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New Report and Study: Fighting Mobile Fraud In the Programmatic Era

We are thrilled to release our latest report: Fighting Mobile Fraud In the Programmatic Era.

Today, ad fraud is a major issue for all parts of the digital ecosystem. In mobile in particular, the issue is prevalent due to relatively young age of the industry compared with the experience and the versatility of fraudsters. They often move from one platform to the next, once the safeguards and defense systems are too advanced and their activity becomes no longer lucrative.

Being a demand-side platform, we chose to focus on the type of fraud afflicting advertisers, namely publisher fraud. Our goal was to raise awareness about the issue, and show that, however advanced fraudulent techniques can get, there are many ways to fight back.

Read on to know more about mobile fraud…

How Mobile Gaming’s Lessons Can Benefit All App Marketers

According to eMarketer, by 2016 mobile internet is poised to overtake desktop and reach $100 billion in ad spending. Very few businesses can turn their eyes away from the success of mobile as a platform these days. Whether it’s e-commerce, dating, entertainment, or lifestyle, all verticals are coming to the conclusion that, if they haven’t yet started taking mobile seriously, it’s about time they did.

If the rise of mobile followed the classic platform patterns, its development was pushed by an unusual vertical in the history of content platforms: gaming. Gaming apps were, without doubt, the first truly successful category on mobile and, it’s fair to say, games pioneered the industry and showed the way forward for all other verticals. Today, if mobile games no longer command the highest rank in the top free charts, they still take the crown in matters of in-app app store monetization as they fill most of the top-grossing positions.

With the experience comes the wisdom and there’s a lot everyone can gain from game publishers’ experience on the app stores. Here are the top 3 items all app publishers can learn from mobile gaming.

How to Drive a 360 Degree App Marketing Strategy Through First-Party Data [Free Webinar]

On Tuesday, November 17 we’ll be hosting a webinar together with our partners Localytics on how to leverage first-party data for a full-circle app marketing strategy.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

– Best practices in user segmentation and first-party user data analysis
– How to leverage the data for better in-app engagement strategies
– How to utilize the data for more effective advertising campaigns

Why Mobile Programmatic Needs to Combine Art with Science

The way some tell it, performance marketing is well on its way to a completely automated and algorithm driven state, with no room (or necessity) for humans at all. This doomsayer approach to the advertising professional’s role in the future may be a contributing factor in the slow growth of programmatic. After all, who wants to support the technology that may eventually put them out of a job?

Why India Is the Promised Land of m-Commerce

In a country where most users access internet for the first time through a mobile device, this should come as no surprise and in India, mobile seems to be the way forward for e-Commerce companies. According to the Internet and Mobile Association of India, out of the 354 million internet users in India, 213 million are mobile. However it’s not just about the scale of users, but how far they have come in such a short time. The number of mobile users has indeed quadrupled since June 2012 in the sub-continent.

Here is why India is currently the Promised Land of m-Commerce.

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