marketers assume their digital marketing is working as expected; but if they looked more closely at analytics, they may see that some of those assumptions are not valid -- i.e. they are not getting what they thought they paid for. Take a closer look yourself.
Ellen Pao was right. I have seen and documented the fake stuff since at least 2013. In digital, virtually unlimited fake accounts, fake traffic, fake users, fake ad impressions, etc. can be created. How many of the 50 slides in this deck were you familiar with?
why do hackers hack? of course, it's fun for them. But they hack to make tons of money with their unique skillset. How does hacking connect to ad fraud? Here are a few examples.
How many of these hidden costs were you aware of?
Without even talking about digital ad fraud, there are other costs in the digital ad supply path that eat up most of every dollar that advertisers spend in digital. There are known costs of 60 - 70% extracted by adtech middlemen.
In 2021 some marketers are still asking whether ad fraud is real and whether it is pervasive. This serves as a simple reminder of some of the evidence collected over the years.
marketers assume their digital marketing is working as expected; but if they looked more closely at analytics, they may see that some of those assumptions are not valid -- i.e. they are not getting what they thought they paid for. Take a closer look yourself.
Ellen Pao was right. I have seen and documented the fake stuff since at least 2013. In digital, virtually unlimited fake accounts, fake traffic, fake users, fake ad impressions, etc. can be created. How many of the 50 slides in this deck were you familiar with?
why do hackers hack? of course, it's fun for them. But they hack to make tons of money with their unique skillset. How does hacking connect to ad fraud? Here are a few examples.
How many of these hidden costs were you aware of?
Without even talking about digital ad fraud, there are other costs in the digital ad supply path that eat up most of every dollar that advertisers spend in digital. There are known costs of 60 - 70% extracted by adtech middlemen.
In 2021 some marketers are still asking whether ad fraud is real and whether it is pervasive. This serves as a simple reminder of some of the evidence collected over the years.
putting aside ad fraud for a moment, what's the elephant in the room? we're talking about your digital marketing. Do you think it is working? How do you know?
Everyone is paying for fraud detection, but without enough technical knowledge, they don't realize the fraud detection doesn't work or is easily tricked by the bad guys. So what's worse is that the people paying for fraud detection have a false sense of security and take their eyes off of the obvious fraud that is still getting through.
digital ad fraud is as rampant as ever; new ripples caused by privacy regulations are starting to affect the market. and more BS from trade associations pretending to be doing something
from the IAB FY 2019 advertising revenue report, we show that CPM and CPC ads represent 92% of all digital spend; these are the favorite targets of fraudters
There are 2 main forms of mobile fraud - display ad fraud and install fraud. This deck focuses on the far more lucrative and larger form - mobile display fraud.
Data from FouAnalytics, on-site measurement and in-ad measurement was compared to DBM exchange data for 26 exchanges, 7.5 trillion impressions (30 day period) to analyze browser market share -- specifically Safari/iOS.
Findings include: 1) bots pretending to be Safari/iOS outnumber real Safari users 5 to 1, and 2) there is a 1.5X average surplus of Safari impressions available on exchanges compared to unique cookies.
Many companies felt pressured to get TAG certification (certified against fraud). What does TAG certification mean and what does it not mean? Does TAG certification actually reduce fraud, or is it that companies that already filter for IVT have lower fraud than ones that do not filter for IVT? For folks thinking about getting TAG certification, here are some considerations to think through.
“In addition to the ad fraud itself, bad guys make money by selling the “picks and shovels” too – e.g. bots, traffic, clicks, malware, fake apps, etc. They have an entire ecosystem to extract value. What follows are just a few examples, scratching the surface.”
The original idea of the digital media trust collaborative is was sharing threat intelligence to more quickly remove fraudulent domains and apps from media buys.
putting aside ad fraud for a moment, what's the elephant in the room? we're talking about your digital marketing. Do you think it is working? How do you know?
Everyone is paying for fraud detection, but without enough technical knowledge, they don't realize the fraud detection doesn't work or is easily tricked by the bad guys. So what's worse is that the people paying for fraud detection have a false sense of security and take their eyes off of the obvious fraud that is still getting through.
digital ad fraud is as rampant as ever; new ripples caused by privacy regulations are starting to affect the market. and more BS from trade associations pretending to be doing something
from the IAB FY 2019 advertising revenue report, we show that CPM and CPC ads represent 92% of all digital spend; these are the favorite targets of fraudters
There are 2 main forms of mobile fraud - display ad fraud and install fraud. This deck focuses on the far more lucrative and larger form - mobile display fraud.
Data from FouAnalytics, on-site measurement and in-ad measurement was compared to DBM exchange data for 26 exchanges, 7.5 trillion impressions (30 day period) to analyze browser market share -- specifically Safari/iOS.
Findings include: 1) bots pretending to be Safari/iOS outnumber real Safari users 5 to 1, and 2) there is a 1.5X average surplus of Safari impressions available on exchanges compared to unique cookies.
Many companies felt pressured to get TAG certification (certified against fraud). What does TAG certification mean and what does it not mean? Does TAG certification actually reduce fraud, or is it that companies that already filter for IVT have lower fraud than ones that do not filter for IVT? For folks thinking about getting TAG certification, here are some considerations to think through.
“In addition to the ad fraud itself, bad guys make money by selling the “picks and shovels” too – e.g. bots, traffic, clicks, malware, fake apps, etc. They have an entire ecosystem to extract value. What follows are just a few examples, scratching the surface.”
The original idea of the digital media trust collaborative is was sharing threat intelligence to more quickly remove fraudulent domains and apps from media buys.
how the money flows from the advertisers through the ad tech intermediaries to longtail, fraud, and fake sites, with the help of botnets and traffic sellers
bad guys started with fake websites, then moved to loading ads only to save time and bandwidth; now they are simply faking bid requests and flooding exchanges
Previous studies that addressed the impact of losing third party (“3P”) cookies on ad revenue did not clearly differentiate between the impact on ad tech intermediaries versus on publishers. Instead of “advertiser CPMs” (what advertisers pay) this study uses “media CPMs” (what the publishers get) to better isolate the impact of tracking vs no tracking on publishers.
most buyers who buy in programmatic channels think they are getting enormous "reach" -- i.e. their ads are shown on many sites; but this data shows the exact opposite is true. Their ads are being shown on a small number of sites (less than 1,000); the buyers might as well have bought more direct from good publishers.
Using Google Analytics to find abnormal traffic and fraud; this is a how-to, to get hourly charts instead of daily rolled-up or averaged data, which hides the fraud.
FouAnalytics is an alternative to Google Analytics, but with fraud and bot detection baked in. Marketers can use FouAnalytics to look at their own campaigns, find the domains and apps that are eating up their budgets fraudulently, and turn them off, while the campaign is still running. How does that compare to your blackbox fraud detection that just gives you a percent IVT number?
FouAnalytics - site analytics and media analytics for practitioners to detect fraud and take action themselves - on-site tags and in-ad tags measure sites and ad impressions, respectively
When marketers buy from good publishers and pay HIGHER CPMs, they get better outcomes and marketing efficiency, despite the higher CPM. This is because there are human audiences that visit those good publishers' sites.
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App Install vs In-App FraudSource: AppsFlyer https://www.appsflyer.com/blog/top-5-trends-app-marketing/
App Install Fraud In-App Fraud
Observation: The nature of fraud is different depending on the
category; note app install fraud is mirror image to in-app fraud