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Prohibited Content

The following content is prohibited across all Pontiac products. Any ad unit flagged under one of these categories will be blocked from serving on the platform and may result in account suspension or forfeiture.

  • Profanity, Hate Speech or Defamatory Language
  • Graphic or excessive violence
  • Pornography, Nudity, Obscenities, or other ‘Adult’ Content
  • Inappropriate content (at our discretion)
  • Sale of, or instructions for creating, guns, bombs, ammunition, or weapons
  • Discussing or promoting sale of federally illegal drugs, including marijuana, illegal pharmaceuticals, and other schedule 1 drugs.
  • Malware, privacy and security violations
  • Broken Ads or blank creative
  • Enabling or Permitting Piracy
  • Charging for government forms and services
  • Misappropriation of Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret, or Patent
  • Executes or Downloads Files without User Interactions
  • Causing degradation of site performance (ex: excessive animation, weight)
  • Illegal Material or Content
  • Misleading or sensationalized messaging, content, or images
  • Pop ups or any ad or landing pages that spawn them.
  • Content that intends to, or does, induce user action through misleading appearance or behavior, including, but not limited to, creatives that mimic video players, functional buttons, errors or warnings about viruses, missing codecs, and corrupt disks.
  • Displaying fake errors to induce user action, or messaging that implies knowledge of a user’s computer or operating system.
  • Creatives must not rotate brands or advertisers.
  • The landing page must match brand of the advertisement.
  • The landing page must contain a privacy policy.

All creatives uploaded to the CTV platform, and advertiser landing pages when applicable, are subject to the Pontiac audit process. This process may take up to 1 business day and Pontiac reserves the right to deny any creative, even if they are compliant with listed standards and policies. Any ads deemed malicious or inappropriate at Pontiac’s discretion will result in your account being suspended.

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