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Is What You
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February 11, 2014

Augustine Fou, Ph.D
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Your speaker for today: Augustine Fou
 Ph.D, Materials Science, MIT ’95
 Chief Digital Officer, HCG (Omnicom)

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Digital Ad Fraud

Briefing
Dr. Augustine Fou
http://linkd.in/augustinefou

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Augustine Fou
AGENDA
• Background

• Impression (CPM) Ad Fraud (Display, Video)
• Search (CPC) Click Fraud
• Affiliate (CPA) Revenue Share Fraud
• Lead (CPL) Fraud
• Current Industry Initiatives
• Looking Ahead
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Augustine Fou
Background
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Augustine Fou
Why Now?
“As more ad inventory is bought and sold
programmatically on ad exchanges, bad
guys are finding it far easier to commit fraud
because few agencies and advertisers
actually check in detail the hundreds of
thousands of sites on which the ads are run.
It’s easier to hide in a far larger haystack.”
-- Dr. Augustine Fou
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Waste Due to Fraud
• Display ad fraud is the easiest to commit and
bad guys sell tons of “junk” inventory into ad
exchanges.

30-75%

• Video ad fraud is the new area of focus because
video ad impressions are 10x more lucrative
than display

50-80%

• Search ad click fraud is harder to commit,
because it involves several steps, and usually
occurs on “search partner network” sites; but
high spending categories like insurance and high
CPC categories like pharma are favorite targets

20-40%

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Augustine Fou
How Impression (CPM)
Ad Fraud Works
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Augustine Fou
Bad Guys Put Up Sites
site = analyzecanceradvice .com

site = missomoms.com

19 blocked ads on page

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Augustine Fou
Load Tons of Ads on Pages

http://modernbab y.com/
http://interiorcom plex.com/

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Augustine Fou
Use Bots to Load the Pages

Source: Wired
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Augustine Fou
Sell Impressions on Exchanges
“Modernbaby.com and Interiorcomplex.com
Each of these sites peddles enormous traffic on the
exchanges. For example, on a recent day Modern
Baby was offering 19 million impressions via one
exchange (quite the baby boom) and Interior
Complex 30 million [ad impressions PER DAY] (the
roaring housing market must be back).”
Source:
Adweek – Suspicious Web Domains Cost Online Ad
Business $400m per Year
By Mike Shields
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Augustine Fou
Impression (CPM)
Ad Fraud Sizing
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Augustine Fou
Display Ad Impressions

30 – 75%
fraudulent, not-in-view, adblocked
IAB: FY 2012 Display Ad Spend = $7.7B

• By far, the easiest to commit – fill a web page with many
display ads and repeatedly load the page with scripts or bots
• Clients pay on CPM basis and are usually goaled on the
number of impressions delivered and CPM
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Augustine Fou
Bot Traffic Estimates
24-29%
confirmed
bot

Source: Solve Media Sept 2013
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Augustine Fou
Traffic Firehose On/Off
Source: Alexa

Legit human traffic does not change rapidly; but bot traffic
(firehose) can be rapidly turned off and directed to other sites.
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Augustine Fou
Where Fake Impressions Come From
Ad exchanges are particularly prone to fraud because shady sites sell enormous
quantities “ad impression inventory” into the exchanges for re-sale.

Source: Integral Ad Science, via BusinessWeek Nov 26, 2013
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Augustine Fou
Video Ad Impressions

50 - 77%
fraudulent, autoplay, wasted, not-in-view
Source: Vindico via Adweek, December 15, 2013

eMarketer: Digital Video Ad Spend est. $4B in 2013

• Advanced bots are programmed to load video ads and wait
till they are counted as “views” before leaving the page
• Video ads have 10x the CPM compared with display ads, and
are therefore a prime target for „bad guys‟
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Augustine Fou
Video Ad Views Exploded
Dec 2013 35.2B
video ads per month

Source: comScore, Jan 2014 via MarketingCharts
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Augustine Fou
Digital Video Ad Spend
Source: eMarketer, May 2013

Digital video ad
spend continues to
rise rapidly as more
TV ad dollars shift to
digital.

