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Richard Kahn: February 15, 2023
We talk a lot about ad fraud: what it is, how to spot the different types, and how to protect your marketing dollars from it. While these topics are the most immediate areas of concern for those in the business of spending advertising dollars, if...
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Richard Kahn: February 3, 2023
If you’ve been keeping up with the Elon Musk Twitter saga, you might have recently read about his latest move in his self-proclaimed war on bots. He famously claimed he would beat the bots or die trying. He immediately followed with a promise to...
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Richard Kahn: January 18, 2023
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Richard Kahn: January 11, 2023
Online ad fraud didn’t take a holiday, nor should your protection. As the start of a new year often coincides with goal setting and ambitious plans, prioritize protecting your online defense strategy. We won’t rehash it here, but we’ve already...
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Richard Kahn: January 4, 2023
Ad fraud is one of the biggest challenges faced by the digital advertising industry. It cost businesses an estimated $100 billion in 2022, representing only about 20% of the $500 billion in global ad spend. Unfortunately, these types of scams are...
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Richard Kahn: December 14, 2022
Mobile advertising is a key marketing channel for businesses of all types. With roughly 85% of U.S. adults reporting that they own a smartphone (Source: Pew Research Center), the potential impact of advertising through mobile apps should not be...
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Richard Kahn: December 7, 2022
Ad fraud can have a lot of negative impacts on a business. In addition to the wasted ad spend used on fraudulent impressions, clicks, and leads, there’s the increased risk of TCPA violations, wasted sales team time pursuing bad leads, and potential...
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Richard Kahn: November 29, 2022
When there are only 2.4 million winners—a.k.a., Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour ticket buyers—who actually got tickets after a grueling buying process, there's still nearly 10 million more fans not getting to see a show. The ticket buying process was a bit...
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Richard Kahn: November 23, 2022
Ad fraud solutions are a crucial tool for protecting your organization against the negative impacts of ad fraud. However, not all ad fraud detection and remediation tools are created equally. In fact, some ad fraud solutions fail at providing basic...
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Richard Kahn: November 22, 2022
Bots and social media seem to go hand-in-hand, and no one made this more public than Elon Musk when he declared war on bots as part of his plans for Twitter, then cited the excess of spam accounts as his primary reason for trying to get out of the...