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Thousands of apps are masquerading as premium publishers in order to bypass new industry-wide protections against ad fraud, according to new data. Researchers at fraud detection firm Forensiq recently uncovered a scam in which apps sell ad inventory under the...
I’ve always had a hunch about online advertising, particularly substantiated by Facebook, that most of the “clicks” — what you are directly charged for — are largely made up of fake people, bots or otherwise irrelevant profiles. Why have I...
If you ask any marketer the big advantages that digital advertising has over traditional, analog channels, “more measurable” has been toward the top of the list for years. Even now, digital earns nicknames like “the nirvana of quantifiable marketing” from...
When it comes to conversions, there is a lot going on below the fold. New data from Nativo underscores the importance of the viewable CPM Now that viewability measurement has become ubiquitous across the digital space, advertisers are looking deeper...
Much as contextual targeting is experiencing a rebirth due to the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation, ad-buyer demand for programmatic guaranteed deals is also increasing for some publishers. This method of ad buying, in which an advertiser can...
4G brought about video streaming, app stores, programmatic auctions and an entry point into the world of virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. With 5G, experts say advertisers and publishers should expect much more. Imagine hopping in an autonomous...
Ad fraud technology is helpful until it isn’t. Many publishers, brands, and agencies work with multiple solution-providers, which gets pricy, frustrating and even confusing. Their laundry list of grievances includes sizable data discrepancies between solution-providers, outlandish pricing, and network infrastructure...
Google has undergone a wholesale rebrand of its adtech wares by unifying its DoubleClick products and Google Analytics 360 Suite under the Google Marketing Platform, along with the debut of a new Google Ads offering in a bid to simplify...
Few would argue that the digital ads industry isn’t broken. We’ve come to accept ads as a punishment for using free services, but they’re invasive, annoying, and creepy; they collect too much information, and they can contain malware . Even...
Ad fraud is a major concern in the media industry, being rated as anything between a mild annoyance to the very death knell of programmatic advertising, depending where one sits on the issue. And if you thought this was a...
