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that brands spent on influencer marketing in 2018, $102 million was wasted on fake followers.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlFake Followers Eating Into Brands' Influencer Marketing Budgets 02/11/2019 - 0 views
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Last year, a quarter of the cash that Unilever's Dove brand spent on influencer marketing went to fake followers -- compared to 14% for the typical advertiser -- despite the fact that Keith Weed, Unilever's chief marketing officer, said the company would no longer partner with influencers who purchased followers or used bots last year.
Most Americans say they can't distinguish a social media bot from a human - The Verge - 1 views
SparkToro's New Tool to Uncover Real vs. Fake Followers on Twitter | SparkToro - 0 views
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Today, we’re releasing a new free tool to help anyone discover what percent of an any Twitter account’s followers are fake vs. real: The Fake Followers Audit.
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The tool is designed to estimate the percentage of a given account’s followers that fit one or more of the following buckets: Spam accounts (those that purely send spam tweets) Bot accounts (those that have no real human actively operating them) Propaganda accounts (those designed to propagate dis/misinformation) Inactive accounts (those that no longer use Twitter or see tweets)
Facebook hints at big changes coming to Messenger app in 2018 - 0 views
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Facebook will focus on improving visual features in Messenger. In his post, Marcus says “people will expect a super fast and intuitive camera, video, images, GIFs, and stickers with almost every conversation.”
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Messenger bet big on bots in 2017. Last year the company worked with small businesses and global brands to create more than 200,000 bots for Messenger. Marcus writes, “Look for investment in rich messaging experiences not only from global brands, but small businesses who need to be creative and nimble to stay competitive.” Since many of these bots provide very rudimentary features, we would expect to see improvements in overall user experience this year. We also expect larger brands to follow the lead of brands like Apple Music and Lego in creating marketing solutions made for the Messenger platform.
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Expect to see more businesses transitioning at least some of their customer service resources to Messenger. A recent study, commissioned by Facebook found that “56 percent of people surveyed would rather message a business than call customer service, and 67 percent expect to message businesses even more over the next two years.”
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Addressing Invalid Non-Human Traffic - Craig Jaffe Research 360°Leadership in Research & Analytics - 0 views
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Your ad campaign: digital ad fraud artificially drives up your campaign's audiences by 5% to 50%.Your money: if you advertise on digital, your company and others are collectively expected to be cheated out of more than $6 billion this year in 2015.The sites you buy: fraud impacts a wide variety of areas on the internet, including major sites such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others.Your units: all types of advertising are affected, such as digital video and display.The way you buy: programmatic can be problematic, even when inventory is obtained from trusted sources.
Three Ways Advertisers Can Avoid Click Fraud - 1 views
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The study by Trademob said 40% of all clicks were either fraudulent clicks by publishers and bots looking to boost ad revenue or accidental clicks. Combined, the fraudulent and accidental clicks had conversion rates of less than 0.01%, making them essentially worthless to advertisers.
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