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Click Tracker: How Accurate Click Tracking Can Save Your Ad Campaign

Click spam is where fraudsters generate fake clicks to earn ad revenue or inflate engagement metrics and skew campaign performance metrics. It makes analyzing ad campaign performance difficult with inflated numbers.  

Combat click spamming using multi-layered analysis techniques that include deterministic, heuristic, and behavioral checks. This ensures clicks are coming from legitimate IPs or devices, detects suspicious patterns, like a high volume of clicks from a single source, indicating potential fraud. Looks deeper into user behavior to ensure it aligns with expected patterns, filtering out traffic that doesn’t show genuine user intent.  

Effective click spam prevention ensures that ads reach genuine users who are more likely to convert, rather than wasting impressions on fraudulent traffic. 

To read more visit: Click Tracker

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Click Tracker: How Accurate Click Tracking Can Save Your Ad Campaign

Our google-approved click tracker is more than just a click counter or measurement instead it’s an extension of our capabilities. The follow-up measurement should be clicking fraud prevention differentiating genuine clicks from fraudulent ones with advanced algorithms to analyze traffic, identifying patterns associated with fraud, such as repetitive or high velocity clicks from the same source, and filters them out.  mFilterIt can help advertisers gain visibility into every stage of the conversion funnel, from initial clicks to meaningful user actions. Safeguard ad budgets from making payout for fraudulent clicks and ensures engagements are genuine. Preventing Click SpamClick spam is where fraudsters generate fake clicks to earn ad revenue or inflate engagement metrics and skew campaign performance metrics. It makes analyzing ad campaign performance difficult with inflated numbers.  

To read more visit: Click Tracker

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Click Tracker: How Accurate Click Tracking Can Save Your Ad Campaign

Click spam is where fraudsters generate fake clicks to earn ad revenue or inflate engagement metrics and skew campaign performance metrics. It makes analyzing ad campaign performance difficult with inflated numbers.  

Combat click spamming using multi-layered analysis techniques that include deterministic, heuristic, and behavioral checks. This ensures clicks are coming from legitimate IPs or devices, detects suspicious patterns, like a high volume of clicks from a single source, indicating potential fraud. Looks deeper into user behavior to ensure it aligns with expected patterns, filtering out traffic that doesn’t show genuine user intent.  

Effective click spam prevention ensures that ads reach genuine users who are more likely to convert, rather than wasting impressions on fraudulent traffic. 

To read more visit: How Accurate Click Tracking Can Save Your Ad Campaign

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Click Fraud: Protect Your Ad Campaign

As the digital advertising landscape continues to thrive, more instances of fraud are also being highlighted. A report by ANA (Association of National Advertisers) suggested that advertisers on the platform may have been losing as much as 23% of their ad budgets to fraudulent activities.

Understanding ad fraud may be the most basic yet most important step for advertisers worried about protecting their campaigns and making the most of their ad budgets. This article will help you do exactly that.In the subsequent sections, we will discuss one of the most prevalent forms of digital ad fraud, commonly known as click fraud.

In a nutshell, click fraud is the term used to describe the act of clicking on advertisements with malicious intent. Most fraudsters commit click fraud to claim credit for fraudulent clicks and make a quick buck.Unfortunately, because executing click fraud is relatively simple, it is one of the most common forms of ad fraud.

According to some studies, fraudulent clicks account for as much as 36% of the total clicks on display ads. The story of search ads is similarly harrowing, with some estimates saying 11% of all search ad clicks are fake. Click here to read more about click fraud

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ad fraud detection tool | click fraud detection tools

Valid8's Web Fraud is a cutting-edge SaaS solution designed to safeguard your digital advertising campaigns and websites from the detrimental effects of invalid traffic and fake clicks. With its real-time protection powered by advanced AI and machine learning technology, Valid8 automatically blocks invalid traffic on platforms like Google Ads and Meta Ads, ensuring that your ad budget is utilized effectively. Its sophisticated algorithms not only eliminate bot traffic but also defend against competitor tactics that might drain your budget or undermine your market position. The platform offers granular control over your campaigns through customizable protection settings and provides actionable insights via a user-friendly dashboard. This allows you to monitor ad performance, refine your targeting and bidding strategies, and optimize your ad creatives for better results. With Valid8, you gain comprehensive protection, verification, and optimization capabilities to enhance the effectiveness of your digital advertising investments. To know more visit Valid8 | Ad Traffic Validation.

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A Mirage in The Desert of Digital Advertising: Will You Find Your Way?

Imagine strolling through a desert, thirsty for genuine leads and conversions. Suddenly, an oasis appears—a multitude of clicks, installs, and engagements. It seems like your marketing efforts are paying off, but is this mirage too good to be true?

There are masterminds in the digital ecosystem that are going beyond the thinking capacity of advertisers to steal their money. They are becoming deceptive with their actions and weave a well-planned plot to ensure that the advertisers are unaware of the reality.

As a result, the advertiser often believes what they see and continue investing ad spends on these “painted ad campaigns”.

Though it gives high traffic, the advertiser’s ROI remains low.

But let us throw some light on this cleverly created web of using the case of publisher A.

Click Spamming: A Mirage of Good Traffic

In the ad traffic mix, advertisers see some good traffic sources directed by publisher A. The advertiser trusts publisher A, and the publisher gets their payout. However, the reality is a bit twisted which advertisers often miss.

In reality, the advertiser is paying for its organic traffic.

To keep the advertiser in the dark, the publisher uses the technique of click spamming. Using this ad fraud technique, the publisher fires random clicks and steals the last-click attribution of the genuine source which is also known as ‘Organic poaching’.

