B
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70,000
70,000 -- ads txt lines removed for top 10k US publishers (2024-02)
Over a two-week period, close to 70,000+ existing ads.txt lines were removed across the top 10,000 US publishers.
- Approximate count ('close to 70k+')
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Value
70,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2024-02
Entity
Sample Size
10,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
DataBeat
Primary
Tier A
https://databeat.io/blog/sellers-report-feb-2024/ ↗
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Ads.txt Lines:
Over the past 2 weeks around 75k+ new ads.txt lines have been added and close to 70k+ existing ads.txt lines were removed. This indicates that publishers are actively seeking new partnerships and regularly revising their existing connections, leading to frequent changes in ads.txt lin…
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DataBeat
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Methodology
DataBeat Sellers Report: ads.txt analysis over two weeks
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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top 10k US publishers: 70,000 ads txt lines removed. Source: DataBeat (2024-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ads-txt-lines-removed-feb-2024
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