POWERED BY FOUANALYTICS

Forensic proof of media
effectiveness in an era of
ad fraud and wasted
impressions

How not to lose 20-40 cents in every dollar of digital ad spend

TruthsetsOnline uses forensic analytics to show you exactly where your media budget is going. And recovers it. Powered by FouAnalytics.
Trusted across thousands of campaigns. Independent, unbiased, and built for brand-side accountability.

Why Forensic Analysis?

Your digital budget is funding fraud
Here is why.

THE PROBLEM

Digital ad fraud is not a niche problem or an edge case your team can screen for manually. It is structural, accelerating, and being amplified by AI. Most brands significantly underestimate its impact, because the tools they rely on were never designed to detect it.

THE EVIDENCE

There simply aren’t enough humans on Earth to view the number of impressions currently being bought and sold.
The gap between what is purchased and what is seen is not a rounding error. It is the foundation of a broken market.

THE SOLUTION

Using deterministic forensic analytics, we replace the industry’s comfortable fiction with evidence you can act on, calmly, clearly, and without blame.
$ 0 B
in estimated global losses in 2023*
$ 0 B

projected by 2028*
* Source: Juniper Research

0 B+

daily impressions purchased globally — a volume that far exceeds the total capacity of human eyeballs to consume them

The reality every brand faces

Not ‘if’ but ‘how much’?

$ 0 B
Projected global digital ad fraud losses by 2028
1 in 1
Impressions likely viewed by a real human
0 %
Share of programmatic spend that reaches its intended audience
ANNUAL DIGITAL AD SPEND

The forensic solution

Every impression. Every variable. Every answer.

From a ‘black box’ to a ‘glass box’

TruthsetsOnline, powered by FouAnalytics, replaces assumptions with evidence. Not estimates, not modelled projections. Deterministic forensic data on every impression your budget touches.

Deterministic, not probabilistic

Legacy verification tools classify impressions based on statistical models. We verify impressions based on the actual data each impression produces.

There is no sampling. There is no extrapolation. Every impression is analysed individually, and the findings are grounded in evidence rather than inference.

FouAnalytics shows ‘good’ traffic (blue) as weighted against ‘bad’ traffic (red) to indicate fraudulent traffic

Who we help

BUILT FOR THE TEAMS WHO NEED CLARITY MOST

CMOS and brand leaders

Protect the brand. Prove the ROI.

If you are responsible for a significant digital media budget, the question is not whether fraud is affecting your campaigns. It is how much — and how to recover it.

TruthsetsOnline gives you: 

Media buyers and agencies

Clean the supply chain without disrupting client relationships.

Forensic analytics gives you the evidence to have better conversations with your media partners, not to place blame, but to drive sustained improvement in inventory quality.

TruthsetsOnline gives you: 

Data analysts

High-fidelity signal integrity for your models.

If your downstream analysis depends on media data, the quality of that data determines the quality of every insight you produce. Modelled estimates and sampled proxies introduce noise that compounds across your entire analytical framework.

TruthsetsOnline gives you:

An example of the significant drop-off in bids won and
ads served. You paid for the bids won; did the ads serve?
Did you get the right amount?

Why ‘viewable’ does not mean ‘seeable’

Legacy verification tools report impressions, views, and reassuringly low fraud rates, because that is all they were designed to see. Forensic, modern analytics reveal more:

We do not report on what likely happened. We verify it. It’s the difference between activity and actual human presence.

When fraud and non-human traffic are removed from a campaign, the economics shift fundamentally. Cost per real human drops dramatically, boosting real campaign performance.

Brands that have made this shift recover between 20% and 60% of spend previously lost to fraud, waste, and non-human, viewable inventory.

Why ‘viewable’ does not mean ‘could be seen’

The MRC viewability standard was designed before bots became sophisticated enough to simulate human behaviour at scale. It measures whether pixels were loaded, not whether a human was present.

Pixels can load:

Viewability is a technical threshold. It is not evidence of human attention. Conflating the two has cost brands billions.

AD SIZE

FREQUENCY

THE 1 % BLIND SPOT

How "1% fraud" became the industry's comfort zone

Advertisers reassured by low fraud rates
Agencies reported delivery against agreed metrics
Platforms reported reach against volumes
Everyone optimised toward vanity metrics
Not a conspiracy — inertia. The cost has been enormous.

THE EFFICIENCY GAP

0 %
of programmatic spend reaches its intended human audience.
+ 0 pts

Quality-disciplined brands outperform that average by nearly 20 percentage points.

VIEWABLE ≠ COULD BE SEEN

Pixels load where no human is present

Background tabs · invisible frames · stacked placements · apps running silently. Viewability is a technical threshold, not evidence of attention.

The efficiency gap

The ANA found that only 36% of programmatic spend reaches its intended human audience.* Quality-disciplined brands — those who have applied forensic-grade measurement and cleaned their supply chains — outperform this average by nearly 20 percentage points.

That gap is not theoretical. It is a recoverable budget sitting in the hands of fraudsters and low-quality inventory sellers.

Forensic analytics closes this gap by verifying every single one.

[*ANA Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study]

CLARITY NOT COMPLEXITY

The forensic edge - powered by FouAnalytics

Based on 25 years of intimate knowledge of the industry and digital ad environment, our experts know what, where, and how to collect data with zero latency, and to triangulate across 300 to 500 variables to arrive at deterministic outcomes.

1

Deterministic measurement:

Every impression is analysed individually, not modelled from a sample.

2

300+ forensic variables:

Site and app level, behavioural, environmental, and contextual signals triangulated per impression

3

In-ad proprietary JS tags:

We see where your ad actually rendered, not where the bid claimed it went. [Not all JS tags are made the same!]

4

Complete independence:

No incentives tied to media volume, delivery, or platform relationships.

5

Cookieless, privacy-safe:

No personal data collected, no user tracking, no PII.

6

Algorithm supremacy:

Consistently tuned based on data from real campaigns.

FouAnalytics reveals the truth

A partnership

We work alongside your team and your agency to improve outcomes for everyone. We are not here to assign blame, expose failures, or disrupt relationships that matter to your business.

We are here to give you the evidence to make better decisions and the capability to keep making them independently.

01 — Free Forensic Trial
Deploy tags. Run the analysis alongside your existing tools. Compare the results. The data will make the case without us having to.

02 — Daily Optimisation
As the picture becomes clear, we work with you to identify specific sources of fraud and waste and make adjustments in real time. No disruption. No drama.

03 — Inclusion List Strategy
Shift investment toward human-verified placements. Reduce systemic risk and stabilise performance across your portfolio.

04 — Building Your In-House Forensic Capability
Your team learns to operate FouAnalytics independently. We transfer capability, not dependency.

05 — Ongoing Support
Sustained optimisation through defined processes. We remain available as your campaigns evolve and the fraud landscape shifts.

Independent and unbiased, in every sense

We are not owned by, affiliated with, or financially incentivised by any publisher, platform, or media network.

We do not earn more when your media spend increases. We do not have commercial relationships with the inventory sellers we audit. Our fee is paid by you, and our findings answer only to you.

In a market where most verification vendors have some form of platform dependency, genuine independence is not a minor point. It is the foundation of findings you can actually trust.

Cookieless and privacy-safe

No personal data. No user tracking. No PII of any kind.

Our forensic methodology works entirely without cookies or user-level identifiers. This means our findings are not affected by consent rates, browser restrictions, or evolving privacy regulations.