Popular Science
by Ziff Davis · 364049283
The app-ads.txt behind Popular Science (popsci.com) declares 139 DIRECT lines and 224 RESELLER lines naming 70 ad systems. 242 of 351 lines checked against sellers.json match; 37 name a seller ID the network does not list, 35 declare the wrong seller type. The file last changed on 10 October 2026.
Store data
- Rating
- 4.3
- Installs
- —
- Category
- News
- Contains ads
- —
135 ratings
Not published by Apple
app-ads.txt
- Domain
- popsci.com
- Status
- Found (200)
- Lines
- 363
- DIRECT / RESELLER
- 139 / 224
- OWNERDOMAIN
- ziffdavis.com
- Parse errors
- 52
- Last fetched
- Oct 10, 2026
- Last changed
- Oct 10, 2026
sellers.json cross-check
363 lines checked
Verified
242
Errors
72
Warnings
40
- Seller ID not found 37
- DIRECT but intermediary 34
- RESELLER but publisher 1
- Seller type BOTH 36
- Confidential seller 1
- No sellers.json 3
- Unchecked 9
Declared supply tree
139 direct accounts across 48 direct sellers · 186 resellers buying from them · 38 not matched
38 resellers, intermediary not matched to a direct seller of this app (the intermediary's domain is not a direct seller of this app: 8; account not found in the ad system's sellers.json: 24; not cross-checked yet: 4; the ad system publishes no usable sellers.json: 1; sellers.json lists the account as a publisher, not an intermediary: 1).
Seller IDs the networks do not list
37 lines of this app-ads.txt name an account ID that the ad system's sellers.json does not contain; the first 15 in file order. Usually a stale line or a typo in the ID. How to fix it
| Line | Ad system | Account ID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | google.com | pub-3061519823538393 | DIRECT |
| 9 | google.com | pub-8820362605711196 | DIRECT |
| 28 | triplelift.com | 158 | DIRECT |
| 41 | blis.com | 1232 | DIRECT |
| 42 | adyoulike.com | 7427fc8254bfe7e73fe5a87b9319a0bd | DIRECT |
| 62 | criteo.com | B-062691 | DIRECT |
| 67 | google.com | pub-1066013786354051 | RESELLER |
| 73 | appnexus.com | 2758 | RESELLER |
| 79 | revcontent.com | 110029 | RESELLER |
| 94 | appnexus.com | 8173 | RESELLER |
| 125 | media.net | 8CU47YE5N | DIRECT |
| 132 | openx.com | 559911747 | RESELLER |
| 158 | appnexus.com | 7290 | RESELLER |
| 159 | playground.xyz | 455526ec | DIRECT |
| 160 | playground.xyz | b68ec732 | DIRECT |
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Last crawled Sun, Oct 11, 2026 5:24 PM. Data derived from the public store listing, the developer's app-ads.txt and the ad systems' sellers.json files.