digital ad fraud comes in many forms; this is an infographic to show the different types of ads and the amount of fraud of each type, by stage of the purchase funnel.
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Ad fraud by type by augustine fou digital forensics
1. Ad Fraud By Type
impressions
clicks
leads
sales
Est. Fraud Dollars
Display 50% $4B
Video 60% $2B
Mobile 40% $2B
Search 30% $6B
$7B
NOTE: “mobile” consists of display
and search so part of the mobile spend
is allocated to impression fraud and
part to click fraud.
$7B
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2. Ad Fraud is Multi-tiered
Mainstream sites with bot traffic
• Legitimate publishers with real content that humans
want to read
• An unknown percentage of traffic is due to bots (good
and malicious)
Sites that “cheat”
• Stacked ads, auto-refresh
• High ad-load, low viewability
• Purchased traffic, audience expansion
Sites created for ad fraud
• Created by template/algo
• Enormous quantity of ads
• All traffic/impressions from bots
PUBLISHER
FRAUD SITE
user
bot
user
crawler
user
bot
bot
bot
bot
bot
bot
bot
Domain Level Fraud User Level Fraud
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3. Dr. Augustine Fou – Digital Consigliere
“I advise clients on optimizing
advertising across all channels. One
main area of focus is reducing ad waste
due to fraud – fake impressions, clicks,
leads, and sales.”
FORMER CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER, HCG (OMNICOM)
MCKINSEY CONSULTANT
CLIENT SIDE / AGENCY SIDE EXPERIENCE
PROFESSOR AND COLUMNIST
ENTREPRENEUR / SMALL BUSINESS OWNER
PHD MATERIALS SCIENCE (MIT '95) AT AGE 23
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