Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views

Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by phkahler on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:58AM (#13220315)

>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average of $13.04 per faked view.

Who on earth pays that kind of price to have someone watch their ad video? Serious question.

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by niklaslogren on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:04AM (#13220366)

The article has since been updated, now it mentions $13.04 per 1000 views:

>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average payout of $13.04 per thousand faked views.

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by 77pt77 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:40AM (#13220728)

> $13.04 per thousand faked views

I thought the usual payout was an order of magnitude lower than that.

Something like 1$ per thousand views

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by elcct on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:43AM (#13220750)

Probably $13.04 is what network takes for 1k views... publishers get scraps

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by 77pt77 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:45AM (#13221456)

I seriously doubt the order of magnitude is right.

I'd really like someone with monetized videos to give some real input on this.

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by shawabawa3 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:54AM (#13221547)

I used to work on an online video platform where we were selling some 30-second unskippable video ads for £20CPM, so order of magnitude seems right to me

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by CameronBanga on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:01AM (#13220334)

I think 13.04 would be the CPM, not per view. I'm not sure if that's high or low for video ads, but wanted to stress that number isn't per view. If it was, they would have made slightly more than $5mil. :)

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by baybal2 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:21AM (#13220533)

Clickfarm workers should unionise...

Their usual pay is around 5 USD per hour here in Russia

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Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views by notoriousOIT on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:12PM (#13224049)

It's a CPM man. Not per view.

CPM = Cost Per Thousand Impressions (not views)

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