MWITA-BSO-2026-003 · Evidence B · P1
Fraud and sophisticated invalid traffic rates were 1.0% for protected campaigns versus 2.1% for an unprotected campaign on an average day in 2024, and 1.6% versus 5.2% on the highest day.
What this does not establish
The gap is not a causal estimate of incremental return on ad spend and does not cover unmeasured fraud, closed platforms or campaigns outside the observed inventory.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
The global fraud/SIVT benchmark declined 7% to 1.0% while APAC increased 2%, and known-bot GIVT rose sharply, so aggregate improvement did not apply uniformly across regions or traffic classes.
What would change the reading
Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, context changes and deployed commercial or human outcomes.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.