Because video CPMs
are so much more
lucrative, it is more
lucrative for bad guys
too.
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Augustine Fou
Video Ads Are Lucrative
Video ad CPMs
are $8 - $12,
which means
they are more
than 10X more
lucrative than
display or
mobile ads.
Source: Turn, Inc.
October 2013
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Augustine Fou
Impression (CPM) Fraud
Display Ads

Video Ads

500 billion

35 billion

display ad impressions /mo

video ad impressions /mo

29%

40%

Source: Solve Media 2013

Source: Vindico, 2013

confirmed bot traffic

~$1 - $3.50

~$8 - $12

cost per thousand

cost per thousand

$2-6 billion

$1-2 billion

wasted ad spend (annualized)
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estimated fake views

wasted ad spend (annualized)
Augustine Fou
How Search (CPC)
Click Fraud Works
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Augustine Fou
Choose Expensive Keywords
olay.com

homemadesimple.com

> 100,000 monthly searches
avg position 1 – 10
sort by highest avg CPC
“cosmetic face lift”

“residential home cleaning”

$10.84 CPC

$9.95 CPC

Source: iSpionage Nov 2013
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Augustine Fou
Bots Type Search Term
healthsiteproduc tionalways.com

buy eye cream online

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Augustine Fou
Bots Click Search Ad

Olay.com ad
in #1 position

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Augustine Fou
Redirect Link(s)
Known blackhat
technique to hide real
referrer and replace
with faked referrer.
SIX (6) redirects
before ending on the
landing page
See how-to:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/
blackhat-seo/cloaking-contentgenerators/36830-cloakingredirect-referer.html
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Augustine Fou
Pass Fake URL Trackers
http://www.olay.com/skin
-care-products/OlayProX?utm_source=msn&utm
_medium=cpc&utm_cam
paign=Olay_Search_Desk
top_Category+Interest+Pr
oduct.Phrase&utm_term=
eye%20cream&utm_cont
ent=TZsrSzFz_eye%20cr
eam_p_2990456911

Click thru URL
passing fake source
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Augustine Fou
Search (CPC)
Click Fraud Sizing
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Augustine Fou
Search Ad Clicks

20 - 40%
fraudulent, accidental, wasted
Source: Adometry Click Fraud Report 1H 2013
IAB: FY 2012 Search Ad Spend = $16.8B

• Search ad fraud is a bit more involved to commit and usually
occurs on “search partner” sites (not the main search sites)
• Bad guys set up sites with no content, execute searches with
lucrative keywords, and click the ads with bots
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Augustine Fou
Click Fraud by Qtr

Source: ClickForensics 2011
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Augustine Fou
Bot Clicks vs Humans
Humans actually click
on buttons and menu
items (mouse moves
and clicks)

Bots don‟t bother
disguising their click
locations and don‟t
show mouse traces.
Source: Spider.io Feb 2013
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Augustine Fou
Before and After

BEFORE

AFTER

Top 2 “good guys” = 76%

Top 5 “good guys” = 94%

18% of spend shifted from fraudulent websites to “top 5” good guys
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Augustine Fou
Biggest PPC Spenders
Insurance est. Spending:
-

Statefarm.com - $46M /yr
Geico.com - $44M
Progressive.com - $34M
Esurance.com - $28M
Allstate.com - $25M
USAA.com - $21M

Many CPCs from $60 - $78

Retailers est. Spending:
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Walmart.com - $48M /yr
Sears.com - $18M annually
Macys.com - $11M per year
JCPenney.com - $9.6M

CPCs range from $15 - $63

Augustine Fou
More Examples of
Bad Guy Sites
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Augustine Fou
Other Bad Guy Domains
http://analyzecanceradvice .com
http://analyzecancerhelp .com
http://bestcanceropinion .com
http://bestcancerproducts .com
http://bestcancerresults .com
http://besthealthopinion .com
http://bettercanceradvice .com
http://bettercancerhelp .com
http://betterhealthopinion .com
http://findcanceropinion .com
http://findcancerresource .com
http://findcancertopics .com
http://findhealthopinion .com
http://finestcanceradvice .com
http://finestcancerhelp .com
http://finestcancerresults .com
http://getcancerproducts .com
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36,000+ more
sites like these,
designed to show
search ads and
self-click on them
to siphon CPC
revenue
Augustine Fou
Screen Shots of Sites
Alexa
[no data]

