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Ad Ecosystems and Key Components

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Fraud Prevention in Online Digital Advertising

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In this chapter, we briefly describe the digital advertising ecosystem, mainly from the display advertising perspective. We will first describe the real-time bidding framework for online digital advertising, including technical platforms for publishers, advertisers, and the market place for online Ad inventory buying and selling. After that, we will describe major business model of online advertising, and explain three types of revenue models commonly used in Ad systems, including impression-based revenue model (CPM), click-based revenue model (CPC), and action based revenue model (CPA).

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Zhu, X., Tao, H., Wu, Z., Cao, J., Kalish, K., Kayne, J. (2017). Ad Ecosystems and Key Components. In: Fraud Prevention in Online Digital Advertising. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56793-8_2

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