Facebook’s team fighting ad fraud has grown significantly.
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Ad fraud is often described as a cat-and-mouse game, with networks’ best efforts at detection a few short steps behind bad actors’ best efforts at defrauding customers and advertisers without getting caught. (And those mice are eating a lot of cheese. Last year, the ad verification company Adloox predicted ad fraud could cost advertisers $16.4 billion in 2017—or about 20.5 percent of total global digital ad spend.)
This story first appeared in the March 5, 2018, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.
