Report: Bots Make Up Nearly 60% of Online Traffic
While the percentage of bad bot traffic is down, click fraud impressions are a major concern for both advertisers and web users.
For several years, there has been a big conversation about the number of bots online. While making the distinction between benign and malicious bots can be important, each type has an impact on the digital ad space. A new survey from Distil Networks examines how bot-based ad fraud harms the industry.
Illegitimate traffic–i.e., traffic that doesn’t come from human users–comes in many forms. Everything from hijacked devices, data-center traffic, web page pre-loading and adware all contribute to wasted ad dollars as ads are served fruitlessly.
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