New Fraudwall CEO Takes on Web Ads

  • January 24, 2010
    In Clicks on Ads, the Sound of Fraud
    By Alex Mindlin

    New York Times
    In 2009, when an online ad was clicked by a computer in Vietnam, the odds were nearly even that the click was fraudulent…

  • January 21, 2010
    Click Fraud Gets More Elaborate with ‘Real’ Purchases
    By Anonymous

    Marketing Vox
    A Harvard Business School professor has identified a new breed of click fraud that not only simulates clicks on a Google ad - but also seemingly generates a ‘real’ customer purchase…

  • January 20, 2010
    The Year And Holidays In Click Fraud
    By Gavin Dunaway

    Adotas
    Two new reports out suggest that click fraud is still rampant; however, one company saw a surprisingly low percentage over the normally flagrant holiday…

  • January 20, 2010
    Click Fraud Increases in Q4 2009
    By Nathania Johnson

    SearchEngineWatch.com
    Both Anchor Intelligence and Click Forensics released their quarterly click fraud reports this week. Each report showed the click fraud…

  • January 20, 2010
    Click fraud rate soared in fourth quarter
    By Anonymous

    Ecommerce Journal
    According to a new report from Anchor Intelligence, click fraud rate surged during the fourth quarter of 2009. Thus, it was…

  • January 20, 2010
    Every Fourth Click
    By John Ebbert

    AdExchanger
    In “Anchor Intelligence Traffic Quality Report: 2009 Year in Review”, AI says that click fraud jumped to 25.7% in Q4…

  • January 19, 2010
    2010 Search Predictions: The Experts Weigh In
    By Nathania Johnson

    SearchEngineWatch.com
    Every January, journalists, bloggers and other industry folk take to their respective blogs and publications to predict what may happen in the New Year…

  • January 19, 2010
    Recession generates big spike in click fraud rate
    By Dave Porter

    Axcess News
    Attempted click fraud soared in the fourth quarter by close to 40% over third quarter rates of 18.6% to 25.7% in the fourth quarter…

  • January 19, 2010
    Click Fraud Rate Spikes In Q4
    By Mike Sachoff

    WebProNews
    The average attempted click fraud rate increased from 18.6 percent in the third quarter of 2009, to 25.7 percent in the fourth quarter…

  • January 19, 2010
    One in Four Clicks “Bogus” Says Anchor Intelligence Report
    By Peter A. Prestipino

    Website Magazine
    So what’s up with click fraud these days? A lot and none of it’s good. Anchor Intelligence released its “Traffic Quality Report: 2009…

  • January 11, 2010
    Expert: Fraudsters Pull Tricks With Google Ads
    By Jeremy Kirk

    PCWorld
    Companies such as Continental Airlines rely on Internet advertising from Google to deliver customers to their Web site. It constitutes essential marketing…

  • December 17, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence to score traffic for Affinity
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    As advertising networks look ahead to 2010 many are looking at bettering the traffic to publisher and branded websites. The key to bettering traffic…

  • December 15, 2009
    Industry Roundup
    By Gavin Dunaway

    Adotas
    Text-based advertising network has chosen Anchor Intelligence’s ClearMark software to score traffic within its network…

  • November 19, 2009
    Execs & Accounts: Sapient, R/GA, Organic
    By ClickZ News Staff

    ClickZ
    Oodle taps Anchor Intelligence to evaluate classifieds. Oodle will use Anchor Intelligence’s ClearMark…

  • November 19, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence, Oodle partner for classified traffic solution
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    A new partnership between metrics firm Anchor Intelligence and fraud detection unit Oodle could help marketers in the social space…

  • November 18, 2009
    Oodle Partners With Anchor Intelligence [Click Fraud]
    By Peter A. Prestipino

    Website Magazine
    Who knew classifieds weren’t immune from click fraud? Traffic quality solution provider Anchor Intelligence will now be providing traffic scoring…

  • October 30, 2009
    Anchor Weighs in on Click Fraud
    By Jordan McCollum

    Marketing Pilgrim
    Anchor Intelligence has just released its Q3 09 click fraud data—and it’s down, contrary to what Click Forensics reported for the same period…

