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Stop Wasting Your Ad Spend On Made-For-Advertising Publishers

AdExchanger

MFA: Made-for-advertising content. MFA is a combination of paid traffic, clickbait and other incentivized traffic, engineered to create ad impressions and generate revenue. The post Stop Wasting Your Ad Spend On Made-For-Advertising Publishers appeared first on AdExchanger.

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How publishers are fighting clickbait ads and protecting audiences

Digiday

As a result, clickbait, offensive and misleading ads are on the rise, finding their way onto publishers’ sites, directly impacting the reader experience and ultimately hurting revenue. “Users no longer tolerate sketchy offers or scams pushed by clickbait ads,” he said.

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6 Questions About Made-For-Advertising Websites

Basis

These digital spaces are called made-for-advertising sites (MFAs), and a recent study found that brands spend about 15% of their programmatic ad budgets on them. But do MFAs help advertisers reach their business goals, or are they simply generating revenue for the people who build and manage them? It starts with a clickbait headline.

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

Ad Monsters

From 2022 to 2023, his company monitored and analyzed billions of live advertising impressions across premium websites, apps, and SSPs to assess the overall ad quality in today’s digital ecosystem. Additionally, now that some SSPs are loosening their tight grip on advertisers, it’s easier to enter the market with new scams and tactics.

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Trade Bodies Answer Call to Define ‘Made for Advertising’

VideoWeek

A consortium of trade groups has published a definition of ‘Made for Advertising’ (MFA) websites, bringing a standardised set of characteristics to a contentious topic in the industry. The consortium includes the ANA, the 4A’s, the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA).

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

Single Grain

The digital advertising landscape has faced some drastic changes in the past decade. million people worldwide using ad blockers to avoid traditional display advertising, marketers have shifted their budgets to new advertising channels. What Is Native Advertising? Book My Free Native Advertising Consultation .

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Caught between resignation and resistance, ad industry grapples with the prevalence of ‘made-for-advertising’ sites

Digiday

A recent study from Ebiquity found that advertisers are spending roughly a tenth of their budgets on clickbait sites. The real surprise is that there seems to be a growing resignation that these clickbait sites are going to siphon even more money away from respected publishers. Nothing new there. In the U.S.,