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Why Fraudulent Ad Networks Continue to Thrive

Harvard Business Review

In the display advertising world, advertisers pay by thousands of ad impressions, denoted CPM (cost per thousand). At an average CPM of $1, this budget buys 100 million ad impressions. cents per thousand impressions to implement the scam on reputable cloud services, and even less on lower echelon ones. million per month.

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