Tag Archives: click fraud

Understanding Digital Ad Fraud and Bot Traffic

| April 26, 2017

Much has been made of the rise of fraudulent digital ad traffic over the last couple years, with headlines such as “Russian Ring of Digital Ad Crooks is Reportedly Making Over $3 Million a Day” and “Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views” making a splash in the press. Hackers! Russian rings! […]

Click Fraud: The Dark Side of Digital Media

| May 22, 2014

Recently, a number of DAC clients have expressed concern around Click Fraud and the impacts, if any, it could have on their media programs.  I remember in the early 2000`s, long before automated PPC bid management was in play, having my own concerns around click fraud and actively monitoring campaigns to see if there really […]