Ad Fraud Archive

The Advertising Industry is Cleaning Up

The Advertising Industry is Cleaning Up Advertisers, consumers, and publishers are at a loss when it comes to advertising. Consumers are often exposed to ads that are irrelevant and they have to worry about data harvesters profiting off of their personal information, publishers use bot farms to boost their

How Click Fraud Is Costing The PPC Industry Billions

How Click Fraud Is Costing The PPC Industry Billions Ever since the introduction of pay per click ads back in the early 2000’s their popularity and use has taken off significantly. With the ability to allow any business to advertise their products and services online, it’s easy to see

What is ads.txt? History and Definition

So, what is Ads.txt? Ads.txt is a relatively new but successful initiative by the IAB Tech Lab to bring transparency and reduce fraudulent activities in the digital advertising ecosystem. Ads.txt is a simple solution to the rampant problem of ad fraud, confusion and reselling of inventory without a publishers

Why Understanding Click Fraud is Important

Why is Understanding Click Fraud Important? Digital advertising is not only a highly effective way of reaching your target audience, but it has also one of the billion dollar industries today. However, the real question remains whether all those clicks or views are actually being generated by your real

What is Domain Masking? This Infographic Explains it

Adtech analytics company Pixalate reported in the past that fraud ad networks are engaging in the practice of selling ad impressions from low quality domains making the buyer think they are buying one domain when they are really appearing on a completely different website. This practice is called domain

Preventing Fraud in Programmatic Advertising

Fraud in Programmatic Advertising Marco Muzzi from AcquityAds is one of the good guys in the digital advertising Industry. His educational video is spot on in educating the public about what digital advertising fraud is in Programmatic, also known as Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and the preventative measures used to combat fraud.

GeoEdge Ad Verification

What is GeoEdge? GeoEdge is a premium provider of ad verification and transparency solutions for ‎publishers and ad platforms. GeoEdge guards against non-compliance, malware, inappropriate content, data ‎leakage, ad operational, and performance issues. Ad ops teams use GeoEdge to ensure a clean, safe, and engaging user experience, by automating

Ad Impression Fraud Billboard in Midtown, New York

What is Impression Fraud? Ad Impression Fraud has been a sickness plaguing the Digital Advertising Industry since it’s inception. There is an ongoing battle between advertisers and robots who crawl through web pages and create false impressions. Overall this lowers the value proposition for ad agencies to dump digital