Friday, August 29, 2014

33% of your Ads Views are Fraud: The Cost of Bots to Online Advertising

This article (http://digiday.com/agencies/hidden-cost-bots/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Digiday%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=DD%20Daily_final) talks about how much bots or NHT are costing the online advertising industry. They speculate that 33% of all traffic is bot generated and that bots are sophisticated enough to spend time on pages, scroll and click through to advertiser web sites.

The effects are that NHT is not only eating up ad spend through wasted impressions but that advertisers are seeing click results through bot traffic and optimizing campaigns towards those fraudulent numbers. 

Bots are unable to do complex actions such as completing registration forms, transacting e-commerce or submitting an email. This is why a immersive experience that encourages deeper interaction is the way to go. Creating ads with a rich experience and vehicle for complex audience interactions combats ad fraud from bots and enables advertisers to accurately determine where their money is best spent.

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