@RioLongacre@garicruze and confirmed, less than 50% of an advertiser's dollar goes to "working media" (showing digital ads) when they buy through the long, complex, and non-transparent programmatic supply chain
as long as the publishers don't source traffic and use Taboola/Outbrain everywhere, they don't have a bot problem because fraud bots are practical - they go to sites that pay them for traffic
I literally don't know what they are smoking to make this statement
“The trade in traffic hasn’t been eliminated, but it is substantially harder to buy fake traffic and it’s substantially more expensive to buy realistic-looking fake traffic that will actually get the buyer paid"