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DoubleVerify unveils GenAI protection to shield brands from low-quality AI content
MUMBAI: The leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics DoubleVerify (DV) announced the launch of its generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) website avoidance and detection solution. This innovative offering helps advertisers navigate the risks posed by low-quality, AI-generated content and protect their brand reputation online.
According to DV’s 2024 Global Insights Trends Report, 54 per cent of marketers believe that generative artificial intelligence negatively impacts media quality. DV has identified numerous long-tail websites that leverage GenAI tools to churn out low-quality content, often rife with errors, editorial inconsistencies and plagiarism. With DV’s GenAI solution, clients can seamlessly enable post-bid monitoring within their brand suitability profile and employ DV authentic brand suitability across leading DSPs for pre-bid avoidance.
“Advertisers are focused on maximising campaign performance while ensuring that their ads appear within suitable environments that align with their brand,” said DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski. “By expanding DV’s brand suitability solutions to identify low-quality, AI-generated content, we’re empowering advertisers to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving ecosystem.”
DV uses a nuanced approach to classify websites within its GenAI websites category. The company evaluates sites and subdomains predominantly exhibiting AI-generated, low-quality content with minimal human oversight. Poor quality signals include repetitive cookie-cutter formats, chatbot-generated text within articles, placeholder content, and other markers that may concern advertisers.
Powered by proprietary detection technology that combines AI-driven analysis with human expertise, DV’s GenAI solution ensures precision in identifying and categorising low-quality content. Importantly, websites that use generative AI responsibly and maintain reasonable quality standards are not categorised, allowing advertisers to balance quality reach with suitability.
DV’s category-based implementation streamlines activation and ensures dynamic updates, eliminating the manual effort of maintaining inclusion and exclusion lists. This approach enables advertisers to stay ahead of the ever-growing landscape of low-quality, AI-generated content.
In addition, aligning pre-bid controls with post-bid measurement offers advertisers a comprehensive media authentication strategy. Pre-bid protection evaluates content before impressions are transacted to support the delivery of ads to appropriate environments. Post-bid measurement analyzes content after impressions are purchased, offering advertisers insights into suitable ad delivery. This dual approach helps brands optimize future campaigns and media investment decisions.
Currently, DV’s GenAI classification applies to English-language content with plans to launch across other languages in the future.
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With 57 per cent single new users, Ashley Madison rebrands as discreet dating platform
Platform says majority of new members now identify as single
INDIA: Ashley Madison is shedding the “married-dating” label that defined it for two decades, repositioning itself as a platform for discreet dating in what it calls the post-social media age.
The rebrand, unveiled in India on 27 February, 2026, marks a structural shift in business model and identity. Once synonymous with married dating, the company now describes itself as the “premier destination for discreet dating” under a new tagline: Where Desire Meets Discretion.
The pivot is data-driven. Internal figures show that 57 per cent of global sign-ups between 1 January and 31 December, 2025 identified as single: a notable departure from the platform’s married core. The company argues that its community has already evolved beyond its original positioning.
“In an age where our lives have been constantly put on public display, privacy has become the new luxury,” said Ashley Madison chief strategy officer Paul Keable. He framed the platform’s offering as “ethical discretion” for singles, separated, divorced and non-monogamous users seeking private connections.
The shift also taps into wider digital fatigue. A global survey conducted by YouGov for Ashley Madison, covering 13,071 adults across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US, found mounting discomfort with hyper-public online lives.
Among dating app users, 30 per cent cited constant swiping and messaging as a source of fatigue, while 24 per cent pointed to pressure to curate public-facing profiles and early personal disclosure. Some 27 per cent said fears of screenshots or information being shared contributed to exhaustion; an equal share cited unwanted attention.
The retreat from oversharing appears broader. According to the survey, 46 per cent of adults actively try to keep most aspects of their life private online. Only 8 per cent feel comfortable sharing most aspects publicly, while 35 per cent say they are becoming more selective about what they disclose.
Ashley Madison is betting that this cultural recalibration towards controlled visibility can be monetised. By doubling down on privacy infrastructure and reframing itself around discretion rather than infidelity, the company is attempting to convert reputational baggage into a premium proposition.