Compete
[no data]

Quantcast
[no data]
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Augustine Fou
Identical Template Sites
http://picturesandbox.com/screengrab/grid.php

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Augustine Fou
Hundreds of Identical
Sites
Source: more screen captures
http://picturesandbox.com/screengrab/grouped.php

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Augustine Fou
Affiliate Sales (CPA)
Revenue Share Fraud
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Augustine Fou
Affiliate Sales Fraud

http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-the-fbi-shawn-hogan-and-brian-dunning-2013-4
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Augustine Fou
Not Human-Readable
Characteristics
• Auto-generated by bots,
stuffed with search keywords
• To attract organic search traffic
• Not human readable (low
instance of natural phrases)
• Stuffed with affiliate links and
display ads

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Augustine Fou
Affiliate Links on Page
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BXF7I9M/panandscathed-20

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/itemdetails.asp?EdpNo=7674736&SRCCODE=LINKSHARE&cm_mmc_o=ddCjC1bELltzywCjCd2CjCdwwp&utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=TnL5H
PStwNw&AffiliateID=TnL5HPStwNw-Hc5zkpsnZO2pj1vg.2uttw

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Augustine Fou
Affiliate Rev Shares
Camera rev shares:
$25 - $78

Computer
$15 - $28
Electronics
$13 - $56
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Augustine Fou
Other Forms of
Digital Fraud
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Augustine Fou
Lead Fraud ~ 20-40%

http://www.webranking.com/blog/lead-click-fraud-adsense-scamgoogle-adwords-advertisers
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Augustine Fou
Current Industry
Initiatives
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Augustine Fou
Industry Players
Nielsen/IAB

IntegralAds (AdSafe)

DoubleVerify

Industry working group to
define ad viewability.

Verify ad placement against
blacklist of known fraudulent
websites.

Ad placement, behavioral
compliance, fraud
detection

Viewable rates (of display ads)
ranged from 14% to 79%.

PageFair

Viewable rates (of display
ads) ranged from 14% to
79%.

Ad blocking detection

Spider.io

Solve Media

Also detection of bot-like
activity and other malware.

Using CAPTCHAs to detect
humans versus bots.

Botnet Costing Display
Advertisers $6 Million per
month. Feb 2013

Global Bot Traffic on Pace to
Waste Up to $9.5 billion in 2013
Ad Budgets. Sep 2013

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WhiteOps
Realtime bot detection
algorithms

Augustine Fou
Digital Ad Fraud
Countermeasures
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Augustine Fou
Blacklisting Sites
Value
Exclude sites from
serving your ads

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Caveat
For every site
excluded, bad guys put
up more (because they
don’t have to play by the
rules).

Augustine Fou
Enforcing Viewability
Value

Caveat

Only pay for ads which
are viewable (i.e.
above the-fold)

Bad guys have already
defeated “viewability” by
stuffing ads in hidden
layers, all above-the-fold.

Source: Spider.io May 2, 2013
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Augustine Fou
Detecting Bot Traffic
Value

Caveat

Good guys use algorithms
to detect unusual
behaviors indicative of
bots (rather than humans)

It‟s an arms race between
good and bad; bots are more
sophisticated and can fake
mouse movements and keep
cookies.

Source: Spider.io March 2013
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Augustine Fou
Using CAPTCHAs
Value

Caveat

Captchas deter bots from
filling in forms and stealing
content and cookies.

Some bots can now solve some
captchas, most captchas don‟t
protect content pages.

Source: Solve Media Dec 31 2013
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“Startup called Vicarious
automatically solves
CAPTCHAs.” Oct 2013
http://bit.ly/1bFo9lZ
Augustine Fou
What Advertisers
Can/Should Do
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Augustine Fou
Areas of Optimization
Percent of Ad
Spend Impacted

30%

40%
30%
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targeting

improving
optimization

delivery
viewability

bots /not seen by humans

waste
reduction
Augustine Fou
Low Hanging Fruit
The most immediate, direct impact on ROI comes from reducing waste

25% On-Target Delivery
(Nielsen)

54% Not In View
(comScore)

23% Ad Blocked
(PageFair)

24 – 29% confirmed bot
(Solve Media)

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Augustine Fou
Digital Ad Forensics Process
Preliminary Scan
Sizing of
ad fraud

Forensic Analysis

Maintenance

• Technology Tools
• Statistical analysis

• Budget shifts
• Further optimization

Implementation

FREE

$$$

Preliminary analysis of
paid campaigns and
analytics to determine
magnitude of the ad
fraud impacting client.

Creating recommended
list of changes, including
list of sites to exclude in
each ad channel.

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$
Subscribe to triangulated,
cross-industry database of
“ad fraud offenders” to
continuously update
blacklists and whitelists.
Augustine Fou
Related Articles
Digital Ad Fraud Briefing
By: Augustine Fou December 2013

Fake YouTube Videos
By: Augustine Fou, December 2013

Ad Fraud Fighting Techniques
By: Augustine Fou October 2013

Fake Linkedin Profiles
By: Augustine Fou, December 2013

How Display Fraud Works
By: Augustine Fou, May 2013

Fake Facebook Profiles
By: Augustine Fou, Dec 2013

How Click Fraud Works
By: Augustine Fou, November 2013

Fake Twitter Accounts
By: Augustine Fou, August 2013

The Magnitude of Digital Ad Fraud
By: Augustine Fou, November 2013

An Ecosystem of Digital Ad Fraud
By: Augustine Fou, October 2013

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Biznology Webinar on Digital Ad Fraud Mike Moran Augustine Fou

  • 1. Thanks for joining! Is What You Don't Know about Ad Fraud Costing You Big Money? February 11, 2014 Augustine Fou, Ph.D We’ll be starting soon! www.biznology.com © 2014 Mike Moran Group LLC
  • 2. Your moderator for today: Mike Moran  Former Engineer Distinguished  A senior strategist at  Author of two popular books on Internet marketing  Founder of @MikeMoran -2- 2 blog mike@mikemoran.com 201-477-8380 © 2013 Mike Moran Group LLC © 2014 Mike Moran Group LLC
  • 3. Is What You Don't Know about Ad Fraud Costing You Big Money? Thanks to all of our sponsors Augustine Fou, Ph.D -3- 3 © 2013 Mike Moran Group LLC © 2014 Mike Moran Group LLC
  • 4. Click the orange arrow -4- 4 © 2013 Mike Moran Group LLC © 2014 Mike Moran Group LLC
  • 5. Your speaker for today: Augustine Fou  Ph.D, Materials Science, MIT ’95  Chief Digital Officer, HCG (Omnicom)  McKinsey Consultant  Client side/agency side experience  Professor at Rutgers, NYU  Entrepreneur/small business owner  Columnist/Speaker ClickZ Articles: http://bit.ly/augustine-fou-clickz Slideshare: http://bit.ly/augustine-fou-slideshares LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/augustinefou @acfou -5- augustine.fou3@gmail.com 212-203-7239 © 2013 Mike Moran Group LLC © 2014 Mike Moran Group LLC
  • 6. Digital Ad Fraud Briefing Dr. Augustine Fou http://linkd.in/augustinefou -6- Augustine Fou
  • 7. AGENDA • Background • Impression (CPM) Ad Fraud (Display, Video) • Search (CPC) Click Fraud • Affiliate (CPA) Revenue Share Fraud • Lead (CPL) Fraud • Current Industry Initiatives • Looking Ahead -7- Augustine Fou
  • 9. Why Now? “As more ad inventory is bought and sold programmatically on ad exchanges, bad guys are finding it far easier to commit fraud because few agencies and advertisers actually check in detail the hundreds of thousands of sites on which the ads are run. It’s easier to hide in a far larger haystack.” -- Dr. Augustine Fou -9- Augustine Fou
  • 10. Waste Due to Fraud • Display ad fraud is the easiest to commit and bad guys sell tons of “junk” inventory into ad exchanges. 30-75% • Video ad fraud is the new area of focus because video ad impressions are 10x more lucrative than display 50-80% • Search ad click fraud is harder to commit, because it involves several steps, and usually occurs on “search partner network” sites; but high spending categories like insurance and high CPC categories like pharma are favorite targets 20-40% - 10 - Augustine Fou
  • 11. How Impression (CPM) Ad Fraud Works - 11 - Augustine Fou
  • 12. Bad Guys Put Up Sites site = analyzecanceradvice .com site = missomoms.com 19 blocked ads on page - 12 - Augustine Fou
