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Richard Kahn: July 31, 2018
Roughly 10% or $7.2 billion of ad spend is lost to fraud each year, and the numbers just keep climbing. Ad fraud not only takes a significant chunk out of your ad spend, it has a trickle down effect. It affects your lead generation, brand safety,...
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Richard Kahn: July 26, 2018
The cord-cutting trend isn’t slowing down. With media titans like AT&T and Disney making big moves to offer consumers more streaming options, the market is being inundated with ways to ditch cable.
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Richard Kahn: July 10, 2018
Estimates suggest that by the end of this year, almost $19 billion will be wasted on digital ad fraud, up from last year’s $16.4 billion projection. So, what are we doing to stop it? Why, despite all the latest tools and techniques out there, can’t...
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Anura PR Team: July 3, 2018
There’s a lot of terminology in the massive world of ad fraud. With ad fraud expected to grow exponentially, so do its associated terminologies. Trying to remember what each term or acronym means can be extremely frustrating.
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Anura PR Team: June 28, 2018
The passing of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has ushered in a lot of changes. One notable change is their classification of an IP address as personal data. However, to classify an IP address as personal data is wrong on multiple...
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Richard Kahn: June 26, 2018
With the costs of ad fraud expected to soar to $19 billion in 2018, all players in the digital advertising ecosystem need to be proactive against ad fraud. One way is to ask questions about traffic sources, or where a publisher’s traffic originates,...
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Anura PR Team: June 19, 2018
Zombies, Scrapers, and Bots, oh my!
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Richard Kahn: June 7, 2018
In the digital advertising ecosystem, ad fraud is a serious problem. Ad fraud comes in many different forms, like click fraud, search ad fraud, ad injection, ad stacking, domain spoofing, and pixel stuffing. Each of these schemes are damaging to the...
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Richard Kahn: May 22, 2018
The countdown is on. Later this week, May 25th to be exact, all U.S. companies will be required to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Failure to do so will result in steep fines for violators.
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Anura PR Team: May 17, 2018
Infrastructure plays a key component in detecting ad fraud. The type of infrastructure a company uses will affect how efficiently fraud can be detected. Currently, cloud-based systems are being favored over traditional server-based systems. While...