- Acquiring Customers: The Financial Impact Of Bots, Invalid Clicks
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, September 20, 2021
CHEQ's report, The Cost of Lost Revenue Opportunities, reveals how much reven ...
- Advertisers Beef Up Claims Against LinkedIn Over Inflated Metrics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
"Rampant bot and other fraudulent activity on LinkedIn's platform mean that advertise ...
- Mobile App Video Fraud Rises 50%, CTV Notches To Top, DoubleVerify Finds
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 8, 2021
Video ads on mobile apps have the highest viewable rates at 77 ...
- Judge Denies Class-Action Status To Advertiser Battling Facebook Over Fake Clicks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 23, 2021
dotStrategy, which operates the ".buzz" domain registry, isn't entitled to class-action stat ...
- How HUMAN, Google, Facebook Make It More Expensive To Commit Cybercrime
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 21, 2021
"We had to disrupt the economics of cybercrime," said HUMAN CEO Tam ...
- Imported Can-Spam: How GDPR Affects Email Marketing From The U.S.
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 14, 2021
There are some differences that brands should be aware of before th ...
- HUMAN, Google, Roku Squash CTV Botnet After It Impersonates Billions Of Ad Requests
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 22, 2021
Chief scientist at cybersecurity firm HUMAN Michael McNally publicly called on t ...
- White Ops Takes On Human Rebrand
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The company, now owned by Goldman Sachs in partnership with ClearSky Securi ...
- Marketing Fraud A Much Bigger Problem Than Marketers Realize, Study Shows
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 1, 2021
Two-thirds of marketers in a White Ops survey experienced fraud in t ...
- Mobile Fraud And Bots Peak During Economic Slowdown: Study
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 5, 2021
Fraud artists also have greater access to consumer data, LexisNexis Risk Solutio ...
- BOTS Catches Bots: FTC Uses Law To Nab Concert Cyber Scalpers
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, January 22, 2021
FTC settled 3 cases against ticket brokers using sophisticated technology to bypa ...
- Asian Firm Offers Email Phishing Detection Tool
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 15, 2021
Even people without specialized IT training can use the AI-driven service, t ...
- White Ops Finds App Scam Serving Multiple Unexpected Ads
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Ad verification/cybersecurity firm White Ops has identified many apps that mimic popul ...
- MRC Accredits MMI For Display Measurement And Bot Fraud
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, January 11, 2021
Digital ad quality and fraud detection firm Method Media Intelligence (MMI) h ...
- CHEQ Warns Of Bots Skewing Ecommerce Metrics As Ad Fraud Increases
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 28, 2020
CHEQ analyzed the pay-per-click ad-fraud effects of 30 ecommerce companies spending $500,0 ...
- The Grinch Bots That Stole Christmas, Walmart Accused Of Allowing Them
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, November 29, 2020
Walmart is allowing auto-generated bots to dominate purchases for the difficult-to-find So ...
- Facebook Sues Fake Engagement Purveyors
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Facebook this week sued the companies Boostgram and Instant-Fans for allegedly selli ...
- New Botnet Hits Premium Connected TV Platforms
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
DoubleVerify says the "MultiTerra" botnet, designed to create fake ad inventory acro ...
- Fraud Follows Connected TV Boom
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 20, 2020
The benchmark report on the state of media quality for advertisers address ...
- Twitter Can't Shake Advertiser's Suit Over 'Bot' Accounts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Twitter must face claims it wrongly charged an advertiser for interactions wi ...
- MRC 'Modernizes' 5-Year-Old Invalid Traffic Standards To Account For New Forms Of Ad Fraud
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, June 25, 2020
The Media Rating Council (MRC) this morning released new standards intended ...
- Bing Adds COVID-19 Self-Checker To Search
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Search on the term "COVID-19" and in the return query searchers wi ...
- Bots Take On Human Behavior, As Google, Facebook Work To Stop Misinformation
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 3, 2020
Advanced bots make it easy to exploit platforms and spread disinformation abo ...
- Ads.txt Means Ad Fraudsters Are Upping Their Game
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The latest bot to be discovered has already earned $15m from sophisticat ...
- Google AdSense Publishers Hit With Ad Extortion Email
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 17, 2020
A scheme targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through AdSense ...
- Vivendi-Owned Dailymotion Extends Partnership With White Ops To Reduce Ad Fraud
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 30, 2020
Sophisticated malware that lives on a person's device can now learn a ...
- TBS Gets Heavenly Results With Social Campaigns
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Friday, January 17, 2020
When some of the main cast was a little less socially activ ...
- What Would Ad Industry Do If It Heard 22% Of Nielsen's TV Panel Were Bots?
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, December 26, 2019
Folks would be up in arms. Yet how come most yawn wh ...
- SendGrid Reputation Abused By Phishing Artists, Report Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Victims who click on a SendGrid link are taken to Google Do ...
- What Would Ad Industry Do If It Heard 22% Of Nielsen's TV Panel Were Bots?
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, October 17, 2019
Folks would be up in arms. Yet how come most yawn wh ...