  • 13. Load Tons of Ads on Pages http://modernbab y.com/ http://interiorcom plex.com/ - 13 - Augustine Fou
  • 14. Use Bots to Load the Pages Source: Wired - 14 - Augustine Fou
  • 15. Sell Impressions on Exchanges “Modernbaby.com and Interiorcomplex.com Each of these sites peddles enormous traffic on the exchanges. For example, on a recent day Modern Baby was offering 19 million impressions via one exchange (quite the baby boom) and Interior Complex 30 million [ad impressions PER DAY] (the roaring housing market must be back).” Source: Adweek – Suspicious Web Domains Cost Online Ad Business $400m per Year By Mike Shields - 15 - Augustine Fou
  • 16. Impression (CPM) Ad Fraud Sizing - 16 - Augustine Fou
  • 17. Display Ad Impressions 30 – 75% fraudulent, not-in-view, adblocked IAB: FY 2012 Display Ad Spend = $7.7B • By far, the easiest to commit – fill a web page with many display ads and repeatedly load the page with scripts or bots • Clients pay on CPM basis and are usually goaled on the number of impressions delivered and CPM - 17 - Augustine Fou
  • 18. Bot Traffic Estimates 24-29% confirmed bot Source: Solve Media Sept 2013 - 18 - Augustine Fou
  • 19. Traffic Firehose On/Off Source: Alexa Legit human traffic does not change rapidly; but bot traffic (firehose) can be rapidly turned off and directed to other sites. - 19 - Augustine Fou
  • 20. Where Fake Impressions Come From Ad exchanges are particularly prone to fraud because shady sites sell enormous quantities “ad impression inventory” into the exchanges for re-sale. Source: Integral Ad Science, via BusinessWeek Nov 26, 2013 - 20 - Augustine Fou
  • 21. Video Ad Impressions 50 - 77% fraudulent, autoplay, wasted, not-in-view Source: Vindico via Adweek, December 15, 2013 eMarketer: Digital Video Ad Spend est. $4B in 2013 • Advanced bots are programmed to load video ads and wait till they are counted as “views” before leaving the page • Video ads have 10x the CPM compared with display ads, and are therefore a prime target for „bad guys‟ - 21 - Augustine Fou
  • 22. Video Ad Views Exploded Dec 2013 35.2B video ads per month Source: comScore, Jan 2014 via MarketingCharts - 22 - Augustine Fou
  • 23. Digital Video Ad Spend Source: eMarketer, May 2013 Digital video ad spend continues to rise rapidly as more TV ad dollars shift to digital. Because video CPMs are so much more lucrative, it is more lucrative for bad guys too. - 23 - Augustine Fou
  • 24. Video Ads Are Lucrative Video ad CPMs are $8 - $12, which means they are more than 10X more lucrative than display or mobile ads. Source: Turn, Inc. October 2013 - 24 - Augustine Fou
  • 25. Impression (CPM) Fraud Display Ads Video Ads 500 billion 35 billion display ad impressions /mo video ad impressions /mo 29% 40% Source: Solve Media 2013 Source: Vindico, 2013 confirmed bot traffic ~$1 - $3.50 ~$8 - $12 cost per thousand cost per thousand $2-6 billion $1-2 billion wasted ad spend (annualized) - 25 - estimated fake views wasted ad spend (annualized) Augustine Fou
  • 26. How Search (CPC) Click Fraud Works - 26 - Augustine Fou
  • 27. Choose Expensive Keywords olay.com homemadesimple.com > 100,000 monthly searches avg position 1 – 10 sort by highest avg CPC “cosmetic face lift” “residential home cleaning” $10.84 CPC $9.95 CPC Source: iSpionage Nov 2013 - 27 - Augustine Fou
  • 28. Bots Type Search Term healthsiteproduc tionalways.com buy eye cream online - 28 - Augustine Fou
  • 29. Bots Click Search Ad Olay.com ad in #1 position - 29 - Augustine Fou
