Houston Chronicle
by Hearst Newspapers · 453564805
The app-ads.txt behind Houston Chronicle (houstonchronicle.com) declares 122 DIRECT lines and 118 RESELLER lines naming 54 ad systems. 165 of 229 lines checked against sellers.json match; 16 name a seller ID the network does not list, 16 declare the wrong seller type. The file last changed on 8 October 2026; the same file covers 2 apps of this developer.
Store data
- Rating
- 4.54
- Installs
- —
- Category
- News
- Contains ads
- Yes
14,573 ratings
Not published by Apple
Offers in-app purchases
app-ads.txt
- Domain
- houstonchronicle.com
- Status
- Found (200)
- Lines
- 240
- DIRECT / RESELLER
- 122 / 118
- OWNERDOMAIN
- hearst.com
- Parse errors
- 11
- Last fetched
- Oct 11, 2026
- Last changed
- Oct 8, 2026
sellers.json cross-check
240 lines checked
Verified
165
Errors
32
Warnings
33
- Seller ID not found 16
- DIRECT but intermediary 14
- RESELLER but publisher 2
- Seller type BOTH 32
- No sellers.json 1
- Unchecked 10
Declared supply tree
122 direct accounts across 37 direct sellers · 95 resellers buying from them · 23 not matched
| Direct seller | Accounts | Resold by | Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| connatix.com | 1 | 16 resellers: google.com, 33across.com, sharethrough.com … | 0 |
| playbuzz.com | 1 | 15 resellers: rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com, onetag.com … | 0 |
| nativo.com | 1 | 8 resellers: pubnative.net, media.net, smaato.com … | 0 |
| sharethrough.com | 2 | 7 resellers: smaato.com, 33across.com, openx.com … | 0 |
| wunderkind.co | 2 | 7 resellers: sharethrough.com, aps.amazon.com, smartadserver.com … | 1 |
| aps.amazon.com | 3 | 6 resellers: rubiconproject.com, sharethrough.com, openx.com … | 0 |
| seedtag.com | 2 | 6 resellers: pubmatic.com, rubiconproject.com, xandr.com … | 0 |
| minutemedia.com | 1 | 6 resellers: openx.com, pubmatic.com, media.net … | 0 |
| vidazoo.com | 2 | 5 resellers: appnexus.com, triplelift.com, pubmatic.com … | 1 |
| onetag.com | 2 | 4 resellers: video.unrulymedia.com, pubmatic.com, appnexus.com … | 1 |
| ogury.com | 1 | 3 resellers: rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com, appnexus.com | 0 |
| undertone.com | 1 | 3 resellers: pubmatic.com, rubiconproject.com, openx.com | 0 |
| + 25 more direct sellers in the full tree | |||
23 resellers, intermediary not matched to a direct seller of this app (account not found in the ad system's sellers.json: 8; the intermediary's domain is not a direct seller of this app: 7; the intermediary has no domain in sellers.json: 1; 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: 2).
Seller IDs the networks do not list
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | blis.com | 1254 | DIRECT |
| 24 | criteo.com | B-051026 | DIRECT |
| 44 | freewheel.tv | 1064705 | RESELLER |
| 50 | smartadserver.com | 4012 | RESELLER |
| 84 | media.net | 8CAOGYLTK | RESELLER |
| 94 | adswizz.com | 189983 | RESELLER |
| 95 | appnexus.com | 1577 | RESELLER |
| 102 | google.com | pub-6610802604051523 | DIRECT |
| 103 | google.com | pub-4199439549452353 | DIRECT |
| 109 | appnexus.com | 2758 | RESELLER |
| 124 | appnexus.com | 8173 | RESELLER |
| 206 | appnexus.com | 8035 | RESELLER |
| 229 | themediagrid.com | F5NLT8 | DIRECT |
| 295 | vidazoo.com | 5f32d40247485e0015012550 | DIRECT |
| 330 | wunderkind.co | 6158 | DIRECT |
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Last crawled Sun, Oct 11, 2026 4:58 PM. Data derived from the public store listing, the developer's app-ads.txt and the ad systems' sellers.json files.