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Richard Kahn: March 29, 2023
One is the loneliest number. Two’s company. Three’s a crowd. 5,329 is too many marketing partners to share a lead with. According to the FCC’s cease and desist letter, sent in response to scam robocalls concerning student loan debts, even when...
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Richard Kahn: March 22, 2023
In this three-part series focused on the gaming industry, we’ve provided a broad overview of ad fraud in online gaming and the threats that span across this industry. We have also explored what game companies must do to succeed and the challenges...
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Richard Kahn: March 22, 2023
Online gaming has always helped foster connections between people no matter where they are. This can also make them an easy target for online fraudsters. When the pandemic kicked into high gear, keeping people close when isolated created a rich...
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Richard Kahn: March 22, 2023
We’ve talked about ad fraud in general and in very specific contexts on this blog. Though the situations and context can change, the results are the same: everyone loses when ad fraud is in play.
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Richard Kahn: March 15, 2023
Marketers say one of the biggest challenges they will face this year is generating more leads. While always a priority, economic uncertainties could make things more challenging as consumers and businesses may put off certain purchasing decisions.
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Richard Kahn: March 8, 2023
When you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, it’s easy to see the problem—too many cars going in the same direction at the same time or a lane shut down due to an accident or broken-down vehicle. Whatever the cause, most of this traffic involves vehicles...
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Beth Kahn: February 23, 2023
Regardless of whether it’s perpetrated by malicious botnets or humans behind keyboards, fraud costs advertisers money. Botnets are cheap to rent, with some costing less than $9 an hour. For just more than $2,000, a bad actor can run an ad fraud...
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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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Anura PR Team: February 8, 2023
Performance marketing can span many marketing channels, but in short, it is a digital advertising program that is paid based on the achievement of specific, pre-set quantifiable goals—for example, providing a...
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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...