  • 30. Redirect Link(s) Known blackhat technique to hide real referrer and replace with faked referrer. SIX (6) redirects before ending on the landing page See how-to: http://www.blackhatworld.com/ blackhat-seo/cloaking-contentgenerators/36830-cloakingredirect-referer.html - 30 - Augustine Fou
  • 31. Pass Fake URL Trackers http://www.olay.com/skin -care-products/OlayProX?utm_source=msn&utm _medium=cpc&utm_cam paign=Olay_Search_Desk top_Category+Interest+Pr oduct.Phrase&utm_term= eye%20cream&utm_cont ent=TZsrSzFz_eye%20cr eam_p_2990456911 Click thru URL passing fake source - 31 - Augustine Fou
  • 32. Search (CPC) Click Fraud Sizing - 32 - Augustine Fou
  • 33. Search Ad Clicks 20 - 40% fraudulent, accidental, wasted Source: Adometry Click Fraud Report 1H 2013 IAB: FY 2012 Search Ad Spend = $16.8B • Search ad fraud is a bit more involved to commit and usually occurs on “search partner” sites (not the main search sites) • Bad guys set up sites with no content, execute searches with lucrative keywords, and click the ads with bots - 33 - Augustine Fou
  • 34. Click Fraud by Qtr Source: ClickForensics 2011 - 34 - Augustine Fou
  • 35. Bot Clicks vs Humans Humans actually click on buttons and menu items (mouse moves and clicks) Bots don‟t bother disguising their click locations and don‟t show mouse traces. Source: Spider.io Feb 2013 - 35 - Augustine Fou
  • 36. Before and After BEFORE AFTER Top 2 “good guys” = 76% Top 5 “good guys” = 94% 18% of spend shifted from fraudulent websites to “top 5” good guys - 36 - Augustine Fou
  • 37. Biggest PPC Spenders Insurance est. Spending: - Statefarm.com - $46M /yr Geico.com - $44M Progressive.com - $34M Esurance.com - $28M Allstate.com - $25M USAA.com - $21M Many CPCs from $60 - $78 Retailers est. Spending: - 37 - Walmart.com - $48M /yr Sears.com - $18M annually Macys.com - $11M per year JCPenney.com - $9.6M CPCs range from $15 - $63 Augustine Fou
  • 38. More Examples of Bad Guy Sites - 38 - Augustine Fou
  • 39. Other Bad Guy Domains http://analyzecanceradvice .com http://analyzecancerhelp .com http://bestcanceropinion .com http://bestcancerproducts .com http://bestcancerresults .com http://besthealthopinion .com http://bettercanceradvice .com http://bettercancerhelp .com http://betterhealthopinion .com http://findcanceropinion .com http://findcancerresource .com http://findcancertopics .com http://findhealthopinion .com http://finestcanceradvice .com http://finestcancerhelp .com http://finestcancerresults .com http://getcancerproducts .com - 39 - 36,000+ more sites like these, designed to show search ads and self-click on them to siphon CPC revenue Augustine Fou
  • 40. Screen Shots of Sites Alexa [no data] Compete [no data] Quantcast [no data] - 40 - Augustine Fou
  • 42. Hundreds of Identical Sites Source: more screen captures http://picturesandbox.com/screengrab/grouped.php - 42 - Augustine Fou
  • 43. Affiliate Sales (CPA) Revenue Share Fraud - 43 - Augustine Fou
  • 45. Not Human-Readable Characteristics • Auto-generated by bots, stuffed with search keywords • To attract organic search traffic • Not human readable (low instance of natural phrases) • Stuffed with affiliate links and display ads - 45 - Augustine Fou
  • 46. Affiliate Links on Page http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BXF7I9M/panandscathed-20 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/itemdetails.asp?EdpNo=7674736&SRCCODE=LINKSHARE&cm_mmc_o=ddCjC1bELltzywCjCd2CjCdwwp&utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=TnL5H PStwNw&AffiliateID=TnL5HPStwNw-Hc5zkpsnZO2pj1vg.2uttw - 46 - Augustine Fou
  • 47. Affiliate Rev Shares Camera rev shares: $25 - $78 Computer $15 - $28 Electronics $13 - $56 - 47 - Augustine Fou
  • 48. Other Forms of Digital Fraud - 48 - Augustine Fou
