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More robots than humans saw Mercedes-Benz online advertising campaign, Telemetry states

on May 27, 2014 | 0 comments

By Ishbel Macleod

More computer bots saw the latest Mercedes-Benz online advertising campaign than humans, new research states.

According to the Financial Times, who has seen documents on the campaign, the ads were inadvertently placed on to fraudulent websites by Rocket Fuel, the ad tech company which went public last year.

Mercedes has said that it and its US advertising agency, Merkley & Partners, which is part of Omnicom Group, have continued to work with Rocket Fuel, and that it received a refund from Rocket Fuel following the incident.

According to Telemetry, a UK company which specialises in detecting ad fraud, in a sample of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum