AdNow
NativeBanner / Display
Native channel · scored 0–100

Which AdNow publishers send real traffic?

Not all AdNow traffic is equal. ValidVisit scores every visit 0–100 and pins it to the exact publisher that sent it — so you can tell real humans from bots and invalid clicks, worst publishers first.

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Exclude the bad publisher/source ID in AdNow

The buyer collects publisher IDs via the {SRC_ID} tracking token in their tracker, then applies the list of bad publisher IDs as a campaign black list (or good ones as a white list) — widget IDs from spy tools are NOT accepted as the exclusion key.

Where: Not documented as a self-serve UI control; per AdNow support (AffiliateFix thread) black/white lists are made from Publisher IDs collected via the {SRC_ID} token and applied to the campaign (in practice via campaign sett
Controls in AdNow’s campaign settings
OS OS version Browser Browser version Language Device Connection

ValidVisit reports the device, OS, browser — down to the version — plus the language and ISP behind every flagged visit, and AdNow supports device type targeting. The segments we flag are segments you can exclude.

4
AdNow tokens mapped to attribution
1
sub-source dimensions scored
per-click
unique id — velocity & dedupe checks
0–100
quality score on every visit
01 / SIGNAL

How invalid traffic slips in through AdNow publishers.

AdNow is a native channel — exactly where invalid traffic concentrates. See which AdNow publishers, placements and sub-sources send real clicks versus bots, attributed via AdNow’s own tracking tokens and scored 0–100 per source.

02 / SCORED

Pinpoint the bot publishers & placements in AdNow.

AdNow itself isn't the problem — bots and invalid traffic concentrate in a handful of its sub-sources: the publisher, site or zone, and the placement or widget within it. So we roll the score up by those AdNow tokens, not by creative (which says nothing about whether a click was human).

Bought as one AdNow line, your spend is a single number. Scored per sub-source it runs from 85 down to 22 — the worst is nearly all bots. That’s the leak a blended average hides.

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0–39 invalid40–69 suspicious70–100 clean
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AdNow traffic scored 0–100 per sub-source, worst first — down to the placement you buy.

Publisher / site / zone

Bot / invalid-traffic score broken down by:

  • Site ID [site_id]

Per-click id: AdNow passes a unique click id, so we also run velocity, deduplication and repeat-source checks on every visit.

Compare bot & invalid-traffic breakdown across every ad network →

See your own AdNow sub-sources scored this way.

03 / ATTRIBUTION

How ValidVisit attributes AdNow traffic

Each AdNow macro maps to a normalized parameter, so every scored click is pinned to the right campaign, creative and publisher.

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A AdNow tracking URL ValidVisit can score
https://yoursite.com/landing?utm_source=adnow&utm_medium=native&vv_click_id=[click_id]&vv_campaign_id=[camp_id]&vv_publisher_id=[site_id]&vv_ad_id=[ad_id]
Click ID
AdNow macro
[click_id]
Maps to
click_id
Identifies
click
Campaign ID
AdNow macro
[camp_id]
Maps to
campaign_id
Identifies
campaign
Site ID
AdNow macro
[site_id]
Maps to
publisher_id
Identifies
publisher
Ad ID
AdNow macro
[ad_id]
Maps to
ad_id
Identifies
ad
04 / DETECTION

How the detection works.

100+
Scale

Data points → one score

Every visit is weighed against more than a hundred independent data points and reduced to a single, sortable 0–100 quality score.

1 verdict
Depth

Many angles, combined

Each data point is combined rather than checked in isolation, so a genuine human almost never trips enough of them to be flagged — and bots that beat one rarely beat the rest.

0–100
Model

Proprietary, not a black box

The detection model is ours and stays that way. What you get is a clear verdict on every visit — not a single brittle rule you can game, and not an unexplained number you can't act on.

per source
Action

Pinned to the source

Every verdict maps to the campaign, publisher and placement that sent the click — so you know exactly which source to cut.

05 / THE CUT-LIST

How ValidVisit helps you cut fraud and bad publisher/source IDs on AdNow.

Scoring and attribution are the means — the point is cutting the AdNow traffic that wastes your spend. Here's how ValidVisit gets you a list you can act on.

  1. Score

    See what's actually landing

    You buy AdNow clicks; what arrives are visits. ValidVisit scores each one 0–100 so real humans stand out from bots and invalid traffic — one script, no funnel hop, no fingerprinting.

  2. Attribute

    Pin the fraud to its source

    Every scored visit is tied to the exact AdNow publisher/source ID and zone via the network's own tokens — so the bad traffic has an address, not just a headline percentage.

  3. Cut

    Take the publisher/source IDs off your buy

    You get the worst offenders as a ready-to-use list plus postbacks to your tracker — so you can exclude them in AdNow and put your next dollar behind the traffic that converts.

FAQ

AdNow traffic quality, answered.

How does ValidVisit detect invalid AdNow traffic?+

Every AdNow click is weighed against 100+ independent data points spanning the network it came from, the device behind it and how the visitor behaves — combined into a single 0–100 quality score so real humans pass and bots stand out.

Can I see which AdNow publishers send bots?+

Yes. Using AdNow's own tracking tokens, ValidVisit attributes each scored click to the publisher, placement and sub-source, so invalid traffic is pinned to the exact sub-source — which you can then exclude manually in AdNow.

Does it require a funnel hop on my AdNow links?+

No. Detection runs from one lightweight script — no extra hop, no link rewriting, no change to your AdNow destination URLs.

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Find the bots in your AdNow spend.

See which publishers and placements send real buyers vs bots — every visit scored 0–100, worst first.

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