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First impression clicks look fishy (5)

09-30-2014 02:23 PM #1 tyrone3340 (Member)
First impression clicks look fishy

Hey guys I was trying out the traffic source first impression, So I started a campaign that was doing ok on another traffic source and the campaign bombed terribly. I took a look at the visitor stats and this is what I saw https://www.dropbox.com/s/hyi2irind4...31648.png?dl=0 Can you guys tell me what you think? because it looks like a crap load of fake clicks to me.

09-30-2014 03:20 PM #2 dario (Member)

Those looks like RIM (Blackberry) users, disable this kind of shitty carrier / devices

09-30-2014 03:25 PM #3 tyrone3340 (Member)

I had rim os and blackberry devices blacklisted in that campaign

10-01-2014 12:44 AM #4 zeno (Administrator)

I haven't heard good things about First Impression, but maybe I'm thinking of another platform.

All those clicks from Houston look to be from a cloud services provider, http://www.iland.com/, so are very likely not real users clicking.

It could be automated monitoring of ad destinations?

In any case, if you are paying for those, I certainly would be demanding an explanation. I'd probably even get in touch to ask why there are so many clicks coming from there. Is it automated testing? Is it a specific placement? Could it be someone's spy tool? Etc.

10-01-2014 12:52 AM #5 tyrone3340 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
I haven't heard good things about First Impression, but maybe I'm thinking of another platform.

All those clicks from Houston look to be from a cloud services provider, http://www.iland.com/, so are very likely not real users clicking.

It could be automated monitoring of ad destinations?

In any case, if you are paying for those, I certainly would be demanding an explanation. I'd probably even get in touch to ask why there are so many clicks coming from there. Is it automated testing? Is it a specific placement? Could it be someone's spy tool? Etc.
I will definanty ask them if this is normal but at any rate I will not use them in the future. Thanks as always for the great information Zeno can;t wait to meet you guys in London.

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