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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

I really appreciate the level of insight given with this tool and considering clients constant demand for more fraud and brand safety soloutions, Mediaguard is an essential part of our overall approach to security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

I think it'd be good to have some more pointed recomendations that we can follow based on the data thats provided to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a 3rd party check for fraudulent requests is valuable because clients are very sensitive about how their money is being spent and giving them the peace of mind that we reject any requests that has a high chance of being fraudulent helps instill confidence in our platform as a whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MediaGuard Overview

What is MediaGuard?

HUMAN has the #1 Bot Management Strategy according to The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022. HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that protects enterprises from bot attacks to keep digital experiences human. We have the most advanced Human Verification Engine that protects applications, APIs and digital media from bot attacks, preventing losses and improving the digital experience for real humans. Today, we verify the humanity of more than 20 trillion digital interactions per week for some of the largest companies and internet platforms. Protect your digital business with HUMAN.

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Product Description

MediaGuard is fast. Ideal for a blocking or preventative use case, it combines the accuracy and resilience of FraudSensor with powerful machine learning to deliver precise bot decisions in milliseconds. With a simple API call you can now eliminate fraud at lightspeed, at scale and with confidence.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Knowing what sophisticated bots look like requires seeing them. And we see them all over the internet, more than any vendor because of our broad tag deployment -- almost every programmatic ad collects a signal for HUMAN. This means we’ve already observed 80% of users in our programmatic advertising solution before seeing them on user applications.

That’s why we consistently find bots and abuse other providers do not, and how we make the "bot or not" decision more accurately than any other solution.


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HUMAN
Company Website
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
New York, NY
Twitter
@SecureWithHUMAN
3,553 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
494 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

HUMAN (formerly White Ops) is a cybersecurity company that protects organizations by disrupting bot attacks, digital fraud and abuse. We leverage modern defense to disrupt the economics of cybercrime by increasing the cost to cybercriminals while simultaneously reducing the cost of collective defense. Today, we verify the humanity of more than
0 trillion digital interactions per week across advertising, marketing, e-commerce, government, education and enterprise security, putting us in a position to win against cybercriminals.


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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"With roots deeply embedded in security expertise, Human has become very customer centric"
I use the Human dashboard, interacting with MediaGuard every day. I like the sense of security it offers both me as a quality specialist as well as...
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Pete D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"MediaGuard helps us rest easy"
The 24/7 dashboard and reporting tool are great for round the clock troubleshooting and monitoring. The 1x month touchbases with our account team a...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"An Essential Solution for an Increasingly Fraud-Sensitive Programmatic Landscape"
I really appreciate the level of insight given with this tool and considering clients constant demand for more fraud and brand safety soloutions, M...
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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

I use the Human dashboard, interacting with MediaGuard every day. I like the sense of security it offers both me as a quality specialist as well as it offers our buyers. I really enjoy working with our account team. When I first started workign with WhiteOps, the security DNA was strong, but not the service aspect. Emails went unanswered, my contact wasn't helpful. But, in the last few years, the turnaround is remarkable, and I note it often internally at my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

The UI! It seems very web 2.0. For example, if I'm configuring a quick report in explore view, but forget to change the data source to MediaGuard, I lose all my selections as they reset. I would prefer it to be much more user friendly, able to adjust on the fly to user inputs so repeating inputs isn't required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

1) Blocks IVT traffic before it goes to auction, thus protecting buyers from invalid traffic. 2) Allows me to dive in and parse out inventory and sellers based on their history of IVT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PD
Supply Partnerships Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

The 24/7 dashboard and reporting tool are great for round the clock troubleshooting and monitoring. The 1x month touchbases with our account team and the montly report they provide is extremely valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

I haven't personally experienced a downside in my time with this product/service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

