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You Are Not Immune: Take Our Publishers’ State of Clickbait Survey

Ad Monsters

Clickbait ads and scams are a persistent scourge of the online publishing world, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to encourage people to install ad blocking software as a means of protection. No site, it seems, is immune, with clickbait ads appearing on even the most discerning properties. Take the Survey Now!

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How Malvertising Shapes Behavior and Threatens An Industry: A Q&A with Yuval Shiboli, GeoEdge

Ad Monsters

The volume of scams is up 30% over 2021 and is 70% higher than it was in 2020. The results show that scammers changed tactics around 2020, shifting from using auto-redirects to lure users to malicious domains, to relying on clickbait ads to take them to these destinations. In February, the FTC reported that U.S. consumers lost $8.8

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Houston, We Have a Problem: Malvertising Is a Threat to Our Livelihood

Ad Monsters

Everyday consumers, particularly older Americans, are lured into social engineering scams via clickbait ads promising the secrets of investing, malicious redirects warning that their computers have been hacked, or some other scam. He too clicked on a clickbait ad and talked to scammers who persuaded him to install AnyDesk on his computer.

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How to Scale Your E-commerce Traffic Acquisition with Native Advertising

Single Grain

Related Content: * 54 Alternative Ad Networks to Open Up New Channels of Growth in 2021 * Google Privacy Sandbox: What's It Mean for the Future of Targeted Ads? Check the network's compliance in case you plan to use clickbait. You will have to adapt your budget to factor in this point when you get to step #3. Final Thoughts.

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The WIR: Snap Sees Slowing Ad Demand, BT’s Sports Project with WarnerBros Discovery gets the Green Light, and IPA Bellwether shows Stagnant Ad Budgets

VideoWeek

In 2021 the CMA made the unprecedented move of ordering Meta to unwind its takeover of the GIF search engine. Report Shows Advertisers Spending Up to 10 Percent of Budgets on Clickbait. Advertisers are spending around 10 percent of their budgets on clickbait sites, according to research by DeepSee, Jounce Media and Ebiquity.

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From Unboxings to Listicles: 21 Video Content Types That Convert

Single Grain

IGN is one of the channels that has dominated the gaming sphere: They create different types of video content in the gaming sphere, such as news, reviews, clickbait, and playthroughs. It should be no surprise that players consume gaming content, specifically videos. Look at this Resident Evil 4L Separate Ways Original vs Remake Comparison.

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The WIR: Vice to Shutter Website, Google Expands GenAI in Performance Max, and FuboTV Sues Sports Streaming JV

VideoWeek

The partnership helps advertisers direct spend towards quality news journalism, and screen out AI-generated or clickbait websites. The Trade Desk believes in the power of trusted journalism and the role of advertising in funding it,” said The Trade Desk CSO Samantha Jacobson. “We

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