  • 49. Lead Fraud ~ 20-40% http://www.webranking.com/blog/lead-click-fraud-adsense-scamgoogle-adwords-advertisers - 49 - Augustine Fou
  • 51. Industry Players Nielsen/IAB IntegralAds (AdSafe) DoubleVerify Industry working group to define ad viewability. Verify ad placement against blacklist of known fraudulent websites. Ad placement, behavioral compliance, fraud detection Viewable rates (of display ads) ranged from 14% to 79%. PageFair Viewable rates (of display ads) ranged from 14% to 79%. Ad blocking detection Spider.io Solve Media Also detection of bot-like activity and other malware. Using CAPTCHAs to detect humans versus bots. Botnet Costing Display Advertisers $6 Million per month. Feb 2013 Global Bot Traffic on Pace to Waste Up to $9.5 billion in 2013 Ad Budgets. Sep 2013 - 51 - WhiteOps Realtime bot detection algorithms Augustine Fou
  • 53. Blacklisting Sites Value Exclude sites from serving your ads - 53 - Caveat For every site excluded, bad guys put up more (because they don’t have to play by the rules). Augustine Fou
  • 54. Enforcing Viewability Value Caveat Only pay for ads which are viewable (i.e. above the-fold) Bad guys have already defeated “viewability” by stuffing ads in hidden layers, all above-the-fold. Source: Spider.io May 2, 2013 - 54 - Augustine Fou
  • 55. Detecting Bot Traffic Value Caveat Good guys use algorithms to detect unusual behaviors indicative of bots (rather than humans) It‟s an arms race between good and bad; bots are more sophisticated and can fake mouse movements and keep cookies. Source: Spider.io March 2013 - 55 - Augustine Fou
  • 56. Using CAPTCHAs Value Caveat Captchas deter bots from filling in forms and stealing content and cookies. Some bots can now solve some captchas, most captchas don‟t protect content pages. Source: Solve Media Dec 31 2013 - 56 - “Startup called Vicarious automatically solves CAPTCHAs.” Oct 2013 http://bit.ly/1bFo9lZ Augustine Fou
  • 57. What Advertisers Can/Should Do - 57 - Augustine Fou
  • 58. Areas of Optimization Percent of Ad Spend Impacted 30% 40% 30% - 58 - targeting improving optimization delivery viewability bots /not seen by humans waste reduction Augustine Fou
  • 59. Low Hanging Fruit The most immediate, direct impact on ROI comes from reducing waste 25% On-Target Delivery (Nielsen) 54% Not In View (comScore) 23% Ad Blocked (PageFair) 24 – 29% confirmed bot (Solve Media) - 59 - Augustine Fou
  • 60. Digital Ad Forensics Process Preliminary Scan Sizing of ad fraud Forensic Analysis Maintenance • Technology Tools • Statistical analysis • Budget shifts • Further optimization Implementation FREE $$$ Preliminary analysis of paid campaigns and analytics to determine magnitude of the ad fraud impacting client. Creating recommended list of changes, including list of sites to exclude in each ad channel. - 60 - $ Subscribe to triangulated, cross-industry database of “ad fraud offenders” to continuously update blacklists and whitelists. Augustine Fou
  • 61. Related Articles Digital Ad Fraud Briefing By: Augustine Fou December 2013 Fake YouTube Videos By: Augustine Fou, December 2013 Ad Fraud Fighting Techniques By: Augustine Fou October 2013 Fake Linkedin Profiles By: Augustine Fou, December 2013 How Display Fraud Works By: Augustine Fou, May 2013 Fake Facebook Profiles By: Augustine Fou, Dec 2013 How Click Fraud Works By: Augustine Fou, November 2013 Fake Twitter Accounts By: Augustine Fou, August 2013 The Magnitude of Digital Ad Fraud By: Augustine Fou, November 2013 An Ecosystem of Digital Ad Fraud By: Augustine Fou, October 2013 - 61 - Augustine Fou
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