What is TargetVideo bot?

TargetVideo bot is the generic name for Brid's ads.txt crawler. If your website is included in TargetVideo's premium demand  program, your ads.txt file may get crawled by TargetVideo bot. Its sole purpose is to check whether the appropriate ads.txt entries are input into your ads.txt file and nothing else.

In most cases, you won't see more than 1 access per day.

The best way to verify that a request actually comes from Googlebot is to use a reverse DNS lookup on the source IP of the request and make sure that it returns brid.tv as the domain.

User Agent

User-agent: TargetVideobot

Full User-Agent String

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TargetVideobot/1.0; +https://helpdesk.target-video.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010743959-what-is-bridbot)

Bridbot Example in Robots.txt

This specific example will disallow crawling of your ads.txt file with Bridbot.

User-agent: TargetVideobot

Disallow: /ads.txt