Is the ad fraud problem really getting better? New research suggests not
Ad fraud is a huge problem, but the past year has seen growing optimism that progress was being made in the fight against the industry’s biggest threat.
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) suggested that losses from ad fraud were going to drop from $7.2bn in 2016 to $6.5bn in 2017. What’s more, efforts to reduce common forms of ad fraud have gained traction. Perhaps most notably, the IAB Ads.txt standard, which aims to make spoofing much more difficult, is rapidly being adopted.