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Rich Kahn discusses the $140 billion ad fraud problem in the digital advertising industry.

Rich Kahn, CEO of Anura and one of the digital advertising industry's most uncompromising voices on ad fraud, joins Pesach Lattin on The ADOTAT Show for a conversation that should be required watching for every media buyer, brand marketer, programmatic trader, and ad tech executive who has ever looked at a campaign dashboard and assumed the numbers were real. They are not. At least not half of them. In this episode, Rich Kahn breaks down the $140 billion annual ad fraud problem that the programmatic advertising ecosystem has systematically chosen to ignore, explains why the pre-bid filtering your DSP is selling you catches roughly one to three percent of actual invalid traffic, and describes in detail the AI-assisted bot attack that defeated every IVT vendor in the market simultaneously, including his own company, for two months in 2024. He also walks through what happened on the floor of Affiliate World Bangkok, where fraudulent traffic certified to defeat all fraud detection systems was being sold openly at convention booths like any other media product. This is not a theoretical conversation. This is twenty years of data, delivered by the person who has been running it. But…

People in this episode

Guest: Rich Kahn

Topics covered

• ad fraud
• digital advertising
• programmatic advertising
• media buying
• AI in advertising

Keywords

• ad fraud
• programmatic advertising
• invalid traffic
• digital marketing
• AI bot attack

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Organizations: Anura

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