Our automated security review found no threat indicators on samba.tv. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is samba.tv safe to use?

samba.tv passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does samba.tv have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. samba.tv presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has samba.tv been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report samba.tv as clean.

Is samba.tv on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. samba.tv is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is samba.tv hosted?

samba.tv resolves to an IP operated by Webflow, 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.

Is samba.tv a well-known website?

Yes. samba.tv 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.

How often is the samba.tv report updated?

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.

SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is samba.tv legit or a scam?

Name: Is samba.tv legit or a scam?
Item: samba.tv
Rating: 5
Author: MalwareTips

Our verdict:Safe· 80/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Samba TV is a legitimate TV analytics company founded in 2008, with no malware or scam signals detected.

Why we trust it

Founded in 2008 with 17+ years of continuous operation and established market presence.Incorporated in Delaware with active business registration and SEC filings; raised significant funding from major investors (Disney, Mark Cuban).Integrated into Smart TVs from multiple manufacturers (Sony, etc.) and partnerships with industry leaders (LiveRamp, The Trade Desk).

samba.tvScanned 1h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 76·MT 82

Category tags

business & analyticstechnology92% MT confidence

Warning signals (3)

Some abuse reports (44%)Redirects to another domain Scam-network signals (15/100)

Positive signals (3)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 92% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

Samba TV operates as a real television technology company specializing in audience measurement and automatic content recognition (ACR) built into Smart TVs. The domain is clean across our antivirus network, browser blocklists, and sandbox analysis. Business registration records confirm incorporation in California in 2008 (as Free Stream Media Corp., later rebranded), reincorporation in Delaware in 2011, and active status with SEC filings. The company has raised substantial funding from major investors including Disney and Mark Cuban, operates partnerships with Sony, LiveRamp, and The Trade Desk, and claims 48 million addressable TV devices globally. No scam reports, fraud complaints, or phishing associations appear in independent sources or consumer-review databases. The site's contact limitations (no email, phone, or address on the homepage) are typical for B2B SaaS platforms that direct inquiries through sales forms rather than public contact details.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The homepage presents Samba TV as a data and analytics platform for television innovation. It includes calls-to-action for sales inquiries and business solutions, describes the company's technology stack and opt-in data practices, and references privacy compliance (CCPA, opt-out tools, confidentiality). The page loads external resources from legitimate CDNs (Google Fonts, Google Analytics, Cloudflare, jsDelivr) and cookie-consent services, consistent with a modern B2B website.

Infrastructure

The domain uses valid SSL encryption (Google Trust Services issuer, 67 days to expiry) and resolves to IP 198.202.211.1. The hosting IP carries a moderate abuse score (44/100) with 29 historical abuse reports, likely reflecting shared hosting infrastructure rather than malicious activity by this specific tenant. No malware, phishing, or suspicious content detected by our antivirus network or sandbox.

Domain History

WHOIS data is unavailable, but business registration records confirm Samba TV, Inc. as an active Delaware corporation founded in 2008. The company has maintained continuous operations, raised multiple funding rounds, and filed SEC disclosures. The domain itself ranks in the global top-100k by traffic, indicating established web presence and user engagement.

Web Reputation

Independent sources including Wikipedia, Gridinsoft security analysis, and business databases confirm Samba TV as a legitimate, well-funded technology company. No scam reports, consumer complaints, or fraud alerts appear across search results. The company does face privacy-related litigation (a 2025 class-action lawsuit alleging data-collection practices on Sony TVs), which is a business and legal matter, not a scam indicator.

Risk Factors

Hosting IP carries 29 historical abuse reports, though this reflects shared infrastructure rather than malicious activity by Samba TV itself.
No direct contact information (email, phone, address) on the homepage; inquiries routed through sales forms, which is standard for B2B platforms but limits transparency.
Privacy litigation pending (2025 class-action lawsuit) alleges data-collection practices may not align with stated opt-in claims, though this is a regulatory/legal matter, not fraud.

Positive Signals

Founded in 2008 with 17+ years of continuous operation and established market presence.
Incorporated in Delaware with active business registration and SEC filings; raised significant funding from major investors (Disney, Mark Cuban).
Integrated into Smart TVs from multiple manufacturers (Sony, etc.) and partnerships with industry leaders (LiveRamp, The Trade Desk).
Clean across all antivirus engines, browser blocklists, and sandbox analysis; no malware or phishing associations.
Wikipedia entry and multiple independent sources confirm legitimacy; no scam reports or fraud complaints found.

