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Andrew Batey
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Also: Andrew
Guest who describes his history in digital marketing and his later work detecting music-stream fraud.
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Andrew Batey
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Like-jacking
Andrew says like-jacking was one of his favorite techniques and that his group used it to drive large numbers of fans to pages.
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Confidence 99%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
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“My favorite thing at the time was like-jacking.”
“we could drive millions of fans to things”
Andrew Batey
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Ad arbitrage
Andrew says his group used ad arbitrage by buying inexpensive traffic while selling higher-priced advertising inventory.
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Confidence 99%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
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“Another thing we did in the early days was kind of an ad arbitrage.”
“we would be able to sort of print money”
Andrew Batey
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Facebook
Andrew says his group used Facebook-related manipulation to launch artists and artificially increase followers and likes.
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Confidence 95%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
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“we launched an artist on Facebook”
“we could drive a million fans to something”
Andrew Batey
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YouTube
Andrew says his group loaded muted YouTube videos into pop-under windows to rapidly increase view counts and reach YouTube's front page.
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Confidence 99%
· Andrew Batey
EP 171
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“We would load it with YouTube videos on mute”
“we could basically break into the algorithm on the front page”
Beatdapp
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Andrew Batey
Beatdapp is described as the company Andrew co-founded and whose blockchain and stream-analysis technology he helped build.
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Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 171
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“the name of the company that Andrew co-founded was called Beatdapp”
“We built this technology.”