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Websites using Amazon Publisher Services (apstag)

Amazon Publisher Services offers Transparent Ad Marketplace header bidding for publishers. About 2,521 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 50 highest-ranked are listed below.

How is Amazon Publisher Services (apstag) detected?

The apstag library is loaded from c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js. The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:

c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js Search the index for it

A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About Amazon Publisher Services (apstag)

Top 50 websites using Amazon Publisher Services (apstag)

Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-09-30 16:03:25 UTC.

#WebsiteRankFound in
1 theverge.com 121 html https://www.theverge.com/ view source profile
2 vox.com 212 html https://www.vox.com/ view source profile
3 huffpost.com 237 js https://modulous.huffpost.com/2021/0…/1620175303-amazon.js view source profile
4 hindustantimes.com 260 html https://www.hindustantimes.com/ view source profile
5 foxnews.com 355 html https://www.foxnews.com/ view source profile
6 dictionary.com 373 html https://www.dictionary.com/ view source profile
7 time.com 412 js https://time.com/replatform/_next/st…/2708uam4hgtea.js view source profile
8 indianexpress.com 556 html https://indianexpress.com/ view source profile
9 goodreads.com 558 html https://www.goodreads.com/ view source profile
10 caranddriver.com 674 js https://www.caranddriver.com/_assets…/moapt-bundle-autos.js view source profile
11 slate.com 740 html https://slate.com/ view source profile
12 zerohedge.com 767 html https://www.zerohedge.com/ view source profile
13 dailycaller.com 866 html https://dailycaller.com/ view source profile
14 metacritic.com 867 html https://www.metacritic.com/ view source profile
15 theglobeandmail.com 902 html https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ view source profile
16 kbb.com 1,023 js https://static.kbb.com/homepage/mast…/1hdam_-e6h_ya.js view source profile
17 maxpreps.com 1,299 html https://www.maxpreps.com/news/1kaTlg…ootball-record-book.htm view source profile
18 ameblo.jp 1,322 html https://ameblo.jp/borderfreecosmetics/ view source profile
19 livemint.com 1,460 js https://www.livemint.com/_next/stati…app-05acd49ef231df77.js view source profile
20 history.com 1,562 js https://www.history.com/build/deskto…34e5207eb364acba07c9.js view source profile
21 globalnews.ca 1,971 html https://globalnews.ca/ view source profile
22 ctvnews.ca 1,982 html https://www.ctvnews.ca/ view source profile
23 aarp.org 1,998 html https://www.aarp.org/ view source profile
24 financialpost.com 2,207 html https://financialpost.com/ view source profile
25 biography.com 2,329 js https://www.biography.com/_assets/mo…/moapt-bundle-hdm.js view source profile
26 genius.com 2,423 html https://genius.com/ view source profile
27 lavanguardia.com 2,640 js https://rsc.lavanguardia.com/js/godo…8d8fb5bc8421c1a7b1142c0 view source profile
28 financialexpress.com 2,767 html https://www.financialexpress.com/ view source profile
29 nationalpost.com 2,786 html https://nationalpost.com/ view source profile
30 complex.com 2,863 js https://media.complex.com/common/catalyst.js view source profile
31 debugbear.com 2,992 js https://www.debugbear.com/cdn/chunk-…901985361da95a2c5a45.js view source profile
32 esquire.com 3,003 js https://www.esquire.com/_assets/moap…/moapt-bundle-hdm.js view source profile
33 tunein.com 3,027 js https://cdn-web.tunein.com/assets/js…486.1eb1f9716675c436.js view source profile
34 elconfidencial.com 3,169 html https://www.elconfidencial.com/tags/…apps-aplicaciones-9337/ view source profile
35 popsugar.com 3,271 html https://www.popsugar.com/ view source profile
36 thesaurus.com 3,278 html https://www.thesaurus.com/ view source profile
37 elle.com 3,334 js https://www.elle.com/_assets/moapt/2…/moapt-bundle-hdm.js view source profile
38 eater.com 3,407 html https://www.eater.com/ view source profile
39 popularmechanics.com 3,469 js https://www.popularmechanics.com/_as…/moapt-bundle-hdm.js view source profile
40 bnnbloomberg.ca 3,583 html https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ view source profile
41 electrek.co 3,599 html https://electrek.co/ view source profile
42 india.com 3,978 html https://www.india.com/ view source profile
43 thrillist.com 3,984 html https://www.thrillist.com/ view source profile
44 curbed.com 4,102 html https://www.curbed.com/ view source profile
45 housebeautiful.com 4,106 js https://www.housebeautiful.com/_asse…/moapt-bundle-hdm.js view source profile
46 nifty.com 4,181 js https://www.nifty.com/js/ad/aps.js view source profile
47 vulture.com 4,292 html https://www.vulture.com/ view source profile
48 thecut.com 4,364 html https://www.thecut.com/ view source profile
49 eluniversal.com.mx 4,588 html https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/ view source profile
50 9to5google.com 4,641 html https://9to5google.com/ view source profile

How it appears in the source

From theverge.com (html):

<script src="https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js" async="" defer="" data-nscript="beforeInteractive"></script>

See every site: search for c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js

Questions about finding Amazon Publisher Services (apstag)

How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses Amazon Publisher Services (apstag)?
By the source itself: The apstag library is loaded from c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js. PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
Is this a complete list of websites using Amazon Publisher Services (apstag)?
No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 2,521 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
How do I find websites that use Amazon Publisher Services (apstag) together with another technology?
Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use Amazon Publisher Services (apstag).