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Stop Wasting Your Ad Spend On Made-For-Advertising Publishers

AdExchanger

MFA is a combination of paid traffic, clickbait and other incentivized traffic, engineered to create ad impressions and generate revenue. New sites pop up virtually overnight with millions of impressions, sucking up ad dollars and hurting campaign performance, writes Tal Almany, VP of publisher development at Kargo.

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Houston, We Have a Problem: Malvertising Is a Threat to Our Livelihood

Ad Monsters

Everyday consumers, particularly older Americans, are lured into social engineering scams via clickbait ads promising the secrets of investing, malicious redirects warning that their computers have been hacked, or some other scam. He too clicked on a clickbait ad and talked to scammers who persuaded him to install AnyDesk on his computer.

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6 Questions About Made-For-Advertising Websites

Basis

If you’ve ever clicked on a link like this, you’ve likely found yourself transported to a digital space that looks more like a carnival midway ride than a normal website: ads flashing, inventory refreshing, and call-to-action buttons leading you to other websites with even more pop-up ads. It starts with a clickbait headline.

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AI is Driving the Proliferation of Made for Advertising Websites

VideoWeek

The industry is looking to fix this; there is talk among trade bodies about working to formulate a definition, and the ANA is conducting a follow-up study where MFA will be more clearly defined. Therefore clickbait is not necessarily MFA, as long as it is actively serving a community or deployed alongside actual news.

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How to create a push ad campaign that works well

Lemonads

Whenever the user is browsing, they will get a small pop-up at the top of their screen asking them if they’d like to allow push notifications. If they don’t then the pop-up disappears and that’s it. It doesn’t even disrupt the user experience as it’s not a huge in-your-face pop-up. Don’t use Clickbait.

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5 Social Media Advertising Trends | 2021

Banner Flow

For instance, cybersecurity company Akamai has reported a staggering increase in global internet traffic of up to 30 per cent. Instagram Stories and Snapchat have become so popular that Facebook even snapped up the Stories format for their homepage feed. How TikTok has shaken up the market. The continued growth of video formats.

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The WIR: Vice to Shutter Website, Google Expands GenAI in Performance Max, and FuboTV Sues Sports Streaming JV

VideoWeek

However Gemini’s image generation capabilities came under scrutiny this week, after examples popped up on social media of the AI model creating images with odd, historically inaccurate racial diversity. Walmart Ramps Up Ads Business with $2.3 Read more on VideoWeek. The agreement sees Walmart pay $11.50 per share in cash.

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