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MediaPost: Miscalculations From Facebook, Dentsu Could Force Ad Industry Change

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The need for greater transparency and accountability hit the advertising industry Friday after Facebook confessed that it miscalculated how long site visitors watch video ads and Dentsu admitted to overcharging clients for digital media services by placing fewer ads than promised.

Monthly audits could become the new normal for many more companies. “We recently discovered an error in the way we calculate one of our video metrics,” Facebook said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.

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