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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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Trade Bodies Answer Call to Define ‘Made for Advertising’

VideoWeek

They typically use sensational headlines, clickbait a nd provocative content to generate page views, which in turn generate ad revenue for the site owner. As noted in the characteristics, pop-up ads, auto-play videos and intrusive ads are placed around low-quality content to maximise ad revenue.

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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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6 Questions About Made-For-Advertising Websites

Basis

If you’ve ever clicked on a link like this, you’ve likely found yourself transported to a digital space that looks more like a carnival midway ride than a normal website: ads flashing, inventory refreshing, and call-to-action buttons leading you to other websites with even more pop-up ads. It starts with a clickbait headline.

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5 Social Media Advertising Trends | 2021

Banner Flow

For instance, cybersecurity company Akamai has reported a staggering increase in global internet traffic of up to 30 per cent. Instagram Stories and Snapchat have become so popular that Facebook even snapped up the Stories format for their homepage feed. How TikTok has shaken up the market. The continued growth of video formats.

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AI is Driving the Proliferation of Made for Advertising Websites

VideoWeek

The industry is looking to fix this; there is talk among trade bodies about working to formulate a definition, and the ANA is conducting a follow-up study where MFA will be more clearly defined. Therefore clickbait is not necessarily MFA, as long as it is actively serving a community or deployed alongside actual news.

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Beyond the Blog Post: 21 Inspirational Branded Content Examples

Single Grain

These days, people want something of value to help them make up their own minds rather than simply being sold a solution (crazy concept, huh?). To the company’s surprise: They ended up ranking #1 for their chosen keyword (even today the mini-site is still in the top five). The results ? HootSuite is a social media management tool.

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