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What is TargetVideo bot?

TargetVideo bot is TargetVideo's ads.txt crawler that checks if the correct ads.txt entries are present for websites in TargetVideo's premium demand program.

TargetVideo bot is the generic name for TargetVideo'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.

How TargetVideo bot accesses your ads.txt file

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

Verifying TargetVideo bot

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 target-video.com as the domain.

TargetVideobot technical specs

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-targetvideobot)

TargetVideobot Example in Robots.txt

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

User-agent: TargetVideobot

Disallow: /ads.txt