The bad, the ugly, and the truth of mobile ad fraud

April 13, 2018

Ad fraud can decimate ad budgets, skew data, and create a feedback loop that’s a race to the bottom. On average, 4% of an app’s paid user acquisition budget is taken by fraud. We’ve seen outliers with up to 90% of budgets stolen - and our Fraud Prevention Suite has so far rejected 400,000 installs (not including 200,000 SDK signatures) - around $2m per day in saved budgets.

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As Australia’s #1 marketing services company, we’re here to engage consumers with Australian businesses. We make this happen through a number of leading brands - Yellow Pages, White Pages, TrueLocal, Whereis and Skip and our expert digital know-how. Our digital expertise is what sets us apart - we give businesses a competitive edge through websites, search engine marketing and optimisation, data, and through our digital advertising agency, Found.

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As Australia’s #1 marketing services company, we’re here to engage consumers with Australian businesses. We make this happen through a number of leading brands - Yellow Pages, White Pages, TrueLocal, Whereis and Skip and our expert digital know-how. Our digital expertise is what sets us apart - we give businesses a competitive edge through websites, search engine marketing and optimisation, data, and through our digital advertising agency, Found.

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