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Sharing with you all today a list of 19 sites used to launder traffic for lectormanga[.]com (11.2M estimated monthly visits, per Similar Web) & lectortmo[.]com (over 50M monthly visits estimated!!)
Example video: youtu.be/arneqj1FIfk
Reports by PWC and @AdalyticsHQ found that only 50% of the money spent by advertisers ended up with publishers with the rest going to ad-tech fees. In some cases, as high as 98% of the advertising spend was on these ad-tech fees.
trends.spiny.ai/ad-tech-fees/
"The study found that for half of ad impressions, middlemen’s fees range from 22% to 45%, with an average of 35%."
Great read from @catherineperlo1 featuring detailed research from @AdalyticsHQ.
adweek.com/programmatic/a…
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Who produces more valuable content - a news site w/ war journalists deployed in Kiev, or a clickbait site about "24 unbelievable UFOs"?
New data shows some adtech vendors provide more favorable rates to clickbait sites than to trusted news outlets: adalytics.io/blog/adtech-su…
Interesting to note that @TheTradeDesk's new Open Path direct-to-publisher header bidding wrapper has pretty low average response times (good network latency).
Some other wrappers have avg resp times > 1000ms.
Curious what are the possible implications for publishers?
Continuing this series to better inform antitrust, privacy, internet policy advocates re: digital ads biz. Pt 2 shows how ad platforms confuse/rip off small biz advertisers w/confusing defaults. What Antitrust Gets Wrong About Digital Advertising Pt. 2 bit.ly/37GaMot
Checkout the new Adalytics Ad Frequency Observatory - see which brands & advertisers are serving their ads more than 20x times a day to individual consumers
adalytics.io/ad-frequency-o…
How much does it cost for brands such as Nike, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson to buy a programmatic display ad?
How much are they paying to publishers such as WSJ, NYT, or a Vietnamese cooking blog run by a mom of two?
adalytics.io/blog/cpm-bid-d…
Did you see the Wrapper Newsletter this week?
1/ Targeted Ads Miss the Mark, Study Says
2/ CA AG Says GPC Must Be Honored By All
3/ Big Brands Acquiring Ad Tech at Lightning Speed
4/ IBM Watson Wants to Use AI to Uncover and Reduce Bias in Advertising admonsters.com/eletters/does-…
I crowd-sourced ad bids from 3,627 advertisers across 368 websites to answer the questions: "How much are advertisers paying per ad slot? How much are publishers receiving per ad impression?"
Here are are some takeaways:
adalytics.io/blog/cpm-bid-d…
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