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

AdExchanger

MFA is a combination of paid traffic, clickbait and other incentivized traffic, engineered to create ad impressions and generate revenue. New sites pop up virtually overnight with millions of impressions, sucking up ad dollars and hurting campaign performance, writes Tal Almany, VP of publisher development at Kargo.

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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. AdMonsters: Of all the impressions that are filled with ads, what percentage of those ads are scams or malicious?

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No Longer a Novelty, Attention Metrics are Now Fully Ingrained in Agencies’ Planning and Measurement

VideoWeek

After all, marketers aren’t really interested in how many impressions were delivered, but how many impressions actually left an impression. Viewability seeks to refine this further – taking total reach, and discounting any impressions where you can confidently say the ad was essentially ignored. .

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Trade Bodies Answer Call to Define ‘Made for Advertising’

VideoWeek

The release responds to calls from brands and agencies to clearly define MFA, after the Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) found that 15 percent of programmatic ad spend goes to MFA sites, representing 21 percent of total impressions. Buying paid traffic is the primary cost driver of operating an MFA business.

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11 Proven Hacks to Increase Your Organic CTRs ??

Single Grain

These days, many power words like these are perceived as clickbait and, as a result, receive 13.9% Don't resort to clickbait or your bounce rate will be through the roof! In Google Search Console, however, you might notice that the query receiving the highest impression count is “video engagement.”. less clicks : Question?

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Conquering Ad Fraud: Top 5 Initiatives that May Help Digital Marketers

Smarty Ads

We are living in a time of great turbulence caused by fake news, clickbait titles and, a rising phenomenon that has made a lot of noise recently, ad fraud. Even though a lot of efforts have been put into ad fraud detection, the number of fraudulent impressions stays.