MediaGuard monitors IVT and fraud across our DSP. We specialize in pharma advertising, which means high expecations, high budgets, etc. Having MediaGuard as an extra layer of fraud prevention is very reassuring and goes along way with our clients. Clients want to know their ad dollars are being spent efficiently, on quality supply that an actual human is seeing/interacting with. MediaGuard helps give us that confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adam S.
AS
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

Technology. The technology for us was a the top of the list when it came to evaluating vendors for filtering out fraud and SIVT. When we started with HUMAN, they were still a younger company, but we felt a company that had its roots in combating fraud and bots and was the sole purpose of their business was the best for our clients in order to layer on protection. As time has gone on, we have found that the customer service is incredible. The team we work with continues to impress us and delivers white glove service that makes using the product as easy as possible. Ultimately, we feel protected and cared for by HUMAN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

The service is expensive, however, it is expensive for a reason, it is the best in the business and we deem it necessary to protect our clients from fraud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

MediaGuard allows us to have protection, with the highest MRC certification, and allow us to share this with our clients so that they are aware they are being protected which is valuable. This also helps us in any cases where someone may believe they have found fraud, we are able to bring in the team at HUMAN to help us navigate this tricky situation. However, we haven't had a single complaint in the last 4 years and for that we are very grateful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

Allows us to get detailed reporting for any of our DSP partners or advertisers and provide clear insights into the fraud detection efforts we are implementing.

This keeps our supply chain clean and allows us to dispute any issues we encounter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

Mostly just the gaps between fraudsensor and mediaguard that stem from where they do their scanning. I frequently go into the UI and build a report without remembering to switch products and it just makes me duplicate efforts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ensuring that our supply is fraud and IVT free is the primary, and being able to optimize, troubleshoot, and verify when a client flags some kind of issue. The lack of a uniform scanning process across IVT vendors means we see various results but having out system run on HUMAN puts us in a strong position to confirm our supply is clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

The ability to see not only IVT broken by individual publishers, channels, domains, bundles, etc. The granularity capability of the reporting and the clarification on flagged reasons. The client service team behind the product is fantastic to work with and take any notes I may have and turn them into product features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

I don't have any significant complaints; I would like to understand more about the guidlines or process behind determining what is considered invalid traffic and industry norms. Like why does every traffic validation service report differently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

MediaGuard is helping us identify issues we find in traffic, like CTV and App, that tend to be the most problematic. They have done extensive investigations and sting operations that we have helped in, to eliminate and identify these culprits and methods of fraud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akiyuki Y.
AY
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

The quality of IVT protection. Because of MediaGuard, we can target real people not random bot traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

We want deprecated app list, but I believe they will have this function soon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

MediaGuard protects us from delivering to meaningless random robots. They help us deliver our campaigns to real people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alon K.
AK
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

The fact that MediaGuard protects us from IVT, the easy dashboard and their ability to hear us out and help whenever possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

The downside of using MediaGuardare the reports that aren't very understandable at all times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blocks IVT, by that it's giving us credibility when working with other partners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Riley M.
RM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

Quick & Transparent reporting. A recognizable/trusted source for measuring IVT in the CTV space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

Lack of training around the platform and limited knowledge of the product's capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides insight to our DSP partners on fraud & our active stance in protecting our marketplace from bad 'sources'. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

MediaGuard protects our clients from adfraud giving us peace of mind on our SSP and for our O&O inventory. Through sampling, we can stay ahead of the latest fraud attacks and monitor certain thresholds at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

MediaGuard can sometimes have a "false positive." This typically happens when there is a new supply format introduced or a publisher is not following the appropriate IAB programmatic guidelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Monitors, blocks and reports on ad fraud

- Prevention from new and old attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about MediaGuard?

Ease of Use,

Visualization of Metrics with timestamps

Report Creation & Scheduling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MediaGuard?

At times the report downloaded are incomplete, once we refresh the portal & re-run the query, it works fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MediaGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Filtering IVT from Ad requests we receive per day & monetizing only the valid ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.