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Forensic Auditing of Digital Media.pdf
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Forensic Auditing
of Digital Media
April 2022
Augustine Fou, PhD.
acfou@mktsci.com
TM
“see fou yourself
®
” with FouAnalytics
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Quantities Purchased
• Most marketers pay on bids won
• Compare the reports on bids won (DSP report) to the
reports on ads served (Ad Server report) to see drop-offs
• Compare ads served to ads displayed on screen
(FouAnalytics tag is required)
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Drop-offs: bids won, ads served
You paid for the bids won; did the ads serve? Did you get the right amount?
814,433
548,509 546,225
-33%
bids
won
ads
served
ads
displayed
DSP
report
ad server
report
FouAnalytics
in-ad data
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Drop-offs: bids won, ads served
You paid for the bids won; did the ads serve? Did you get the right amount?
1 million
931,000
745,514
-25%
bids
won ads
served ads
displayed
DSP
report
ad server
report
FouAnalytics
in-ad data
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Basic Accuracy of Delivery
• Did the ads deliver in the right country, region, that was
specified in the campaign set up?
• Did the right sizes of ads get served?
• Were frequency caps enforced?
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Basic Accuracy
• Leakage to other
countries
• Add negative targeting
• Standard ad sizes seen
• Errors and non-
standard sizes seen
• Frequency caps not
enforced in some
cases
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Where/When Did Ads Serve
• When did the ads serve? If you don’t have hourly data you
can’t see that most of your ads were used up between
midnight and 4a
• Set day-parting to prevent waste overnight
• What was your “reach”? How many sites did your ads go
to? Did you achieve the reach you thought you would get?
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When did the ads serve?
• Ads served right after
midnight
• Most ad impressions
used up before 4am
• Ads served right after
midnight
• Ads went to large
variety of bad apps
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How many sites did ads reach?
97 domains 133 domains
175 domains 182 domains
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How many sites did ads reach?
22 domains 23 domains
6 domains 47 domains
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Super high win rates
• Normal “win rates”
(impressions won /
bids) are in the 10%
range
• Super high win rates
are a sign of fraudulent
site or app
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Quality of the ads
• Were the ads served on good sites (good contexts)?
• Were ads served to humans or bots?
• Were ads viewable (opportunity to be seen)?
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Ads served to lotto, casino
Ads served to
highly suspicious
casino, gambling,
crime, lotto,
scratch off mobile
apps
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Ads served to bots, no data
• Bots and other
fraud are marked
dark red
• White means not measurable or no
data (do you still want to buy that?)
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Were ads viewable?
• Viewable means the ad was in the
visible portion of the browser
• Viewable-MRC means viewable,
plus 1 second requirement