Wednesday, 6 August 2014

ANA Has Launched A Study On Bot Fraud From Advertisers

By Josiah Bashir


The ability to advertise on the Internet, and make money through the visitors that online advertising can send to your website is something that many people utilize every day. The thought that these companies are actually not providing the best possible service probably doesn't cross your mind.



If your conversions are low, you have been trained and brainwashed into believing that it must be something about your ad, the audience you are marketing to, or the products you are selling. We don't want to think that the very advertisers that we are paying thousands of dollars a month, or even a day, are actually unscrupulously swindling us out of our cash.

As you can see, bot fraud costs companies millions and even billions of dollars every year. As a result, marketers need to become more responsible and aware of this issue and take responsibility for helping to identify solutions.

So what can you do now that you know about this report? Is there anything that can be done to hold these people accountable? Odds are, the increasing amounts of digital advertising will continue to grow. People will always advertise online, and hope that they will get the best possible deals. Unfortunately, as the study has shown, thus not always going to be the case.

These individuals will continue to plague the online marketing industry until something is actually done to force them into accountability. Hopefully more of these studies will be done that will clearly show what is happening, and as a result, our ability to spend money on advertising will actually lead to higher profits and money that is actually being spent for the betterment of our company, not the pocketbook of the despicable advertising companies online.

It is the hope of the ANA, otherwise known as the Association of national advertisers, that after doing this month-long study on 30 different advertisers, there is the possibility that this type of behavior will diminish. It's sad to say that some of the most recognizable brands are actually involved in this type of behavior, recommending that action be taken prior to October before it continues to get worse. In an attempt to minimize fraud, this joint effort has provided this information on a public level, hoping to make sure that these companies will be held accountable for what they have done.




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