Define and Eliminate Mobile Ad Fraud--Kochava Releases the Fraud Console

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SANDPOINT, Idaho, April 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Kochava (www.kochava.com) announces the Fraud Console—a suite of fraud prevention tools plus a powerful and real-time dynamic Global Fraud Blacklist. It is the most comprehensive fraud detection and abatement suite in the industry, eliminating the most frequent forms of mobile ad fraud.

Fraud has infiltrated the digital landscape as an enormous and elusive crime, siphoning billions of ad spend from marketers. The latest estimates indicate that fraud costs digital marketers $16.4 billion a year, according to audit verification company Adloox. The World Federation of Advertisers recently labeled digital ad fraud a form of organized crime, as reported by Business Insider.  

Kochava has long been at the forefront of fighting fraud, monitoring data abnormalities on behalf of customers. The Fraud Console gives customers access to 11 reports plus the real-time Global Fraud Blacklist. Customers can fight fraud using actionable data from the reports and also exclude hundreds of thousands of known fraudulent devices, IP addresses and networks/sites through the Blacklist.

"The world's largest brands trust Kochava for a reason. We always act on the customer's behalf, and protecting their marketing efforts from wasted ad spend is one of our core competencies," said Charles Manning, CEO of Kochava.

"The fraud prevention suite from Kochava has been an integral part of how we optimize campaigns on our client's behalf. Based on fraud indicators, we can quickly shift budget away from known fraudulent publishers to ensure our clients' dollars are being utilized to drive valid users via legitimate traffic sources," said Nate Gasser, VP Emerging Media and Technology at Camelot Communications.

Summary Reports Highlight Fraud by App
The Kochava fraud algorithms cover fraudulent tactics including:

• High Click Volume: High click volumes for IP addresses and devices obscure campaign outcomes. These two reports highlight entities with abnormally high click-to-install ratios. High CTIs are indicators of click injections, likely through bots or hijacked devices.

• Mean-time-to-install (MTTI) Outliers: MTTI is the average time between the click and install and varies by app and network. When MTTI varies greatly—either too short or long—this indicates that something is askew. Kochava also reports on time-to-install (TTI) outliers on installs that occur in fewer than 30 seconds after the click.

• Geographic click/install delta: Kochava pinpoints significant differences between the location of the click and the install.

• Platform mismatches: Ads that are repeatedly served to the wrong platform may be evidence of a bot farm or poorly targeted traffic.

• Multi-hash attribution matches: If networks and publishers hash device IDs multiple times, it is an indicator for fraud.

• Ad stacking clicks: Multiple ads are layered on top of each other but only a single ad placement is visible. If a user clicks on the visible ad, a click is registered for all the ads in the stack.

• Anonymous Installs: Transactions should be transparent; a site taking measures to hide its identity is blacklisted.

• Install/purchase receipt verification: Kochava verifies installs and purchases completed from the App Store and blacklists sites with too many unverified installs.

Activate the Global Fraud Blacklist
The Kochava Global Fraud Blacklist is a dynamic list of device IDs, IP addresses and network/site IDs curated from the Kochava customer base. These are entities that have been flagged as repeat offenders of fraudulent activity.

Marketers can choose to implement this Blacklist at the account, app or tracker level. They can select which entity to exclude, or enable all three entities for exclusion from traffic. In addition, marketers can add device IDs, IP addresses and networks/sites to their own account Blacklist directly from their account's Fraud Console.

"The Kochava fraud reports have been invaluable in assessing partners and have even provided the solid evidence necessary to secure significant refunds for bad traffic. Now, with Traffic Verification and the Global Fraud Blacklist, we have two great front-end tools to help avoid the issue altogether," said Kevin Grimes, Ad Operations Manager, DoubleDown Interactive.  

The Fraud Console: the solution for digital ad fraud in mobile
In the cat-and-mouse game of digital ad fraud, Kochava remains one step ahead with the Fraud Console, giving customers actionable data to refute unverified and potentially fraudulent traffic from their campaigns. The fraud reports and configurable Blacklist prevent wasteful ad spending and false outcomes. Using the Fraud Console means enabling fraud prevention at scale.

"Essentially, we're providing verification that an ad was displayed as it was intended," Manning said. "There's an enormous amount of time and energy that our customers—both marketers and networks—invest in creating or distributing a brand's product. Digital ad fraud is a parasite that wipes that investment away, and the Fraud Console is the firewall to prevent infiltration."

About Kochava
Kochava (www.kochava.com) offers a unique, holistic and unbiased analytics platform to plan, target, measure and optimize media spend. The Kochava Unified Audience Platform for mobile and connected devices combines potent features and global coverage with thousands of network and publisher integrations, allowing marketers to target audiences and measure campaign performance with precision. Real-time customizable visualizations give users fluid access to a full spectrum of data points, providing robust segmentation capabilities and real-time actionability. Yielding the most powerful tools in the ecosystem, Kochava is chosen by brands across industry verticals to measure the largest and most sophisticated ad campaigns.

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