Boltive
Boltive (formerly Ad Lightning) protects brands, publishers, and platforms from ad security and compliance violations. It uses AI-driven scanning, malware detection, and real-time monitoring to detect and block malicious or unwanted ads, including those that violate brand safety or run ads with inappropriate content.
It also includes tools like Privacy Guard, which audits consent management systems (CMPs), checks whether opt-in/opt-out signals are honored, detects unauthorized data sharing downstream in the ad supply chain, supports measurement across both web and mobile apps, and detects issues like poor ad performance, blank slots, slow loading, or ads that hurt user experience.
According to our data, Boltive ranks 106th among the online advertising platforms we track.
It has 0.08% of the advertising market share and is detected on 0.01% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- 🏷️ Previous name
- Ad Lightning
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Advertising
- Rank: 106
- Market share: 0.08%
- Fraud Prevention
- Rank: 18
- Market share: 1.4%
🏆 Boltive Awards
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Fraud Prevention category.
- ⬆️ 52nd most popular in the United States in the Advertising category.
⚡ Sites Using Boltive
We have data on 464 websites that use Boltive advertising technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Boltive is nypost.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #140 | United States | American English | |
| 2 | #217 | United States | English | |
| 3 | #268 | United States | American English | |
| 4 | #327 | Canada | English | |
| 5 | #1,538 | Australia | English | |
| 6 | #1,787 | English | ||
| 7 | #2,217 | English | ||
| 8 | #3,143 | American English | ||
| 9 | #3,492 | United States | English | |
| 10 | #3,745 | United States | English | |
| 11 | #5,546 | English | ||
| 12 | #6,207 | United States | American English | |
| 13 | #6,566 | English | ||
| 14 | #6,598 | United States | English | |
| 15 | #6,644 | United States | English | |
| 16 | #6,967 | United States | English | |
| 17 | #6,988 | United States | English | |
| 18 | #8,137 | United States | English | |
| 19 | #8,865 | United States | English | |
| 20 | #9,659 | Japan | Japanese |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Boltive:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the General News category.
Most of the sites using Boltive are from the United States.
- United States 93.3%
- Japan 2.9%
- United Kingdom 1.4%
- Australia 0.5%
- Germany 0.5%
- Canada 0.2%
- Czech Republic 0.2%
- Guam 0.2%
- Indonesia 0.2%
- Other 0.6%
Most Boltive users speak English.
- English 96.3%
- Japanese 2.6%
- German 0.4%
- Italian 0.2%
- Dutch 0.2%
- Chinese 0.2%
- Other 0.1%
Boltive advertising technology is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 90.3%
- .net 3.2%
- .org 1.7%
- .jp 1.1%
- .co.jp 0.9%
- .de 0.4%
- .co.uk 0.4%
- .info 0.2%
- .ca 0.2%
- Other 1.6%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Boltive include general news, entertainment, and blogs and wiki.
- General News 68.9%
- Entertainment 6.4%
- Blogs/Wiki 6.1%
- Marketing/Merchandising 2.7%
- Public Information 2.7%
- Sports 2.7%
- Business 2%
- Portal Sites 1.4%
- Education/Reference 1%
- Other 6.1%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Boltive's headquarters?
Boltive is located in Kirkland, Washington, United States.
Which country uses Boltive the most?
The majority of Boltive users are from the United States.
Who uses Boltive?
According to our data, Boltive is used on hundreds of sites, including such established ones as nypost.com,
huffpost.com, and
buzzfeed.com.
How does Boltive stack up against the competition?
Boltive is a moderately popular advertising technology, ranking ahead of 94 other online advertising platforms we track.
What are the alternatives to Boltive?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Boltive may include 
DoubleVerify, 
Confiant, and GeoEdge.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,718,585 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.