- Self-serve
- HQ
- Not disclosed
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What it is
Independent media quality and verification platform (DV Media AdVantage), built around three functions: Verify (media quality), Optimise (ad performance), Prove (campaign outcomes). Activates as segments integrated directly into a buyer's existing DSP, SSP or ad server, rather than operating as a standalone buying platform itself.
Recent developments
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Nielsen agreed to acquire DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion
· Nielsen press release / Bloomberg / Business Wire
All-cash deal at $13.60 per share, a 30% premium to DoubleVerify's 60-day trading average. Expected to close by Q1 2027, subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. Upon completion, DoubleVerify becomes a privately held part of Nielsen and delists from public markets. Directly material given this profile's positioning on DoubleVerify as an independent verification layer, that independence is the specific thing changing.
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Financial standing
DV
NASDAQ
Publicly tradedPending acquisition by Nielsen, announced August 2026 (all-cash, $2.15B, expected to close Q1 2027). Currently still an independent public company pending shareholder and regulatory approval, see this profile's Recent Developments for the full announcement.
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Product architecture
- 01DV Authentic Ad® — described as the industry's first MRC-accredited, globally-scaled quality metric, verifying an impression was fully viewed, by a real person, in a brand-safe environment, in the intended geo. MRC accreditation is a genuinely independent third-party standard, not a DV self-grade.
- 02Pre-bid and post-bid protection, applied as a combined approach — pre-bid eliminates bad-quality inventory before media is purchased (improving efficiency), post-bid layers ongoing monitoring, filtering and blocking to protect brand safety after the fact. Matches the standard industry pre-bid/post-bid distinction directly.
- 03Brand Safety and Suitability Toolkit — vendor-stated 100+ unique brand safety/suitability categories, each with three risk tiers, plus inclusion/exclusion/exception lists, specialised mobile app controls, and custom categories. The full category taxonomy itself is marked confidential in the source material and is not reproduced here, only the general capability.
- 04Scibids AI — automated bid optimisation across social and open-web programmatic, vendor-stated average of 4,500 optimisations per campaign per day, claimed 27%+ KPI efficiency gain. Multi-objective (brand/awareness, performance, cost reduction) using DSP, DV and third-party data sources as inputs. Does not change targeting or creative, only bidding.
- 05DV Pinnacle® and DV Campaign Automator™ — Pinnacle is a unified service/support layer with daily optimisation recommendations and cross-market interactive benchmarks. Campaign Automator specifically targets CM360 trafficking workflow, vendor-stated reduction from a 6-step-per-campaign manual process (times 20 campaigns) down to 0-2 steps, claimed 85% average time saved.
Case studies
OCBC Singapore
>99% overall brand suitability achieved with Authentic Brand Safety (ABS). Unprotected campaigns showed a 2.2x higher brand suitability violation rate than DV-protected campaigns. OCBC maintained violations under 1% (0.3-0.4%) throughout the measured period, versus 16.5% average day / 28.2% highest day for unprotected campaigns.
Vendor-reported, not independently verified
published DV Global Insights Report 2025
Diageo (via Scibids AI)
+50% increase in viewable impressions, 8.32 Scibids ROI, 33% improved vCPM efficiency, -29% CPM, +23% ROAS, -66% CPA, +79% unique visitors, +46% clicks, +420% units sold.
Vendor-reported, not independently verified
Anonymised technology client, high block-rate case
Block rate stabilised at under 1% (from 20%), viewability increased 3%, win rate increased 24% due to increased reach, roughly 14% media savings across the rest of the month, and 100 hours of annual labour saved for a single account in one region.
Vendor-reported, not independently verified
Partner ecosystem
3 named platform and measurement partnerships.
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