  • October 30, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence Reports Decline in Click Fraud, Identifies New Hotspots
    By Nathania Johnson

    SearchEngineWatch.com
    Anchor Intelligence has released its click fraud report for the third quarter of 2009. It paints a different picture than…

  • October 30, 2009
    Turn Says RTB Working In Initial Tests; X+1 Flying Delta; Bartz Talks To Analysts…
    By John Ebbert

    AdExchanger.com
    Anchor Intelligence says that according its data, click fraud declined in the third quarter of 2009 to 18.6 percent from 22.9 percent in Q2…

  • October 28, 2009
    New click fraud hotspots identified
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    A new click fraud report is out indicating that fraudulent click traffic may be originating in new places, creating more trouble for marketers and publishers…

  • October 28, 2009
    Quick hits: Pay for content? Never!
    By Gavin Dunaway

    Adotas
    Bad news for print publishers crossing their fingers that pay plans for online content will save the industry—only 16.5% of respondents to a survey…

  • October 28, 2009
    Average Click Fraud Rate Dips In Q3
    By Mike Sachoff

    SecurityProNews
    The average attempted click fraud rate fell from 22.9 percent in Q2 to 18.6 percent in Q3, a decrease of almost 19 percent, according to a new report from Anchor Intelligence…

  • October 19, 2009
    Avoiding Video Network Pitfalls
    By Eric Franchi

    MediaPost
    The news over the past few weeks has been interesting, to say the least, when it comes to ad networks and those who work with them…

  • October 15, 2009
    Malicious Banners: What’s Old Is New Again
    By Zachary Rodgers

    ClickZ
    The recent alarm about malicious display ads began slowly, but has rapidly gained steam…

  • October 15, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence offers chills with browser highjacking experience
    By Gavin Dunaway

    Adotas
    The faint of heart best click away. Just in time for Halloween (as well as Cyber Security Awareness Month), Anchor Intelligence…

  • October 15, 2009
    Internet Marketing 101: What to look for in a malware attack
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    Are you and your customers really safe from the botnets delivering malware, from phishing attacks and other fraudsters? The fact is…

  • October 14, 2009
    Botnet Attack Spreads Virus Through Twittersphere
    By Laurie Sullivan

    MediaPost
    The Twittersphere came under a phishing attack Wednesday that sent direct messages to Twitterers. The messages, which appear to be sent by a follower…

  • October 14, 2009
    Taking a bite out of cyber crime
    By Gavin Dunaway

    Adotas
    Deep within the Shanghai Technology Institute and other Chinese technical universities, criminal plots were brewing…

  • October 14, 2009
    Living In the Real World
    By Jarvis Coffin

    Huffington Post
    The Wall Street Journal ran a story yesterday about a certain kind of advertising fraud online wherein rogue publishers will fabricate impressions…

  • October 13, 2009
    It’s 10 P.M.: Do You Know Where Your Online Ads Are?
    By Emily Steel

    Wall Street Journal
    Click fraud, in which a person or automated computer program clicks on ads repeatedly to make them seem more effective than they are…

  • October 12, 2009
    World’s largest click fraud ring shut down
    By Rich Cherecwich

    iMedia Connection
    A massive click fraud operation, believed to be the largest ever uncovered, has been effectively shut down…

  • October 12, 2009
    Massive click fraud ring detected and eliminated
    By Helen Leggatt

    BizReport
    The largest click fraud ring ever discovered has been detected and eliminated by Anchor Intelligence, saving advertisers millions of dollars…

  • October 12, 2009
    Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility
    By Emily Steel

    Wall Street Journal
    Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately…

  • October 11, 2009
    Multi-million dollar Chinese click fraud ring broken
    By Dave Porter

    AXcess News
    A multi-million dollar click fraud ring operating out of Singapore has been broken, thanks to Anchor Intelligence…

  • October 9, 2009
    $3 Million In Click Fraud Over Two Weeks? Just The Beginning
    By Rosa Golijan

    Gizmodo
    A recently disbanded click fraud ring in China racked up $3 million worth of clicks in two weeks. $3 million that we’re aware of…

  • October 9, 2009
    Massive Click Fraud Ring Shut Down
    By Mike Sachoff

    WebProNews
    One of the largest click fraud rings ever detected, originating from China, has been shut down by click fraud monitoring firm Anchor Intelligence…

