Report: Fake Accounts and Bots are Proliferating Online; Social Media Companies Aren’t Stopping Them

Let’s say you were able to positively identify more than 15,000 fake social media accounts.  You reported a significant number of them to social media platforms as fake.  Nearly a month later, who many do you think would still be on the platform? If you said 95% of the fake accounts were remaining online, you’d

Brands, Agencies say Lack of ROI Proof & Ad Fraud are Biggest Threats to Digital Budgets

Digital advertising was supposed to give us more transparency.  Better insight with a slew of metrics on clicks and conversions.  The ability to draw a straight line from campaign performance to ROI.  A way to stop wasting advertising dollars through micro-targeting and geo-targeting. Report after report show the incredible waste in digital advertising dollars when people

Study: 18% of all online ad traffic is fraudulent

Cybersecurity company CHEQ is led by Guy Tytunovich, a former Israeli military intelligence officer.  He says the amount of online advertising fraud is grossly underestimated.  A new study released by his company estimates that 18% of all online ad traffic is a fraudulent.  That cost cost advertisers as much as $50 billion in wasted ad

How Much of the Internet is Fake?

Seriously.  If you haven’t read Max Reed’s article “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually” yet, stop what you’re doing and do it right now. Here are just a few of the gems Reed lays out: How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year