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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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