- $142.8 Billion In Revenue Lost To Fake Traffic In 2022
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 17, 2023
CHEQ research shows that more than 40% of all traffic online ...
- Why It's Time To Listen To Mobile's First Anti-Fraud Evangelist
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, March 16, 2023
Mobile marketing platform AppsFlyer this week named Andreas Naumann its -- a ...
- Google Ads Served Malware, Draining An NFT Influencer's Crypto Wallet
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 16, 2023
Malware delivered in Google Ads is said to have drained an influencer ...
- Higher-Education Marketers Lose $94.6M In Annual Ad Spend To Invalid Paid Clicks
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 10, 2023
CHEQ examined the prevalence of fraud in higher-education marketing and found o ...
- Twitter Bots, Fake Traffic Rise During Political Events, CHEQ Data Shows
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Political events could be driving up the number of fake bots a ...
- Sellers.guide Releases Publisher Site Ranking For Fraud, Malware, Unsafe Online Traffic
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 20, 2022
Food, Home & Garden, and Travel are the categories less likely ...
- Lunio Raises $15 Million, Senior Leaders At Google Invest In Round
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 29, 2022
Lunio, a company focused on click-fraud prevention, announced closing $15 million ...
- Search, Affiliate Marketing Fraud To Cost Industry Billions
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 2, 2022
Fraudulent search -- direct and organic -- non-paid traffic contributes about 2 ...
- Edgemesh Uses Technology, Ad Retargeting To Weed Out Fraudulent Activity
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 2, 2022
Jake Loveless, CEO at Edgemesh, created a feature for his new compa ...
- Click Arbitrage Is Alive And Well, Thanks To Automation
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Janel Laravie - Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Affiliates and click arbitrage can cause trouble. While some problematic behaviors d ...
- 83.4 Million U.S. Smartphone Users Will Scan QR Codes This Year
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 15, 2022
QR codes made news after a viewing surge to Coinbase's QR co ...
- Judge Denies Class-Action Status To Advertiser Battling Google Over 'Invalid' Clicks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 12, 2022
In a victory for Google, a judge denied class-action status to ...
- Google Acquires Security Firm Siemplify, Plans To Roll It Into Cloud Services
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Google has acquired Israel-based cybersecurity firm Siemplify, and plans to roll t ...
- Google Project Zero Security Analysts Warn Against NSO Zero-Click Surveillance Of Smartphones
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 15, 2021
The zero-click attack is the biggest challenge to marketers and businesses. N ...
- Neutronian Certifies DoubleVerify, Launches NQI Transparency Ratings Report
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 8, 2021
DoubleVerify has received Cookieless Certification, an independent verification that data sellers ...
- Facebook Prevails In Battle With Advertiser Over Phony Accounts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 23, 2021
There is "absolutely nothing in the record suggesting that Facebook charged plainti ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- White Ops Takes On Human Rebrand
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The company, now owned by Goldman Sachs in partnership with ClearSky Securi ...
- Media-Bias Chart Provides In-Depth View, Greater Control For Media Buys Based On Brand Values
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 19, 2021
Ad Fontes Media is releasing a premium version of its media-bias cha ...
- Consumers Want Brands To Protect Them Against Knockoffs, Fakes, Fraud
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
One-quarter of consumers in a recent study bought counterfeit products, 36% s ...
- Comscore Strikes Deal With Mobile In-Game Ad Company Anzu, Stock Soars On Monday
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 23, 2020
Advertisers will be able to measure in-game ad campaigns in real-time a ...
- Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over Ad Clicks From Fake Accounts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 12, 2020
Siding against Facebook, a federal judge has ruled that the Arkansas compa ...
- CHEQ Acquires Click-Fraud Prevention Firm ClickCease, Expands To Support SMB Advertisers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 22, 2020
CHEQ CEO Guy Tytunovich talks about how the acquisition of ClickCease wi ...
- Facebook Prevails In Fight Over Ad Clicks From Fake Accounts -- For Now
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Facebook by t ...
- Court Revives Click Fraud Claims Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
In a defeat for Google, a federal appellate panel has reinstated ...
- Google Tests Domain URLs That Aim To Help Prevent Scams, Phishing
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Google is testing a feature that will display a website domain na ...
- What Thieves Pay For Passwords -- And Brands' Responsibility To Protect Them
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 9, 2020
More than 15 billion exposed credentials are in circulation on the da ...
- Cybersecurity Firm CHEQ Enters PPC Market To Protect Against Fraud
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
CHEQ PPC provides invalid click prevention across all major paid-search platforms f ...
- Pandemic-Related Malicious Activity Rising, With Online Retailers Hardest Hit
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Spam and opportunistic detection rose 26.3%, while impersonations rose 30.3%, malware ro ...