Cyber security protection needn’t be a daunting challenge for any business but it’s certainly one all should be getting to grips with.
The recent exposure of vulnerabilities at the BBC, British Airways, Aer Lingus, Boots the Chemist, and others demonstrated that even the largest organisations can still become victims of cyber crime.
Fraud is killing your digital marketing campaigns. It’s a bold statement to make but it’s fully justified by recent industry events which have highlighted failings and exposed weaknesses. And it’s affecting big business.
When Uber turned off two-thirds of their annual advertising budget – around $100m – you could be forgiven for thinking there would be consequences to their actions.
But, because of ad fraud, attribution fraud in particular, the ride-share company found basically no change in the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
Digital ad fraud is more than just lost revenue. It can affect your brand reputation if your adverts appear alongside problematic content.
Not monitoring your online advertising could mean your brand is inadvertently helping human traffickers, terrorists or being associated with other criminal activity.
So What Are Bot Clicks? At its simplest, a bot click is when a script or software program using an auto bot commands information from a website link in the same way a human clicking on a link with their mouse would do.
Anyone working in digital marketing knows that click bots are one of the biggest issues facing the industry when it comes to lost revenue. We have been developing Veracity, the digital marketing intelligence dashboard, for a few years now. It began as a tool to help digital marketing agencies (and ourselves – a team of […]
To those of you who managed to make it along to our Leeds Digital Festival event on Wednesday 24th April, thank you! We appreciate your support and interest and hope that this follow on blog will be useful for you to get some of the detail you may have missed in the heat of the […]
