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DoubleVerify

Name: DoubleVerify
Brand: DoubleVerify

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Pricing model: Not disclosed
Category: Verification, Quality & Brand Safety
Engagement type: Self-serve
HQ: United States

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What it is

Independent digital media measurement and verification platform built around DV Authentic Ad, an MRC-accredited metric confirming an impression was fraud-free, brand-suitable, viewable and delivered in the correct geography. Core product lines: the DV Media AdVantage Platform for advertisers (Verify: Fraud, Brand Suitability, Context, Viewability, Attention; plus Optimize and Prove modules), DV Neura, DV Publisher Suite (Revenue Analytics, Inventory Quality, Quality Targeting, Authentic Direct), and DV Marketplace Suite. Covers Social Media, CTV and Commerce Media as named channels.

Recent developments

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Nielsen agreed to acquire DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion
6 August 2026 · 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.
Read full article from Nielsen press release / Bloomberg / Business Wire →

Financial standing

New York Stock Exchange

Publicly traded

Pending acquisition by Nielsen, announced August 2026 (all-cash, ~$2.15B, expected to close Q1 2027). Currently still an independent public company (NYSE: DV) pending shareholder and regulatory approval.

Market cap intentionally not stored as a static figure: as of this write the share price is anchored near the pending Nielsen deal terms ($13.60/share) rather than trading purely on fundamentals. Use the Google Finance link for a current quote, and check whether the Nielsen deal has closed before describing DoubleVerify as independent or as a Nielsen subsidiary.

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Product architecture

01DV Media AdVantage Platform (Advertisers): Verify (Fraud, Brand Suitability, Context, Viewability, Attention), Optimize (in-flight campaign adjustment), and Prove (outcome measurement), the core three-stage advertiser workflow.
02DV Neura: named as a distinct product in DoubleVerify's own site navigation, positioned alongside but separate from the core AdVantage platform; specific function not detailed on the pages reviewed.
03DV Publisher Suite: Revenue Analytics, Inventory Quality, Quality Targeting, and Authentic Direct, the sell-side counterpart to the advertiser-facing Verify/Optimize/Prove workflow.
04DV Marketplace Suite: a named product line distinct from both the advertiser and publisher suites, per DoubleVerify's own navigation; specific function not detailed on the pages reviewed.
05Named solutions and channels: DV Authentic AdVantage and DV Authentic Streaming TV as packaged solutions, sold across three named channels specifically called out in navigation: Social Media, CTV, and Commerce Media, reflecting DoubleVerify's expansion beyond its original display/video-only measurement roots.

Distinctive asset

DV Authentic Ad is MRC-accredited, a materially stronger evidence tier than a self-reported metric since the accreditation is granted independently by the Media Rating Council. DoubleVerify was first to launch a scalable CTV viewability solution (February 2023) and used that launch to surface a genuinely useful, checkable industry problem: it found 1 in 4 top CTV environments and apps continued serving ads after the TV was turned off (the "TV off" issue), which a separate industry study estimated cost advertisers over $1 billion in CTV ad waste in a single year. Per its own SEC S-1 filing, DoubleVerify was the first third-party solution to gain MRC accreditation for integrated viewability measurement on Facebook (2020), evidence of unusually deep, verified walled-garden access relative to competitors.

Market coverage

Per its own SEC-filed materials, DoubleVerify opened international offices in EMEA (Germany, France), APAC (Singapore, Australia) and Brazil in 2018, expanding further into Japan and India in 2020. A third-party company profile (Agile Brand Guide) cites 31 offices in 25 countries and over 2,000 customers as of 2026, though this was not independently verified against a primary DoubleVerify source.