Fraud targeting mobile app marketers is evolving faster than ever. The bad guys have gotten smarter, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Fraudsters follow the money and there’s a massive amount of money in play in mobile advertising.
The threat of mobile fraud is rapidly escalating, draining marketing budgets at an alarmingly high rate and the bad news is: it’s not going anywhere.
22.6% of global mobile media spend is wasted on mobile fraud
Encourages re-investment in the wrong sources and of users you have already acquired
Reconciling invoices and trying to understand complex fraud reports drains your human resources
Real-Time Detection and Blocking
Install authentication Secure, post-compilation SDK, hashing and additional security measures block fraudulent install events, replayed events and rehashing instantly, before a single install or event is recorded.
Clustering-Based Anomaly Detection Clustering data and analyzing behavioral patterns to identify non-human behavioral patterns in real-time. Sub-publishers trafficking in this non-human traffic are automatically cut off.
Validation Rules This proprietary platform allows marketers to define when installs should not be attributed based on a number of parameters, including fraud data. Includes the ability to define custom CTIT thresholds per app, region, partner or campaign.
Attribution Calibrator While other attribution companies will report fraudulent installs and event as organic, AppsFlyer removes fraud from the reported customer journey, showing a frictionless journey and attribution installs and events to the right channels.
Post-Attribution Fraud analysis doesn’t stop at the attribution level. AppsFlyer continuously analyzes and reports your data even after installs and events have been attributed. Once behavior is identified as fraud, any future installs with the same attributes are blocked in real time.
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Analyzing multiple signals including short CTIT, referrer mismatching, multi-touch distribution patterns and more to identify and block install hijacking attempts in real-time
Analyzing CTIT anomalies, click-to-install conversion rates and multi-touch contribution rates to identify aberrant trends and block click flooding at its source, at the publisher and sub-publisher level
We’re maintaining active databases for 98% of the mobile devices on Earth, automatically blocking device farms. Sub-publishers trafficking concentrations of devices “new” to the database are blocked in real-time.
Our unique scale allows Protect360 to identify both highly targeted and widely distributed bots operating at both lower and higher volumes, blocking all bots and botnets in real-time
Our machine learning algos keep analyzing traffic even after installs- following the users along the full customer journey and preventing in-app events from fraudulent sources
Receipt validation is a mechanism used as a secure way against the app stores (iOS and Android), validating that in-app purchases indeed occurred as reported
Bots are mimicking human behavior that appears to be completely legitimate. Using our unique knowledge and expertise in human behavior and mobile devices, Protect360 analyzes hundreds of mobile sensors simultaneously: battery levels, changes in the movement of the position (angles and rotation) and device tilts to determine the authenticity of the user – differentiating between humans and machines.
Contrary to some widely-held beliefs, 16% of app install fraud is impossible to stop in real-time. The main reason for this is that some advanced fraud schemes cannot be identified based on individual actions of a script or bot. They are only identifiable later on, as patterns emerge at scale and contradict standard post-install user behavior.
AppsFlyer is the first attribution company to add this missing layer, streamlining the reconciliation process, so that advertisers get a report that can be used for settling up with media partners based on fraudulent installs – making it easier to detect fraudulent activity before they pay their partners, publishers and sub-publishers.
AppsFlyer’s new Post-Attribution reporting layer uncovers fraudulent activity that would, with other attribution providers, go undetected, and provides reporting tools to assist in reconciliation efforts – saving our customers millions of dollars every day.
With Protect360 we see a huge difference in our user quality and only pay for verified, real user-driven installs. This saves our team a tremendous amount of time, so they can focus on growing our suite of apps.
