Fraud is killing your digital marketing campaigns. It’s a bold statement to make but it’s fully justified by recent industry events which have highlighted failings and exposed weaknesses. And it’s affecting big business.
When Uber turned off two-thirds of their annual advertising budget – around $100m – you could be forgiven for thinking there would be consequences to their actions.
But, because of ad fraud, attribution fraud in particular, the ride-share company found basically no change in the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
Digital ad fraud is more than just lost revenue. It can affect your brand reputation if your adverts appear alongside problematic content.
Not monitoring your online advertising could mean your brand is inadvertently helping human traffickers, terrorists or being associated with other criminal activity.
So What Are Bot Clicks? At its simplest, a bot click is when a script or software program using an auto bot commands information from a website link in the same way a human clicking on a link with their mouse would do.
Anyone working in digital marketing knows that click bots are one of the biggest issues facing the industry when it comes to lost revenue. We have been developing Veracity, the digital marketing intelligence dashboard, for a few years now. It began as a tool to help digital marketing agencies (and ourselves – a team of […]
