USA TODAY: US & Breaking News
by USA TODAY · 504631398
The app-ads.txt behind USA TODAY: US & Breaking News (usatoday.com) declares 72 DIRECT lines and 88 RESELLER lines naming 51 ad systems. 96 of 147 lines checked against sellers.json match; 22 name a seller ID the network does not list, 6 declare the wrong seller type. The file last changed on 4 October 2026; the same file covers 3 apps of this developer.
Store data
- Rating
- 4.5
- Installs
- —
- Category
- News
- Contains ads
- Yes
241,689 ratings
Not published by Apple
Offers in-app purchases
app-ads.txt
- Domain
- usatoday.com
- Status
- Found (200)
- Lines
- 160
- DIRECT / RESELLER
- 72 / 88
- OWNERDOMAIN
- gannett.com
- MANAGERDOMAIN
- videoelephant.tv
- Parse errors
- 2
- Last fetched
- Oct 12, 2026
- Last changed
- Oct 4, 2026
sellers.json cross-check
160 lines checked
Verified
96
Errors
28
Warnings
26
- Seller ID not found 22
- DIRECT but intermediary 4
- RESELLER but publisher 2
- Seller type BOTH 23
- No sellers.json 3
- Unchecked 10
Declared supply tree
72 direct accounts across 33 direct sellers · 65 resellers buying from them · 23 not matched
| Direct seller | Accounts | Resold by | Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| taboola.com | 4 | 16 resellers: freewheel.tv, video.unrulymedia.com, themediagrid.com … | 1 |
| stnvideo.com | 1 | 13 resellers: yieldmo.com, video.unrulymedia.com, triplelift.com … | 0 |
| amagi.com | 1 | 11 resellers: xandr.com, tvp.tv, tremorhub.com … | 0 |
| nativo.com | 1 | 10 resellers: smartadserver.com, smaato.com, sharethrough.com … | 0 |
| seedtag.com | 1 | 5 resellers: xandr.com, smartadserver.com, sharethrough.com … | 0 |
| minutemedia.com | 1 | 4 resellers: triplelift.com, rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com … | 0 |
| undertone.com | 1 | 3 resellers: rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com, openx.com | 0 |
| blis.com | 1 | 2 resellers: themediagrid.com, rubiconproject.com | 0 |
| lijit.com | 2 | 1 reseller: video.unrulymedia.com | 1 |
| triplelift.com | 8 | — | 4 |
| media.net | 5 | — | 0 |
| rubiconproject.com | 5 | — | 3 |
| + 21 more direct sellers in the full tree | |||
23 resellers, intermediary not matched to a direct seller of this app (sellers.json lists the account as a publisher, not an intermediary: 2; account not found in the ad system's sellers.json: 6; the intermediary's domain is not a direct seller of this app: 9; the ad system publishes no usable sellers.json: 1; not cross-checked yet: 5).
Seller IDs the networks do not list
22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | openx.com | 559091134 | RESELLER |
| 29 | criteo.com | B-062125 | DIRECT |
| 65 | gannett.com | 1 | DIRECT |
| 68 | advertising.com | 28613 | DIRECT |
| 84 | openx.com | 540060988 | DIRECT |
| 85 | rubiconproject.com | 10968 | DIRECT |
| 87 | rubiconproject.com | 17346 | DIRECT |
| 88 | rubiconproject.com | 17816 | DIRECT |
| 91 | smaato.com | 1100033996 | DIRECT |
| 93 | smaato.com | 1100041070 | DIRECT |
| 101 | yieldmo.com | 2150737881135219824 | DIRECT |
| 104 | appnexus.com | 1908 | RESELLER |
| 107 | google.com | pub-5995202563537249 | RESELLER |
| 111 | pubmatic.com | 156719-D | DIRECT |
| 161 | taboola.com | 1111116 | DIRECT |
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Last crawled Mon, Oct 12, 2026 8:39 PM. Data derived from the public store listing, the developer's app-ads.txt and the ad systems' sellers.json files.