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Andrew Batey

person:andrew_batey Also: Andrew

Guest who describes his history in digital marketing and his later work detecting music-stream fraud.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
outgoing USES Like-jacking Explicit 171
outgoing USES Ad arbitrage Explicit 171
outgoing USES Facebook Explicit 171
outgoing USES YouTube Explicit 171
incoming DEVELOPED_BY Beatdapp Explicit 171

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Andrew Batey USES 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.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Andrew Batey EP 171 Details

“My favorite thing at the time was like-jacking.”

Andrew Batey · offsets 4278–4325

“we could drive millions of fans to things”

Andrew Batey · offsets 5872–5913

Andrew Batey USES Ad arbitrage

Andrew says his group used ad arbitrage by buying inexpensive traffic while selling higher-priced advertising inventory.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Andrew Batey EP 171 Details

“Another thing we did in the early days was kind of an ad arbitrage.”

Andrew Batey · offsets 6497–6564

“we would be able to sort of print money”

Andrew Batey · offsets 7204–7243

Andrew Batey USES Facebook

Andrew says his group used Facebook-related manipulation to launch artists and artificially increase followers and likes.

Explicit Confidence 95% · Andrew Batey EP 171 Details

“we launched an artist on Facebook”

Andrew Batey · offsets 9803–9836

“we could drive a million fans to something”

Andrew Batey · offsets 11170–11212

Andrew Batey USES YouTube

Andrew says his group loaded muted YouTube videos into pop-under windows to rapidly increase view counts and reach YouTube's front page.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Andrew Batey EP 171 Details

“We would load it with YouTube videos on mute”

Andrew Batey · offsets 7846–7890

“we could basically break into the algorithm on the front page”

Andrew Batey · offsets 8047–8108

Beatdapp DEVELOPED_BY Andrew Batey

Beatdapp is described as the company Andrew co-founded and whose blockchain and stream-analysis technology he helped build.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 171 Details

“the name of the company that Andrew co-founded was called Beatdapp”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 45658–45724

“We built this technology.”