A bad day for bots is a big day for growth. Hunting ad fraud across $10m+ in spend and counting.

Austin, TX
Joined May 2023
Gotta respect the guys grinding out ad fraud on like OOH/Linear. No AI, just hand crafted human fraud. Living in the moment pure love of the game.
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Google is rolling out caps that let advertisers take Search partners and Display to 0%. Best effort, per Google support.google.com/google-ad… Andrew Barrow of @revenuearc, in our episode a day earlier, said to turn off all open networks
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IAB Tech Lab’s proposed rules want supply chains “known and testable” iabtechlab.com/standards/sup… Andrew Barrow of @revenuearc says his team went “site by site, app by app” through 50,000 in their PMPs.
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Andrew Barrow of @revenuearc grades fraud tools on your own numbers. Traffic and bounce rate both drop, performance goes up, or the tool is out and the next one gets a turn
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Citizen Lab connected targeted ads to zero click spyware, and Bill Marczak is asking ad companies to get “serious about customer vetting” Buyers already vet sellers that way, Andrew Barrow of @revenuearc explains how on our podcast. Full Episode: youtu.be/_0GJvYlV98o?si=ChiB…
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Agents “don’t respond to ads,” per Cloudflare, whose network saw daily AI agent requests grow more than 1,700% in a year The bots we chase respond to ads all day, because someone wrote that into the setup. Andrew Barrow of Revenue Arc on how
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“We’ll just sign over everything for terms and conditions.” Heather Physioc, Chief Discoverability Officer at VML. Last week the UK’s privacy regulator got 10 AI developers to make or commit to changes on how personal data trains their models.
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Many such cases.
📉 Bot traffic from Yandex’s network has dropped to almost zero after an attack on a data center in Vladimir. This is the third attack on Yandex’s data centers since October 8. Bot traffic is automatic requests to websites from programs — search crawlers, services, parsers.
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“I can say all the nice things about myself that I want.” Heather Physioc, Chief Discoverability Officer at VML, on our podcast about why credibility needs someone else to back it, and the marketing accounts running on fake followers.
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Browser security firm Island found fake AI ad tools wearing ChatGPT and Claude branding, built to steal media buyers’ ad account logins. VML’s Heather Physioc: “It just creates this illusion of rigor even when the evidence is actually weak.”
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Our latest episode has Heather Physioc, who runs discoverability at VML, on how junk sites keep showing up next to real stores. Vibe coded site, fake Reddit consensus, official look. "People are so sick of getting duped by AI."
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