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Richard Kahn: February 3, 2022
Here’s a scenario that we see all too often: A company launches a brand-new ad campaign to promote their products and services. To spread their reach as far as possible, the company partners with a lot of different ad platforms, social media...
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Richard Kahn: December 23, 2021
2021 was a busy year for ad fraud—and there’s every indication that 2022 will be just as busy (if not more so)! Every day, fraudsters concoct new schemes (or modify old ones) to try and steal ad revenue from companies just like yours.
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Richard Kahn: September 29, 2021
Botnets have long been a problem for companies of all sizes to deal with—and for a variety of reasons. Odds are you’ve read a headline or two about how some massive botnet carried out a big cyberattack against some company or industry and stole a...
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Richard Kahn: September 8, 2021
It’s a story the Anura team has heard time and time again: A company launches a massive affiliate marketing campaign and, at first, everything’s working well. They generate a few leads from the campaign, it looks like the return on investment is...
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Richard Kahn: August 25, 2021
For any company running online advertising campaigns or partnering with affiliates to promote their products and services, bot fraud is a major concern. What is a bot, and what does it have to do with fraud?
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Richard Kahn: August 18, 2021
Bots, or automated programs that are designed to carry out specific tasks, are a core part of modern technology. “Good” bot programs do things like help search engines crawl websites to populate your Google searches or automate boring and repetitive...
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Richard Kahn: August 11, 2021
In early 2020, tech industry giant Google announced that it was removing 600 apps from the Google Play Store and banning the app makers from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager for “violating [Google’s] disruptive ads policy and disallowed...
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Anura PR Team: August 4, 2021
Cybercriminals, fraudsters, and scam artists use a wide variety of tools to turn an illicit profit from their victims. One of the most common tools that corporations face is the dreaded botnet attack.
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Richard Kahn: July 21, 2021
To sustain consistent growth, businesses need to gain leads and add new customers. Affiliate marketing campaigns draw on networks of people to help promote a company’s goods and services. Sometimes, the merchant is the one bringing on the...
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Richard Kahn: July 14, 2021
Fraud comes in many forms. Every day, criminals strive to find new ways to defraud companies of their money—including their ad spend. When researching ad fraud, marketing fraud, affiliate fraud, and every other possible permutation of fraud, you may...