  • October 9, 2009
    Click fraud gets more sophisticated
    By Daniel Farey-Jones

    Brand Republic
    The growing sophistication of click fraud has been highlighted with the discoveries of a 1,000 member-strong click fraud ring in China…

  • October 8, 2009
    The Evolution Of Click Fraud: Massive Chinese Operation DormRing1 Uncovered
    By Erick Schonfeld

    TechCrunch
    As long as advertisers pay for clicks, there will be click fraud. And the more people combat it, the more sophisticated the attacks become…

  • September 11, 2009
    Media Motion: NBC Everywhere, Greystripe, Transpera
    By Gretchen Hyman

    iMedia Communication
    Anchor Intelligence, a provider of traffic quality solutions, announced that it is launching the first-ever domain-level TQ management system…

  • September 8, 2009
    Nielsen On Ad Spending In 2009; Peanut Butter For AOL…
    By John Ebbert

    AdExchanger.com
    Anchor Intelligence announced last week that it’s offering a solution to help publishers and ad networks by scoring the traffic they send to Yahoo!...

  • August 17, 2009
    Comscore or Quantcast As The New Nielsen?; The Irksome OPA; Social Media Getting $8 Display Ad CPMs
    By John Ebbert

    AdExchanger.com
    In Online Strategies Magazine, Richard Sim of Anchor Intelligence delivers his thoughts on how the media business is evolving to a real-time marketplace…

  • August 14, 2009
    Transitioning from click-fraud detection to traffic-quality assessment
    By Richard Sim

    Online Strategies Magazine
    Online advertising - a medium where a tremendous amount of data is readily available and performance can often be measured down to the penny for a given ad - is on the verge of a revolutionary shift…

  • July 23, 2009
    Click Fraud’s New Asian Connection
    By Andy Greenberg

    Forbes
    A note of caution to online advertisers: That flood of Web users seemingly based in Vietnam may not simply be the result of a vibrant emerging economy coming online…

  • July 23, 2009
    Sure, The U.S. Has A Lot Of Click Fraud, But At Least We’re Not Vietnam
    By MG Siegler

    TechCrunch
    When it comes to ad clicks, Anchor Intelligence says it has more data than anyone this side of Google and Yahoo. And so when they release a report for the first time…

  • July 16, 2009
    Burst Media, Anchor Intelligence partner against click fraud
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    A new partnership between two big names in the online marketplace should give both publishers and marketers a bit more peace of mind…

  • July 15, 2009
    Ad Agencies Fighting Click Fraud
    By Peter A. Prestipino

    Website Magazine
    No one is immune from the recession. When advertisers cut back by spending less it impacts everyone - even those perpetuating click fraud. Agencies, whose margins are slim enough…

  • July 15, 2009
    Industry partnerships and new offerings
    By Edward Barrera

    Adotas
    Burst Media, an online media and technology company, has announced a partnership with Anchor Intelligence, a click fraud and traffic quality company…

  • June 30, 2009
    What social click fraud means for marketers
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    Word is out that Facebook’s marketing arm could be a problem for marketers. Earlier this year the social network announced it would hit $550 million in revenue…

  • June 17, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence CEO Miller Sees More Fraud Occuring In Clicks Than Impressions
    By AdExchanger

    AdExchanger.com
    In the past two quarters, we’ve seen the number of inbound inquiries into Anchor Intelligence increase by more than 400%. Market conditions are forcing advertisers to scrutinize…

  • June 17, 2009
    Click fraud threatens Web advertising
    By SearchSecurity.com

    IT Knowledge Exchange
    Click fraud is threatening online advertising, according to experts. This week, Anchor Intelligence lead scientist Daniel Walling and Richard Sim talk about how fraudsters are getting more sophisticated…

  • June 12, 2009
    Click Fraud; Minimized by Monitoring - Anchor Intelligence
    By Peter Prestipino

    Website Magazine
    Despite being a serious threat, click-fraud didn’t really diminish the value in and growth of paid search marketing. That’s not to say that click fraud does not remain a major issue…

