In recognition of PubMatic’s work to continually raise digital advertising standards and provide superior performance, the ad tech company has been awarded The German Marketplace Deals (GMD) Quality Certificate from BVDW. The award solidifies PubMatic’s support BVDW’s commitment to proactively mitigating the risk of brand safety issues, reducing ad fraud, and improving consumers’ experience of digital advertising.
Building on the BVDW Code of Conduct Programmatic Advertising, The German Marketplace Deals (GMD) Quality Certificate is awarded to companies that have a standardised deal setup that ensures programmatic advertising campaigns can be implemented easily, transparently, and reliably. Platforms must meet several new rigorous criteria to achieve certification, including stable target group ranges, inventory quality, flexibility of trading, as well as being able to provide documentation and insight to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive.
“By collaborating with respected industry partners, such as the BVDW, enables PubMatic to share our experiences for the benefit of the whole industry,” said Ekkehardt Schlottbohm, Regional Vice President, Central & Northern Europe, PubMatic. “We take our responsibility to provide safe advertising environments very seriously and believe that initiatives like the GMD Quality Certification are vital to propelling the industry forward. To continually improve standards, we make significant investments into developing and enhancing our suite of supply media management tools, like our PubMatic’s Media Buyer Console (a self-serve deal setup and management platform, enables buyers to connect directly with publishers).”
