No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is chartboost.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate advertising-tech platform (founded 2011, acquired by LoopMe 2024) with 15-year-old domain, clean security profile, and active business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
Chartboost operates as an established B2B SaaS platform for in-app monetization and programmatic advertising. The domain is 5,584 days old (~15 years), registered with a legitimate Delaware entity (Chartboost LLC, no. 4959044) now owned by UK-registered LoopMe Ltd. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections across 92 engines, SSL is valid, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. The page displays professional B2B design with no phishing, malware, or scam-pattern indicators. Older Reddit and Unity forum complaints from 2016–2019 describe account suspensions and alleged ad-related pop-ups, but these reflect business-policy disputes rather than fraud — the company has maintained active SDKs, documentation, and fraud-prevention measures. Independent trust aggregators show mixed ratings (around 2.5/5 on some platforms) driven by strict terms of service and account-management friction, not evidence of criminal operation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page presents as the homepage of LoopMe, a legitimate advertising technology company, with professional design, coherent branding, and no detectable scam-pattern visual elements.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional navigation bar with clearly labeled dropdown menus (Solutions, Technology, About, Resources, Contact) and a prominent 'Login to Products' CTA button consistent with a legitimate B2B SaaS
Hero section features high-quality photography, bold on-brand typography, and a coherent blue color scheme with no signs of layout breakage or placeholder text.
No urgency tactics, countdown timers, or artificial scarcity messaging visible.
No fake trust badges, invented security seals, or suspicious social-proof elements detected.
No pop-up overlays, push-notification prompts, or intrusive modals present in the capture.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for chartboost.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain chartboost.com is 5584 days old (~15 years); official site for in-app programmatic advertising and monetization platform now operated by LoopMe.
- Founded 2011 by Maria Alegre and Sean Fannan; acquired by Zynga in 2021 for $250M, then sold to LoopMe in December 2024.
- Chartboost LLC is a registered Delaware entity (no. 4959044); parent LoopMe Ltd is UK-registered (no. 07979184) with ePrivacy seal and industry memberships (EDAA, NAI).
- Older Reddit/Unity complaints (2016–2019 era) about sudden account suspensions without payout and alleged ad-related malware/pop-ups on user devices.
- Trustpilot shows low score (~2.5–2.6/5 from very few reviews); G2 reviews mention slow dashboard and strict ToS leading to bans.
- Actively maintained with current SDKs (v9.12.0 for Android/iOS), documentation, and emphasis on fraud prevention via app-ads.txt.
- Scamadviser marks subdomains and redirect as legitimate/safe; no major recent scam reports or regulatory actions found.
- Unity Discussionsopen
"Chartboost is suspending game developer accounts without pay. It happened to me after 5 years using Chartboost in all of my games."
- Reddit r/gamedevopen
"Chartboost is on a rampage suspending developer's accounts. With no warning and no reason CB sends ..."
- Reddit r/techsupportopen
"Chartboost Malware? I had Pop up ads on my phone and porn pop ups on chrome for like a week"
Chartboost LLC registered in Delaware (registration number 4959044); acquired by LoopMe Ltd (UK company 07979184) in Dec 2024 after prior Zynga ownership
Web research found 3 complaints and 2 positive reviews. Older complaints (2016–2019) on Reddit and Unity forums describe sudden account suspensions without warning or payout, and alleged ad-related pop-ups on user devices — these reflect business-policy disputes rather than fraud. Positive reviews highlight strong revenue performance (e.g., 71% revenue improvement in first week). Business registration confirmed: Chartboost LLC is a Delaware entity (no. 4959044) now owned by LoopMe Ltd (UK-registered, no. 07979184), acquired in December 2024. No recent scam reports, regulatory actions, or credential-harvesting indicators detected.
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 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://chartboost.com/
- 2301https://chartboost.com/
- 3301https://loopme.com/chartboost/cross-domain
- 4200https://loopme.ai/chartboost/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 chartboost.com and not a lookalike like c-hartboost.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on chartboost.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- chartboost.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. chartboost.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 138 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- chartboost.com is 15.3 years old, registered on 2/23/2011 through DomainSite, 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 chartboost.com as clean.
- No. chartboost.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- chartboost.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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.
- Yes. chartboost.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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