"When you bundle bots,
clicks fraud, viewability and the lack of transparency [in automated ad
buying], the total digital-media value equation is being questioned and
totally challenged," warns one advertising group executive as the
WSJ reports about
36% of all Web traffic is considered fake,
the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit
sites. This means, simply put, that marketers, who are pouring billion
of dollars into online advertising, are confronting an uncomfortable
reality: rampant fraud...
and the fraud is only going to get worse...