Back in 2019 we ran a talk for Leeds Digital Festival – The Bots Are Coming. It’s 2024 and the bots are here and they’re wreaking havoc.
Globally the estimated digital advertising spend lost to ad fraud in 2022 came to $68 billion according to research from Juniper.
First party IDs are helping digital marketing move forward into a cookieless future.
The use of third party cookies has previously allowed advertisers to provide targeted adverts to users based on their browsing behaviours. However, in recent years each of the main browser – Microsoft’s Edge, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari – have removed third party cookies.
Google’s new Performance Max is designed to buy ads across the company’s full range of advertising channels and inventory.
However, since the extension to Smart Shopping was rolled out, there’s been concerns about how it actually “performs” and specific worries about ad placement and difficulties in accessing data from your campaigns.
One of the challenges when running PPC campaigns is that once they are setup and working well it is easy to take you eyes off the ball. This is especially true if your marketing job is multi-disciplinary and, metaphorically speaking, not dissimilar to spinning plates at the circus.
There’s a famous saying about shouting into the void which I suspect a lot of marketers ask themselves about their digital marketing efforts.
But discovering whether we are just doing one of all those other phrases which highlight the difficulties of tracking whether or not all the time and money we spend on our marketing is a vital piece of the puzzle.
Award-winning malicious bot protection.
Cyber Award Winner 2021
AI-Enabled Data Solution of the Year – DataIQ Awards 2023 Finalist
Tech Innovation of the Year Winner – Leeds Digital Festival Awards
Cyber Security Company of the Year – UK Business Tech Awards 2023 Finalist
Tech Leader of the Year – Tech Awards 2023 Finalist
Best Use of AI – Tech Awards 2023 Highly Commended
