No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is adthrive.com legit or a scam?
Official Raptive site (rebranded from AdThrive) offering ad monetization tools to creators, backed by a 14-year-old domain and active US registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents a professional corporate site for Raptive, the company formerly known as AdThrive and CafeMedia. Domain age exceeds 14 years with valid SSL and clean antivirus results across 92 engines. Business registration confirms AdThrive LLC as an active US entity since 2016. Positive reviews from publisher sites highlight high RPM performance while the two scam mentions consist of one negative freelancer review and the company's own warning about impersonators. No clone indicators or malicious redirects appear in the scan.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a clean, professional corporate site for Raptive with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for adthrive.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- adthrive.com is the official domain for AdThrive, now operating as Raptive (rebranded April 2023 from CafeMedia/AdThrive merger).
- AdThrive LLC is a registered active US company (New York HQ, incorporated 2016) offering ad monetization for publishers.
- Positive reviews from publishers highlight high RPMs and clean ads (e.g., FatStacksBlog, ThisWeekInBlogging).
- Reddit threads in r/adops discuss AdThrive experiences with traffic thresholds like 300k+ visits/month.
- Company publishes warnings about employment/freelance scams impersonating AdThrive/Raptive using fake emails.
- Over 7000 websites listed as using Raptive/AdThrive; claims #1 ad management platform in niches like food/lifestyle.
- Domain age exceeds 14 years (5226 days); no detected typosquats or clone indicators of major brands.
- Glassdooropen
"SCAM - Freelancer AdThrive Employee Review ... when you talking with them about the Project and payment they don't mention anything about a payment for $300 USD to open an ID premium"
- Raptive Help Centeropen
"Anyone claiming to work for Raptive, CafeMedia or AdThrive on these apps is not associated with our business. ... Scammers will often use real employee names with fake email accounts."
- FatStacksBlogopen
"AdThrive is an amazing ad network for publishers. They do one thing but do it exceptionally well and that is to make publishers (ie content creators) reams of money from ads."
- This Week in Bloggingopen
"Overall, Raptive is a stellar premium ad network, and I'm really excited to see high RPMs, clean ads, and an impressive dashboard."
- G2open
"AdThrive has been rated 4.8 stars by 4 verified reviews on G2."
AdThrive LLC, New York NY headquarters, incorporated 2016 (Florida filing L16000085344); provides ad optimization services
Our research found two scam-related mentions: one Glassdoor freelancer review complaining about payments and the company's own help center article warning users about employment scams impersonating Raptive or AdThrive. Three positive reviews from FatStacksBlog, This Week in Blogging, and G2 praise the ad network's performance. Business registration confirms an active US company operating since 2016.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://adthrive.com/
- 2200https://raptive.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on adthrive.com and not a lookalike like a-dthrive.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on adthrive.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- adthrive.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. adthrive.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 53 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- adthrive.com is 14.3 years old, registered on 2/14/2012 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report adthrive.com as clean.
- No. adthrive.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- adthrive.com resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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