AI Recommendation

Samba TV is a legitimate business website. It is safe to visit and explore. If you have privacy concerns about data collection on Smart TVs, review the company's privacy policy and opt-out tools on the site.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

samba.tv

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for samba.tv, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · United States

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

3 positive

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

Samba TV (samba.tv) is the official website of Samba TV, Inc., a legitimate TV audience measurement and analytics company founded in 2008, specializing in ACR (automatic content recognition) technology built into many Smart TVs (Sony Bravia
Company claims 48 million addressable TV devices globally, 100% opt-in data collection, easy opt-out, no sharing of PII, and full privacy law compliance.
Integrated into Smart TVs from multiple brands; provides real-time viewership insights used by advertisers and media companies; partners include LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, and others.
Has faced privacy-related criticism and at least one 2025 class-action lawsuit alleging unlawful interception of viewing data on Sony TVs before opt-in and misrepresentation of practices.
No scam reports, fraud alerts, malware associations, or phishing complaints found for samba.tv or ads.samba.tv across searches including Reddit, news, and security sites.
Employee reviews mixed (Glassdoor ~3.9/5); company has raised significant funding, reported $100M+ revenue in 2019, and secured growth capital in 2025.
BBB profile exists but not accredited; no consumer complaints detailed in available records.

Positive reviews (3)

Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.

Wikipediaopen
"Samba TV is a television technology company that offers real-time insights and audience analytics. It was founded in 2008 by early employees of BitTorrent."
Samba TV official siteopen
"We provide the leading omniscreen advertising and measurement solution in the market today, making Samba TV the industry’s trusted source of truth."
Gridinsoftopen
"We scanned ads.samba.tv and found it to be legitimate. Our analysis shows a high trust score of 100/100, indicating this website appears to be very safe to use."

Business registration

Status: active · United States

Incorporated in California in 2008 as Free Stream Media Corp. (later Samba TV), reincorporated in Delaware in 2011. HQ in San Francisco, CA. Filed S-1 with SEC in 2021. Raised funding from investors including Disney, Mark Cuban.

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news sources, and security aggregators for samba.tv and found no scam reports, fraud complaints, or phishing alerts. Independent sources including Wikipedia, business registries, and security analysts confirm Samba TV as a legitimate, well-funded television analytics company founded in 2008. The company operates partnerships with major brands (Sony, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk) and has raised substantial funding from investors including Disney and Mark Cuban. A 2025 class-action lawsuit alleges data-collection practices may not align with stated opt-in claims — a regulatory and legal matter, not a scam indicator.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Low correlation

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score

0/100

ClearLowModerateHighCritical

Evidence (1)

IP 198.202.211.1 has 29 abuse reports — likely part of a network.

Linked signals (2)

cdnjs.cloudflare.comcdn.jsdelivr.net

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified

Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious61Harmless92Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

Emsisoft

Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Sandbox Render

Sandbox capture incomplete — no traffic recorded

Requests made0

Unique IPs0

Countries0

Detected brandsNone

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.

What We Found

No clear contact details on the page

Emails on site's domainNone

Phone numbersNone

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles4

Signal Summary

Several contact red flags

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

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1

ExpiresAug 15, 2026 (67d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingWebflow, Inc

Server locationUS

Web servercloudflare

PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Yes

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://samba.tv/
2301https://samba.tv/
3200https://www.samba.tv/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Hosting

CountryUnknown

NetworkUnknown

IP addressUnknown

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score44%

Reports on file29

ISPWebflow, Inc

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 samba.tv and not a lookalike like s-amba.tv.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.
Discuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

ListedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

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 samba.tv. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
samba.tv passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
Yes. samba.tv presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report samba.tv as clean.
No. samba.tv is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
samba.tv resolves to an IP operated by Webflow, 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. samba.tv 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.
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.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·samba.tv

SAFE

Samba TV is the official website of a legitimate television analytics and audience measurement company founded in 2008. The site shows no malware, phishing, or scam indicators, and independent sources confirm it as an established business with significant funding and corporate partnerships.

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MT passes

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