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ADWEEK: Suspicious Web Domains Cost the Online Ad Business $400M Per Year
ADOTAS (via ADWEEK) – According to an analysis by RadiumOne, there are 1,724 Web domains that share at least 10 percent of their audience with a group of worst-offender sites uncovered by Adweek, and 254 domains have an overlap of greater than 50 percent. Among the companies showing up include [...] more...
Programmatic Advertising’s Dirty Little Secret Gets Bigger: Fraud is on the Rise
ADOTAS – Programmatic buying should be a boon for advertisers. It should be a powerful tool for them to reach relevant audiences at scale in an increasingly fragmented media environment. In theory, it increases the accuracy of their targeted advertising efforts while eliminating wasted spend. There is a plethora of [...] more...
Today’s Burning Question: Is the Industry Overrun with Botnets?
ADOTAS – Inspired by recent coverage of the issue by both AdWeek and AdExchanger, we asked our panel of industry leaders: “Has botnet traffic increased exponentially in the age of programmatic buying and RTB, and if so, what can be done to combat it?” Here are their responses: “I don’t think this is a new [...] more...
Blogshare: ‘Learning From Pinterest: How the Ad Tech Industry Can Help Fight Fraud’
The latest blog post on The MakeGood from Andrew Casale, VP Strategy for Casale Media, is titled “Learning From Pinterest: How the AdTech Industry Can Help Fight Ad Fraud.” The crux of the article is about using the domain name registration date to verify whether a site is suspicious or [...] more...
Study: 40 Percent of Mobile Ad Clicks Are Useless
Mobile app marketing platform Trademob conducted a study in June that examined 6 million ad clicks from mobile devices. Among its findings: 4 of every 10 ad clicks are useless and generate a conversion rate of less than 0.1 percent. 18 percent of all ad clicks are fraudulent, often the result of bots. 22 [...] more...
Lead Gen: The Fraud Paradox
DM CONFIDENTIAL – If I told you that a company was running a business doing 90% fraud and billing more than $10,000 a month, what would you think? In many ways, it’s unintentionally a trick question. Those in the performance marketing space would answer, yes, they could believe it. Not [...] more...
Risks and Rewards of Lead Generation
ADOTAS – If you’re taking your marketing dollars and betting them all on acquisition this year, you may need a crash course in acquisition’s risks and rewards! Both can be plentiful, but without a solid understanding of the space’s intricacies, your brand and budget could be on their own collision [...] more...
Adometry Discovers Massive Cross-Channel Ad Hijacking Scam
ADOTAS – Just when you thought your ads were safe, Adometry (formerly traffic monitor Click Forensics before a merger with ad verifier Adometry) has discovered a sophisticated new kind of click fraud that effects video, display and search ads — in fact, it’s the first attack the company has seen that co-ordinates [...] more...
Click Forensics Takes Adometry’s Name With Its Tech
ADOTAS – Traffic monitor Click Forensics and ad verifier Adometry are looking to be the talk of the online advertising space with their nontraditional integration — can you believe the acquirer is taking the acquiree’s name? Heavens to Betsy! Click Forensics has bought Adometry and the conjoined company will go by Adometry. Originally focused [...] more...
Fingerprinting Devices With BlueCava
ADOTAS – Think about it like this, BlueCava CEO Dave Norris says: you bring your car to the parking lot of a local store. The guy at the register sees it and remembers you — he greets you as you walk in, maybe asks if you need more of this [...] more...
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Take the Display Advertising Survey for the Chance to Win a Jawbone Jambox!ADOTAS – Industry discussions about cookies, privacy and the impact on display advertising have been frequent — and, in some [...] more...
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