Despite the fraud happening in the background, the advertiser sees “unsuspicious traffic” in their ad campaigns. To make it more believable, the fraudulent publishers also use click spamming to meet hard KPIs like purchases. This leaves the scope of doubt for advertisers and the publishers get their payout.

Therefore, to combat sophisticated fraud activities, advertisers need an advanced ad fraud solution that is capable of detecting invalid traffic across the funnel and going beyond the traditional methods of ad fraud verification.

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Decode the Fraud Series: Cracking Down on Click Spamming

While online fraud perhaps started with email spamming, it has come a long way. Today, ad fraud takes many forms, and it costs digital advertisers several billion dollars. The lure of making quick money has motivated modern fraudsters to employ sophisticated techniques to commit fraud.

Ad fraud techniques such as domain spoofing, cookie stuffing, ad stacking, ad injection, geo masking, and many others are just a few of the many techniques employed by modern fraudsters. Ad fraud is a serious problem that drains budgets and can cause long-term damage by skewing campaign performance data.Read more

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Click Integrity Monitoring- A Shield Against Click Fraud

Every click and impression counts!

The dynamic landscape of digital advertising requires advertisers to maintain the integrity of ad campaigns. It might seem an uphill battle to optimize performance and safeguard the ad spend but proactive monitoring and fortifying their ad campaigns can protect them from menace like click fraud and spamming threats.

The burning question here is — are these efforts enough?Read more

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Decode the Fraud Series: Cracking Down on Click Spamming

While online fraud perhaps started with email spamming, it has come a long way. Today, ad fraud takes many forms, and it costs digital advertisers several billion dollars. The lure of making quick money has motivated modern fraudsters to employ sophisticated techniques to commit fraud.

Ad fraud techniques such as domain spoofing, cookie stuffing, ad stacking, ad injection, geo masking, and many others are just a few of the many techniques employed by modern fraudsters. Ad fraud is a serious problem that drains budgets and can cause long-term damage by skewing campaign performance data.Read more

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Fraud in Affiliate Programs. What Can Marketers Do?

Affiliate marketing is going to stay in online marketing for a long time. But, along with its popularity in the digital marketing space, it has also been impacted by fraudulent affiliates who are willing to dig out money from advertisers.

Fraud in affiliate marketing is evolving with time, and fraudsters are finding different ways to scam the merchants. But before we dive into the types of affiliate fraud, let’s start from the basics and understand all about the affiliate program and how it works.Read more

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Identifying Click Spam Deterministically

Within the gamut of techniques resorted by fraudsters to ad fraud, Click Spam is the most common SIVT (Sophisticated Invalid Traffic) method used to spoof the performance. Being the most common technique, 40–50% of the marketing dollars lost due to ad fraud is eaten up by the fraudsters through Click Spam.

So how do we tackle Click Spam deterministically?Read more

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Click Fraud Plaguing the BFSI Sector

Ad Fraud is estimated to cost advertisers and brands an estimated of $44 billion to fraudulent activities by 2022. Studies also indicate that each year $1.5 billion is lost to affiliate marketing fraud.

Imagine the plight when the ad spends which was allocated to acquire new users and expand reach is now being cannibalized by nefarious affiliates!

mFilterIt analyzed affiliate installs in the banking sector towards the beginning of the 2nd quarter of this fiscal year. The result brought to light a very pertinent challenge that is plaguing the digital landscape.

Click Spam, Fake Attribution are all instances of Click Fraud, and they contribute to 74% of fraud.Read more

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Click Injection: Why Should Brands/Advertisers Worry About It?

During the first install session, fraudsters hijack ‘install broadcasts’ using bots/malware, and inject clicks for misattribution with the MMP. This fraud is commonly called click injection and is the most hated fraud by brands/advertisers.

It diminishes click integrity and derails the efforts of providing a safe experience to the user, the backbone of an organization. In addition, it forces brands/advertisers to pay for their ‘own’ traffic from the advertising budget to the fraudster

The reliability of campaign analytics for building marketing strategies is further hampered, and the scary part is that fraudsters build ‘relationships’ with the brands by sharing false performance reports. If we want to add fuel to the fire, cybercriminals also take over user accounts and steal identities and financial details through malwares/bots.Read more

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Why is Clickjacking a Concern for Mobile Network Operators?

Clickjacking involves deliberately making users click a visible webpage with an invisible element in an iframe (hidden in the background). The user unknowingly subscribes to a service by clicking on the consent lodged in the background.

Unfortunately, fraudsters constantly detect similar vulnerabilities of the carrier billing systems of the telcos and overpower consumers’ security. Combating fraud through iframe masking and clickjacking requires a solution to identify every step of the DCB VAS architecture. It would require to integrate appropriate measures to ensure that the Value Added Service (VAS) subscription, don’t happen without informing the user. Read more..

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With the growing trends of mobile advertising, fraudsters are finding new ways to sneak into the digital ad ecosystem and loot the advertiser’s money. One of the known frauds in the mobile advertising segment is Click Injection. According to Statista, followed by SDK spoofing, the click injection cases have increased up to 27% worldwide in 2018.And with the increasing cases, fraudsters are making money while the advertisers are losing their ad spending on ineffective campaigns.

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The Blind Spot: Advertisers' Limited Visibility into Contributing Publishers

Click injection is a sophisticated form of mobile ad fraud that is used to manipulate app installs. It is a technique where a malicious app or a spoofed SDK in a user’s device fires an ad click between the duration of a genuine app download till it’s first open. The genuine publisher loses their payout as the last click is attributed to a fraudulent install. Read more