BERLIN, GERMANY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA and SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA--(Marketwired - Jun 28, 2017) - AppLift, a leading mobile advertising technology company, today released the study, "Mobile Advertising Fraud: The Next Battlegrounds," revealing international fraud distribution data. The e-book is a follow-on report to the company's 2015 fraud study that uncovers new statistics about mobile fraud, evaluates the current challenges in the space, and the recent evolution of mobile fraud. The report also illustrates key heuristics to detect and prevent fraud and provides guidance for designing and executing on fraud-fighting measures for the entire industry.
According to Business Insider, the amount of global ad revenue wasted on fraudulent traffic could reach $16.4 billion in 2017, making it understandable that 78% of marketers are concerned with ad fraud and bot traffic. AppLift conducted a twelve-week study and found that India and Indonesia have the highest amount of fraud with 31.29 percent and 21.23 percent, respectively. AppLift also found that certain app categories are more susceptible to fraud than others, with entertainment apps and news apps seeing the most fraud traffic.
"As a leader in the mobile ad space, we firmly believe it is our responsibility to not only focus our efforts on detecting and fighting ad fraud, but to also share our learnings with industry peers so that we can all better understand the risks and fight fraud together," said Tim Koschella, CEO of AppLift. "As exemplified by the findings in this report, our fraud detection team meticulously studies each campaign for fraud risks to help advertisers make the most of their spend and gain high-quality users."
Findings include:
- Countries with the most amount of impression fraud on RTB
- India: 31.29%
- Indonesia: 21.23%
- Singapore: 18.18%
- Countries with the least amount of impression fraud on RTB
- Hong Kong: 4.13%
- South Korea: 5.48%
- Germany: 6.23%
- App Categories with the most fraudulent activity
- Entertainment: 22%
- News: 22%
- Education: 21%
- App Categories with the least fraudulent activity
- Parenting: 2%
- Shopping: 3%
- Travel: 7%
- Most prevalent types of fraud in 2017 -- More complex and sophisticated types of fraud have evolved that occur along the click and install/post-install levels: Ad Stacking, Click Injection and Click Stuffing being some of the most prevalent and damaging manifestations of fraud that the industry is facing today.
"The cost of advertising plays a significant role in mobile marketers' budgets," said CEO and Co-founder of AppLift, Tim Koschella. "The rise in fraudulent activity not only undermines the integrity of the advertising industry, but is extremely costly for advertisers. AppLift's sophisticated pattern-detection technology helps marketers to better understand, detect and fight fraud at every level, and therefore, salvage a significant portion of their ad spend."
AppLift's report identifies that ad exchanges, publishers and attribution partners now have a bigger role than ever to play in mitigating fraud. To view the entire report, "Mobile Advertising Fraud: The Next Battlegrounds," visit: http://insights.applift.com/mobile-fraud-ebook/.
About AppLift
AppLift is a data-driven technology company that empowers mobile app advertisers to acquire and re-engage quality users at scale on a performance basis. AppLift's programmatic media buying platform DataLift 360 provides access to all automated supply sources in the market, reaching over a billion users per month. The technology leverages first- and third-party data to optimize media buys across all stages of the conversion funnel and, through its proprietary LTV-optimization technology, enables ROI-maximized user acquisition. AppLift works with 500+ leading global advertisers across all verticals, such as King, Zynga, OLX, Glu Mobile, Myntra, Paltalk, Nexon and Tap4Fun.
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