Those brand advertisers really destroyed advertising on the web, with the help of bot clickers ... Pay per click !? Great we don't want clicks ... I got 1000 clicks! Nope, all bots! Advertising went from fully automated to fully manual. There's billions of dollars wasted on manual marketing, and I know many have tried, but if you can make advertising fully automatic again, there's your unicorn startup!
I'm sure there are ways to detect real clickthrough vs fake? (via monitoring the behaviour of the visitor upon clicking through) Why isn't this the magic bullet (or unicorn) you speak of.
It is hard with video because of the bandwidth needed to fake video views. Plus Google has logged in accounts often for YT which helps with detecting if a bot.
