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Richard Kahn: June 8, 2022
With the recent news involving Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter being put on hold because of worries about fake accounts on the platform, now may be a good time to talk about the problem of ad fraud on social media, fake social media accounts, and...
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Richard Kahn: June 1, 2022
Elon Musk, the business magnate and richest man in the world worth $265 billion USD, is looking to buy Twitter. The social media platform with roughly 463 million monthly active users (MAU) may no longer rank in the top 10 most popular social media...
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Richard Kahn: May 25, 2022
Bots, programs that are used to automate common tasks for human users, have been around almost as long as computers themselves. Good bots have all kinds of uses. For example, Google uses bots to crawl the web and index web pages so their users can...
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Richard Kahn: May 11, 2022
There are many tools that fraudsters use in their schemes to take money from your company’s online advertising campaigns. Even legitimate technology solutions that are meant to help consumers can be twisted into tools for fraud.
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Richard Kahn: April 20, 2022
Online advertising has enormous potential to help businesses win new customers. With over 4.6 billion people actively using the internet in some way or form, it’s easy to see why online advertising would be an attractive option.
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Richard Kahn: April 13, 2022
Social media has become an incredible tool for sharing information. Social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and even TikTok have soared in popularity over the last decade. According to data from the Pew Research Center, social media...
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Richard Kahn: April 6, 2022
Advertising is a crucial activity for any business. Being able to attract new customers, entice existing customers into closing new deals, and even just keep your brand top of mind among your target audience is crucial for maintaining (and growing)...
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Richard Kahn: March 30, 2022
Risk management is an important part of any business operation—especially since no business workflow is absolutely risk-free. Ad campaigns are no exception to this rule. Every online ad campaign is subject to some risk of ad fraud—whether it takes...
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Richard Kahn: March 23, 2022
Bot-based fraud is a constant risk for anyone running an online ad campaign. Form bots are an especially dangerous threat—one that can quickly drain your marketing budget and leave you with no results for all the money you’ve spent.
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Richard Kahn: March 16, 2022
Pay-per-click (PPC), or cost-per-click (CPC), advertising has been around since the 1990’s. However, it really took off when Google, the search engine that most of the world uses today, launched their PPC Adwords service in 2002.