The ability to advertise on the Internet, and make money through the visitors that online advertising can send to your website is something that many people utilize every day. The thought that these companies are actually not providing the best possible service probably doesn't cross your mind.



If your conversions are low, you have been trained and brainwashed into believing that it must be something about your ad, the audience you are marketing to, or the products you are selling. We don't want to think that the very advertisers that we are paying thousands of dollars a month, or even a day, are actually unscrupulously swindling us out of our cash.

ANA is going to do a good service by doing this report because it will shed some light on various practices that are going on that aren't fair to buyers or people paying for ads. It's good to have an idea of what's going on when you work with advertisers so you're not paying them for false traffic and to lie to you. These consumer agencies are going to help to make sure that advertisers and other people in the industry stay honest. It's people that do this kind of work that make it very hard to hide any kind of fraud.

The Marketer's Coalition will bring together 30 advertisers from different industries such as financial, automotive, technology, travel, hospitality, consumer products etc. Then, the campaigns from each of these companies will be thoroughly assessed to identify areas where fraud occurs. The point at the end of the study is to give each one of the advertisers a detailed report that would contain the overall fraud rates, fraud according to platform i.e. mobile or desktop, channel, format - video or display as well as any other findings.

These individuals will continue to plague the online marketing industry until something is actually done to force them into accountability. Hopefully more of these studies will be done that will clearly show what is happening, and as a result, our ability to spend money on advertising will actually lead to higher profits and money that is actually being spent for the betterment of our company, not the pocketbook of the despicable advertising companies online.

In the end, this type of study is only going to produce results if people actually take this seriously, deciding to refine the way that their advertising is provided to consumers so that purported fraud does not continue. Hopefully, the practices that the perpetrators must adopt will inevitably lead to a fair and gainful way of providing advertising to clients who are expecting to get top results without being part of fraudulent schemes that are apparently running rampant today.