click fraud on mobile outed

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momchil9

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJAAqCZWA3I]Mobile Fraud Caught On Tape - Mobgold Take 1 - YouTube[/ame]

and it has been quite the discussion on the forum actually.

anyone here doing some volume on mobile? anything you have to share?
 


Yeah analytics on mobile aren't that advanced yet so they can get away screwing advertisers like this, and as evidenced by this video they choose to. What I don't understand; if they want reoccurring business(any sane ad network should) why would they choose to shaft these paying advertisers? Being unscrupulous and greedy might drive some profits in the short term but most serious advertisers will go to the outlets that don't choose to defraud their paying customers.

You can cut out non-performing ids and target specific pub ids on a few platforms but not on all. That doesn't mean they can't blend in fraud like this by spoofing the id from their url though. With the advancement of better mobile analytics this should be easier to spot as time goes on. Another level of analyzing the traffic would be real-time observation to instantly see if many of the clicks being delivered are trash ala something like ClickTale Brings Its Visitor Tracking Tools To The Mobile Web | TechCrunch
 
is this software self hosted... or are they just stealing all your campaigns for their mobile media buyer
 
it's self hosted of course, lol. But I think you can't really buy it now. They said they will sell only 250 copies of it initially, but it sounds like a marketing trick. Contact them.

@health2012, did you listen to the video? I mean you obviously watched it, but did you listened to the sounds when the guy was opening his mouth?
 
maybe, tried a bit of adult mobile, probably it needs whole diff approach than usual banners

I can only imagine it needs insanes CTR, but still low low low imps at all
 
seolinker said:
maybe, tried a bit of adult mobile, probably it needs whole diff approach than usual banners

I can only imagine it needs insanes CTR, but still low low low imps at all
Click to expand...

Well there you go. Adult anything is a saturated market and you're competing with millions of webmasters already offering free content. It's stupid to judge mobile ads by the profits in porn. I think you have much to learn, even with a high post count.
 
Lol@guy running bullshit iPad offer complaining about fraud

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