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Reading Time: 3 minutes This month, we are gearing up for some big mobile ad fraud protection changes to come, so stay tuned. However, like the good little engine that could, […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes There are many different types of mobile ad fraud, in this ever-changing dystopian ecosystem. According to our fraud experts, we expect ad fraud in 2020 to become […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Reality TV, one of my favorite pleasures. Not a ‘guilty’ kind of pleasure, but a normal kind (I try to not subscribe to the notion of ‘guilty […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes If you’re wondering what IP quality is, chances are you come from either India, USA or the UK, as these are the regions that rank highest on […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Let’s not waste any time. 2020 is approaching fast, and we’ve learned, predicted, experimented and developed a lot in 2019. You heard it here first, our 2020 […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes It has been a big month for this mobile ad fraud solution SaaS company. We have conducted customer interviews, found new areas to tweak, and perfected, perfected, […]

Reading Time: 10 minutes The world of digital and mobile ad fraud is a complex one, living within the dynamic and multifaceted digital advertising ecosystem. Naturally, it’s spawned a variety of […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes CTIT is a buzzword that is gaining interest in the community of marketing and advertising professionals globally. But what exactly is CTIT (click-to-install-time) and how it is […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Millions of app downloads and app sessions. Countless mobile ad campaigns. This is just some of the data we analyzed to form our 2018 and 2019 ad […]

Reading Time: 10 minutes The only guide to ad fraud you’ll ever need. Understand what is ad fraud, the different ad fraud types and how to tackle it.  Ad fraud is […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes With the proliferation of eCommerce businesses, it can be hard to stand out and keep customers on your product pages. For mobile pages especially, UX expectations runs […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Invalid traffic is defined as traffic that is not generated from a real user or from genuine interest. Fake traffic might be another way to conceptualize it. […]

Reading Time: 9 minutes Exactly how does one make it in today’s competitive and ever-changing business landscape?  The world is more connected, accessible and idea-saturated than ever before. Possibilities seem infinite, […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Non-human or bot traffic is awesome. If you’re a fraudster. Armed with basic tools, such as an amateur understanding of various programming languages, perhaps a small rinky-dink […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes One student, studying in Hanoi, Vietnam, was recently discovered to be behind 42 malicious adware apps, that were on Google Play and were downloaded by millions. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute By now, you’ve probably heard about ad fraud, and you probably have even learned about ad fraud from us, but what is Interceptd? Get to know some […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes What a better time to compare video ads vs image ads? This year marks the first time in history that digital advertising spend surpasses television in the […]

Reading Time: 10 minutes Jennifer Burrington, our Global VP of Sales, spoke at App Promotion Summit London 2019 about “How to identify and defend against mobile and app ad fraud. If […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently Mehmet Bilgin, the CTO of Interceptd presented at MGS Europe in Berlin. His keynote speech, entitled “Is Your Data Lying to You” questions the business and […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes OCTOBER PRODUCT UPDATES: We are the leading ad fraud solutions provider in this growing $5.8 billion industry. As such, we are expanding too. Join our upward trajectory, marked […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes 2.7 million. That is the number of people living in Chicago, the number of Netflix’s new paid subscribers in Q2, 2019, the cost of one massive blue-fin […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Grab yourself some popcorn and buckle up, because today, you’re going to learn about click-hijacking. Spoiler alert: click hijacking is like a race, where the last person […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday we had the pleasure to be invited by AWS for a keynote speech at their pop-up loft – Startup Day in Istanbul, and who better to […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes SEPTEMBER PRODUCT UPDATES: We are the leading provider of ad fraud solutions in this growing $5.8 billion industry. As such, we are expanding too. Join our upward […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Vegemite – dark, salty, fudgy, spreadable and most importantly, it is delicious. This salty paste is actually a byproduct of the manufacturing of beer from leftover brewers […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps you know that mobile ad fraud is a problem. Perhaps you think it doesn’t affect your ad campaigns (like 3/5 marketers surveyed, that say that their […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Online advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry. It is estimated that digital ads will be responsible for more than half—52%—of global ad spend in 2021, according to a […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Let us get a few buzzwords out of the way: mobile attribution, attribution provider, MMP, attribution network – these all the same, or closely related. You may […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes We live in a society that is measured in KPIs, numbers and quantitative data. Phones are quickly replaced by the next-gen model. Over 300,000 tonnes of clothes […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is an App Fraud Health Assessment? To promote awareness into this global costly phenomenon known as mobile ad fraud, we are offering a previously paid feature […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes 64% of marketers said they’re “not familiar” with ad fraud – from which half of these respondents (49%) identified as having 10+ years of digital marketing experience. […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes You may have heard of “click fraud”, or perhaps might be aware of the two most common forms of “click fraud” – click injection and click spamming. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly ten-million users unknowingly downloaded fraudulent ad malware apps on Google Play, touted as game and photography apps. A total of 85 fraudulent apps have been identified […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Facebook has sued two app developers for click injection fraud. Facebook alleges that the developers made Google Play apps that when downloaded, installed malware on the user’s […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes SDK Spoofing is the future of ad fraud. It is on the rise and accounts for a large portion of ad fraud committed. However, it is detectable. […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes The existence of mobile ad fraud traffic in the app business is undeniable. Therefore, mobile marketers now need to take this into account when activating their user […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes In principle, user acquisition (UA) managers have a simple aim: gain more money from the new users, than the money spent to acquire them. In other words, […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes When we are talking about ad fraud, it is mostly perceived as any unreal activity (like bots and farms), and a more dangerous way of committing ad […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes As the share of mobile advertising boosting rapidly, the fraudulent activity in the platform is continuously growing along with it. There are dozens of fraud types committed […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes You are being punished, instead of the fraudster Maybe you use a fraud tool and/or maybe you have internally developed a notably sophisticated fraud detection mechanisms that […]