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Why Fraudulent Ad Networks Continue to Thrive

Harvard Business Review

At a medical device company, a brand manager was examining a chart of daily traffic to his website. For someone responsible for a website’s traffic, the scale and swiftness of the drop should have made him gasp, but the manager nodded knowingly. Marketing managers pay close attention to the “referrer.”

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7 Marketing Technologies Every Company Must Use

Harvard Business Review

And since you usually pay on a CPM basis, you get tons of free impressions. Like sales and product development and supply chain management and finance and any other important part of the company, it ultimately comes down to not just what you do but how well you do it. So it can be complicated.

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7 Marketing Technologies Every Company Must Use

Harvard Business Review

And since you usually pay on a CPM basis, you get tons of free impressions. Like sales and product development and supply chain management and finance and any other important part of the company, it ultimately comes down to not just what you do but how well you do it. So it can be complicated.