Re:YouTube kills billions of video views faked by Music Indu...
by jre on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:30AM
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I'm not sure about that. It seems that the flaw used (described in other comments here) just required to do a GET request on the video stream, not stream it fully. So whether or not fake impressions took place depends on how and when ad impressions are counted.
I would think you need to download at least part of the ad for it to count as an impression.
Assuming a $5 CPM, this article means Google is admitting to making at least $10 million from advertising to fake impressions.