- Optimizing For AI Search By Following LLM, AI Signatures
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 5, 2025
Analysis from Aimclear reveals "a new cohort of crawlers associated with lar ...
- MRC Rebuts Sensational 'Fraud' Report, Says It Failed To Grasp How Brands Filter Ads Served To Bots
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, April 11, 2025
While the analysis focused on detecting bots when ads were served, t ...
- Lawmaker Seeks Probe Of Ad-Fraud Verification Firms
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 28, 2025
Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) is urging the FTC and DOJ to investiga ...
- AI Scavengers: Scraping Is Growing In Volume, Undermining Business For Publishers
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 3, 2025
Publishers are urged to be wary as scraping doubles in volume fr ...
- AI Driving Growth In Invalid Online Traffic, Email Spam
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 10, 2025
DoubleVerify's data shows 16% of GIVT from known-bot impressions in 2024 we ...
- Publishers, Beware: General Invalid Traffic Jumped By 86% In 2024
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 9, 2025
AI scrapers and crawlers contributed to the problem, DoubleVerify's Fraud Lab repo ...
- Meta Quietly Deletes AI Profiles After Public Backlash
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, January 6, 2025
After announcing its plan to roll out millions of generative AI characte ...
- Meta Adding Millions Of AI-Generated 'Users' To IG, Facebook
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 2, 2025
Meta's embrace of artificial intelligence may soon alter the way that billio ...
- The Big Coupon Cheat: Retailers Are Getting Ripped Off
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 10, 2024
There is a way to detect fraudulent emails and orders. ...
- Reddit Users Challenge Google, Sending Business Owners A Message
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Many small businesses find they can gain traction by treating Reddit ...
- DoubleVerify: Generative AI Driving 'Significant' Increase In Ad Fraud
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 17, 2024
DoubleVerify research reveals a surge in new fraud schemes and variants ...
- New Publicis 'BSBot' Ready To Call Out AI Hype
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, June 12, 2024
The company is arming clients with the new bot in time f ...
- Judge Sides Against Meta In Battle Over Scraping Public Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Analytics company Bright Data didn't violate Meta's terms of service by scrapi ...
- Polestar Launches Truth Bot To Debunk Climate Change Myths
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, November 27, 2023
The electric vehicle brand is launching the bot on X ahead ...
- Ad Spend Wasted On Invalid Traffic Could Reach $72B In 2024
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 27, 2023
LinkedIn had the highest IVT rate and YouTube the lowest, among channe ...
- OpenAI's Path Toward App Store, Ad Monetization
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 7, 2023
OpenAI's first developer conference debuted tools that allow anyone to create ...
- Is CAN-SPAM Toast? The Old Law Does Not Serve Our More Complicated Age
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, November 2, 2023
CAN-SPAM is less draconian than GDPR and what Gmail and Yahoo n ...
- Almost One Third Of Top News Sites Have Blocked AI Crawlers: Report
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 19, 2023
GPTBot has been blocked the most, with several leading sites not allowi ...
- Elon Musk May Put X Behind A Paywall
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, September 19, 2023
During a live-streamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monda ...
- Spam Guide Rails: A Refresher Following The Experian Settlement
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 21, 2023
Most CAN-SPAM violators are scam artists and malware senders. But even legitima ...
- Generative AI Bots Continue Spewing False Narratives, Audit Finds
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Months after benchmarking high rates of false narratives generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
- Man Bots Dog, Cats Too
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, August 2, 2023
The Ad Council this week breaks a national PSA campaign for anim ...
- DoubleVerify Extends Media Quality Authentication To Facebook, Instagram Reels
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, June 22, 2023
The expansion of third-party ad-fraud protection technology to Facebook and Instagram Ree ...
- Microsoft Hacked: Outlook Brought Down By Threat Actor Early In June
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 19, 2023
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity was perpetrated by Storm-1359, Microsoft writes. ...
- Cybersecurity Firm Sees Sophisticated Bot Surge Despite Reduced Internet Traffic
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 24, 2023
Cybersecurity company Human has released its 2023 Enterprise Bot Fraud Benchmark Repor ...
- Apple And App Developers Sued By Baidu Over Fake Ernie Bot Apps
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 10, 2023
Baidu has sued Apple and several app developers to stop the flo ...
- Super Bowl XLII Attracted Malicious Attacks Through Sports Bets
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 3, 2023
The popularity of sports betting and the frequent transfer of money mak ...
- Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure OpenAI Services, ChatGPT Coming Soon
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 17, 2023
The worldwide release is the result of the ongoing partnership with OpenA ...
- Everyone Should Be Calling 'Code Red' On ChatGPT
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, January 12, 2023
I just told all of our employees that from today forward, a ...
- Higher-Education Marketers Lose $94.6M In Annual Ad Spend To Invalid Paid Clicks
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 10, 2023
CHEQ examined the prevalence of fraud in higher-education marketing and found o ...