  • June 10, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence launches click fraud alerts
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    Afraid of click fraud? There is a new tool to help marketers better monitor clicks. Anchor Intelligence has launched ClearMark Alerts as part of…

  • June 9, 2009
    Anchor Intelligence offers real-time click fraud alerts
    By Christoper Hosford

    B-to-B Magazine Online

    Web traffic quality company Anchor Intelligence has released a traffic-monitoring alert product that provides automated e-mail notification to users when the invalid rate…

  • June 2, 2009
    The Click Fraud Arms Race
    By Ken Miller

    Adotas

    Ad networks and search engines face challenging conditions when dealing with click fraud, the practice of generating clicks or impressions that have no economic value…

  • April 9, 2009
    Companies That Fight Click Fraud Enjoy the Downturn
    By Jessica E. Vascellaro

    The Wall Street Journal
    Many things are down during the recession. But there’s a boom in click fraud, the tricks used to make online ads seem more effective than they are. And companies that police the practice are seeing fresh business…

  • April 9, 2009
    Ask Partners With Anchor Intelligence To Stop Fraudsters And Optimize Ad Serving
    By Michael Arrington

    TechCrunch
    The downturn in the economy is apparently leading more than the usual number of ambitious click-fraudsters to try their luck. And that’s causing ad networks to think a lot more about click fraud…

  • April 9, 2009
    Ask.com, Anchor Intelligence Partner for Search Ad Solution
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    IAC search engine Ask.com has partnered with metrics firm Anchor Intelligence for an advertising measurement solution. The partnership will see Anchor Intelligence providing Ask.com with the ability to reduce non-billable traffic…

  • April 9, 2009
    Ask.com Taps Anchor Intelligence for Click Fraud Reduction
    By Nathania Johnson

    Search Engine Watch
    Ask.com has selected Anchor Intelligence to assist in reducing click fraud. Anchor Intelligence says it uses network security intelligence to identify fraud. Such methods include spam traps, honeypots, and stealth servers…

  • April 9, 2009
    Ask.com Now Scoring Ad Clicks Through Third Party
    By Mary Elizabeth Hurn

    DMNews
    Ask.com will now score all of its paid search clicks using Anchor Intelligence’s ClearMark software. This is the first time Anchor has partnered with a major search engine. The move is part of an effort to keep Ask’s advertisers from paying for fraudulent clicks…

  • April 9, 2009
    Ask.com Taps Anchor Intelligence for Click Fraud Reduction
    By Nathania Johnson

    Search Engine Watch
    Ask.com has selected Anchor Intelligence to assist in reducing click fraud. Anchor Intelligence says it uses network security intelligence to identify fraud…

  • March 20, 2009
    Traffic Report: LookSmart Puts Priority on Quality Network
    By Michael Schoen

    Looksmart
    This week, LookSmart announced a partnership with traffic quality solutions provider Anchor Intelligence. By licensing Anchor Intelligence’s real-time traffic scoring system, ClearMark, LookSmart can further reduce its advertisers’ exposure to illegitimate or fraudulent traffic…

  • March 18, 2009
    LookSmart Partners With Anchor Intelligence to Measure Click Validity
    By Mary Elizabeth Hurn

    DMNews
    Search ad network LookSmart has formed a partnership with Anchor Intelligence,  which monitors online traffic quality. Under the partnership, all clicks generated by LookSmart and its clients will be now be scored by Anchor’s ClearMark…

  • January 13, 2009
    Anchor’s Fraud Detection Confronts Hackers
    By Laurie Sullivan

    MediaPost
    Anchor Intelligence next month will begin testing a platform that rates Web sites in publisher networks. The platform will tell advertisers, ad networks, and search engines whether the sites generate good, poor, or fraudulent traffic…

  • December 23, 2008
    Ad Cuts, Mass Market, Click Fraud, and Couponing
    By Edward Barrera

    Adotas
    Predictions about next year from Jim Sterne, Jaffer Ali, Ken Miller, and Dave Hendricks. “Advertising cuts will come in various flavors this year. Some will simply cut across the board, some will cut based on gut, and some based on internal politics…

  • December 17, 2008
    10 Tips for Shutting Down Online Swindlers
    By Ken Miller

    iMedia Communication
    Internet fraudsters tend to step up their activities during the busy holiday season. Follow these steps to prevent shady activity from stealing your valuable ad dollars…

