LegitScript, the leader in merchant and product certification and monitoring in the advertising, e-commerce, and payment sectors, today announced that more than 10,000 websites have achieved LegitScript Certification. For healthcare, addiction treatment, and other highly regulated industries, LegitScript Certification provides an independent standard for demonstrating compliance, building trust with consumers and industry partners, and meeting a common prerequisite that helps unlock advertising on major online platforms and streamlines payment processing.

Digital healthcare has grown into a broad ecosystem spanning providers, infrastructure platforms, and specialty care companies. New products and business models can reach consumers quickly, while regulatory requirements, advertising policies, and payment requirements continue to change. The result is a larger, faster-moving market where compliance risks can emerge across multiple channels and jurisdictions.

“Reaching 10,000 certified websites reflects both the growth of digital healthcare and the trust placed in LegitScript as the market expands,” said Scott Roth, CEO of LegitScript. “That trust depends on maintaining rigorous standards over time, not just at the point of certification. As the market grows and changes, our responsibility is to ensure our program evolves with it while continuing to uphold the standards businesses, partners, and consumers rely on.”

LegitScript Certification begins with a comprehensive review against LegitScript’s Certification Standards, which are based on applicable regulatory requirements and industry best practices. After certification, businesses remain subject to ongoing monitoring that combines proprietary technology, regulatory intelligence, and expert human review. That work evaluates areas including licensure and credentials, online presence, changes in business operations, and relevant regulatory and enforcement activity.

Beyond certification, LegitScript works with platforms, marketplaces, and payments companies to identify risk across the broader commercial internet. Throughout its merchant, platform, and risk intelligence solutions, LegitScript analyzes millions of websites and other forms of online commercial activity spanning high-risk categories and global jurisdictions, providing visibility into emerging products, business models, regulatory shifts, and seller tactics as they develop.

That same intelligence has enabled LegitScript to classify and report on over 140,000 internet pharmacy websites that are operating outside applicable global pharmacy regulations. This classification data feeds directly into the LegitScript monitoring processes. That breadth gives LegitScript an unparalleled view of how risk and compliance challenges are changing across the online ecosystem.

“Risk doesn’t develop in a single channel or on a single timetable,” said Andy Bayley, Director of Risk and Policy at LegitScript. “New products, business models, and tactics can gain traction quickly across the online ecosystem. Understanding those shifts at scale is critical to helping organizations make informed risk and compliance decisions.”

“The scale of our work has grown significantly, but the mission behind it has remained the same,” added Roth. “A safer, more transparent internet and payments ecosystem requires constant vigilance, continued investment, and collaboration across the industry. We will keep evolving our capabilities and working with businesses, platforms, and other stakeholders to stay ahead of emerging risks and help raise the standard for compliance.”

To learn more, visit www.legitscript.com/certification

About LegitScript

LegitScript, the global leader in Enterprise Risk Management Solutions, is trusted by the world’s largest search engines, e-commerce marketplaces, payment service providers, and social media platforms. By combining advanced, AI-driven technology with deep domain expertise and curated market intelligence, LegitScript empowers businesses to stay ahead of emerging threats and seize new growth opportunities with precision and speed. Our global team of regulatory experts and analysts is skilled at understanding global regulatory changes and assessing risk across products, websites, merchants, and platforms, providing clients with unmatched accuracy, actionable insights, and exceptional support.

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