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63,086 -- ads txt lines removed for ads.txt ecosystem (2025-02)
In February 2025, 63,086 existing ads.txt lines were removed across the top 10k US publishers tracked.
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63,086
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2025-02
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30
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95
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Databeat
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https://databeat.io/blog/sellers-report-march-2025/ ↗
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Sellers Report: Ads.txt & SSP Performance in March 2025
Ads.txt Lines:
In February 2025, the addition of 67,862 new ads.txt lines and the removal of 63,086 existing lines resulted in a net change of approximately +4.8K lines. This positive net change is inline with last year’s trend where we have seen a net change of around +7K lines in Feb 2024.
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Analysis of ads.txt files from top 10k US publishers
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Industrymarketing
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ads.txt ecosystem: 63,086 ads txt lines removed. Source: Databeat (2025-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ads-txt-removed-lines-feb-2025
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