  • December 10, 2008
    How to Enter the Era of Transparency
    By Tim Hanlon

    iMedia Communication
    Tim Hanlon of VivaKi Ventures discusses in his Keynote at the iMedia Agency Summit the need for more accountable data in a world where advertisers pay only for success…

  • November 18, 2008
    Click Fraud To Shape Ad Decisions in 2009
    By Ken Miller

    Adotas
    We are in the midst of a transition in online advertising that may not be fully appreciated for another year. As financial fears and uncertainty pervade Wall Street, and once-high-flying Internet darlings struggle to stay relevant…

  • September 23, 2008
    Say ‘No Thanks’ To Thank You Clicks
    By Ken Miller

    MediaPost
    Recently, Seth Godin suggested that readers who like the content of a site should click on an ad, hosted by that site, to show their appreciation. This begs the question, “Are ‘thank you’ clicks valid, or are they fraudulent?”...

  • September 14, 2008
    Click Fraud—Beyond IP Blacklisting—Interview with Ken Miller
    By Web Pro Minute

    Web Professional Minute
    For today’s podcast I have the pleasure to be interviewing Ken Miller, Anchor Intelligence CEO. Anchor Intelligence is a solution provider for Click Fraud. Click fraud as you know is the dark side of online advertising…

  • September 13, 2008
    Ron Conway: More Reasons to Go All Angel
    By Carleen Hawn

    GigaOm
    Lately we’ve been discussing the many reasons why taking smaller, angel-sized investments instead of larger venture capital stakes often makes more sense for startups in a wobbly, exit-bereft market like the current one…

  • August 21, 2008
    IP Blacklisting doesn’t stop click fraud
    By Kristina Knight

    BizReport
    Blacklisting may be a good solution when it comes to email marking but the same cannot be said for paid search or display ad campaigns. A new report indicates that IP blacklisting isn’t a good solution for click fraud…

  • August 19, 2008
    Blacklisting IP addresses is not a solution
    By Ellen Keohane

    DMNews
    Internet protocol (IP) address blacklisting is not a solid solution for click fraud, according to new research by Anchor Intelligence. “It’s a very complex problem,” Ken Miller, CEO and co-founder of Anchor Intelligence, said…

  • June 24, 2008
    To Catch a Thief: Talking Fraud with Ken Miller
    By Connie Loizos

    PEHub
    For seven years, Ken Miller was responsible for risk and fraud management at PayPal. Today, Miller is CEO of 19-month-old Anchor Intelligence in Mountain View, a third party to about 50 or so ad networks…

  • April 23, 2008
    Anchor Intelligence Launches ClearMark
    By Jerry Weinstein

    Jack Myers
    There’s an elephant in the online advertising room, and no, it’s not the threat of Recession. The rate of click fraud is keeping up with, and in some cases exceeding the pace of online ad growth…

  • December 9, 2007
    Anchor Intelligence to Audit Click Fraud
    By Michael Arrington

    TechCrunch
    Palo Alto based Anchor Intelligence, which was called FraudWall until last week, may be part of the long term solution to the click fraud problem that plagues the big cost-per-click advertising networks (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft in particular)...

  • March 19, 2007
    Baidu’s Click-Fraud Problem, and More on Fraudwall
    By Matt Marshall

    VentureBeat
    Chinese search engine Baidu is apparently having more problems with click-fraud that Google is—and it has hurt Baidu’s stock. Click-fraud is a major problem, and it is rampant in China. Click-fraud is when people click on an online ad…

  • January 8, 2007
    Fraudwall, an Anti-Click Fraud Company, Raises Millions
    By Matt Marshall

    VentureBeat
    Ron Conway, a well-known Internet investor, and entrepreneur Jim Pitkow have co-founded a company to stop advertising fraud online. They’ve invested an undisclosed amount of millions, alongside other angel investors…

  • January 5, 2007
    New Fraudwall CEO Takes on Web Ads
    By Kevin J. Delaney

    The Wall Street Journal
    Fraudwall Technologies Inc., a closely held start-up tackling online advertising, has recruited former eBay Inc. executive Ken Miller as chief executive…

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