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Radio and TV have ratings and viewership estimations, billboards and video panels presumably have a knowable amount of vehicle/foot traffic. These things are independently verifiable to anyone so inclined.

When buying internet ad space, though, the information asymmetry is vastly different.



As far as I understand nothing prevent us from introducing independent verification for online ads?


How? Sure, you can go look for yourself, but that will never tell you if the other million users are seeing the same ad.




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