Facebook Ad Fraud Corroborated by Augustine Fou Ad Fraud Forensics
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Facebook ads have had its detractors for many years. This is the latest round of data that shows that even legit ads purchased directly from Facebook results in "page likes" by fake accounts, which are not only useless, but also may have long-term harmful effects.
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Fraud Corroborated
Dr. Augustine Fou
acfou [at] mktsci.com
http://linkd.in/augustinefou
February 2014
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- 1. Facebook Ad Fraud Corroborated Dr. Augustine Fou acfou [at] mktsci.com http://linkd.in/augustinefou February 2014 -1- Augustine Fou
- 2. First Hand Data Corroborates Veritasium -2- Augustine Fou
- 3. Set Up a Company Page https://www.facebook.com/marketingsc ienceconsulting -3- Augustine Fou
- 4. Page Like Ad Campaign -4- Augustine Fou
- 5. Fake Profiles Liked Me -5- Augustine Fou
- 6. How Do I Know? • No recent activity • Misspellings, made-up names “Jane Boston” • Random images used in updates (e.g. stock images, plaigiarized images) • No friends • Thousands of likes, of completely unrelated things • Porn related images (e.g. selfies) • All images are promotional (promote event) -6- Augustine Fou
- 7. Site Click Ad Campaign Average click through rate 0.042% -7- Augustine Fou
- 9. Fake Profiles on Facebook plagiarized or stock image -9- Augustine Fou
- 10. Fake Facebook Profiles - 10 - Augustine Fou
- 11. Bot generated pages on Facebook using many of the same images and randomized content - 11 - Augustine Fou
- 12. Fake Likes on Facebook How much do you like courgettes, the green vegetable Americans call zucchini? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button – even with dozens of other pages about courgettes to choose from. There's just one problem: the liking was fake, done by a team of low-paid workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, whose boss demanded just $15 per thousand "likes" at his "click farm". Workers punching the keys might be on a three-shift system, and be paid as little as $120 a year. Source: Business Insider, August 2, 2013 - 12 - Augustine Fou
- 13. The Problem Has Been Known For a While - 13 - Augustine Fou
- 14. February 10, 2014 Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag - 14 - Augustine Fou
- 15. BBC Reports Significant “Like” Fraud (2012) “These [fake accounts] all seemed to have an enormous number of Likes, with many totaling more than 10,000 and at a “Liking” rate of more than 500 a month.” Source: Search Engine Journal July 2012 - 15 - Augustine Fou
- 16. TechCrunch Reports Massive Facebook Click Fraud (2009) “Tracking 202 is telling me 11 clicks….Facebook is telling me 145. That’s way off .” “Tested on 3 different servers at 3 different DCs (not a network issue).” “FB click fraud update: ratio is now EXACTLY 10:1. 10 clicks reported on FB, 1 click on prosper.” Source: http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/21/facebook-click-fraud-enraging-advertisers/ - 16 - Augustine Fou
- 17. Facebook Display Ads Can Work for Branding (assuming they were viewed) - 17 - Augustine Fou
- 18. Facebook 7–9 Ads /pageview 2012 2011 2010 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Source: Facebook Display Ads | go-Digital Blog - 18 - Augustine Fou
- 19. Auto Refresh Ads Inflating ad impressions served Same page, but ads are auto-refreshed every 2 mins; 7 more ad impressions - 19 - Augustine Fou
- 20. Users ignore Facebook ads Source: Mashable, April 2012 - 20 - Augustine Fou
- 21. Eye tracking proves … “The ads to the right are only noticed by 23% of the respondents, and they spend only 0.5 seconds on the ads.” Source: Mashable 12/29/2011 … users don’t look at the ads. - 21 - Augustine Fou
- 22. What Advertisers Can/Should Do? - 22 - Augustine Fou
- 23. Areas of Optimization 1. Don’t just pay on a CPM basis for tonnage of impressions; if you have some other performance metric which measures actual actions that users take, use that instead 2. Pay on a CPC basis if you can, and use “conversion tracking” provided by Facebook on your page or website 3. Move beyond counting the number of likes and use some other metric that is more indicative of intent to purchase if possible. - 23 - Augustine Fou
- 24. Dr. Augustine Fou – Digital Consigliere “I advise clients on optimizing advertising across all channels. One main area of focus is reducing ad waste due to fraud – fake impressions, clicks, leads, and sales.” FORMER CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER, HCG (OMNICOM) MCKINSEY CONSULTANT CLIENT SIDE / AGENCY SIDE EXPERIENCE PROFESSOR AND COLUMNIST ENTREPRENEUR / SMALL BUSINESS OWNER PHD MATERIALS SCIENCE (MIT '95) AT AGE 23 ClickZ Articles: http://bit.ly/augustine-fou-clickz Slideshares: http://bit.ly/augustine-fou-slideshares LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/augustinefou - 24 - @acfou Augustine Fou
- 25. Related Articles Digital Ad Fraud Briefing By: Augustine Fou December 2013 Fake YouTube Videos By: Augustine Fou, December 2013 Ad Fraud Fighting Techniques By: Augustine Fou October 2013 Fake Linkedin Profiles By: Augustine Fou, December 2013 How Display Fraud Works By: Augustine Fou, May 2013 Fake Facebook Profiles By: Augustine Fou, Dec 2013 How Click Fraud Works By: Augustine Fou, November 2013 Fake Twitter Accounts By: Augustine Fou, August 2013 The Magnitude of Digital Ad Fraud By: Augustine Fou, November 2013 An Ecosystem of Digital Ad Fraud By: Augustine Fou, October 2013 - 25 - Augustine Fou