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Bad Ads Took a Dip in Q3, Says Confiant; Bad Actors Be Forewarned

By Lynne d Johnson January 31, 2019

Bad ads are a pretty terrible thing for the entire ad ops ecosystem. By 2025 ad fraud—malvertising redirects and malicious IBV to name a few—will cost advertisers more than $50bn, accounting for 30% share of the overall digital market, so warned The World Federation of Advertisers back in 2016. But…

Spread of Bad Ads Pretty Terrible, Confiant Reports

By Gavin Dunaway October 02, 2018

In its eye-opening new report on ad quality , Confiant finds that 1 out of every 200 ad impressions from the open exchanges is malvertising. If 1 trillion ads are being served through the open marketplace monthly, Confiant estimates that 5 billion are malicious. Make sure you have smelling salts…