Growth idea action plan
Disable Audience Network to eliminate paid ad bot traffic
Turn off Audience Network and Display Network expansion in paid ad campaigns to avoid massive bot click fraud and redirect budget to real prospects.
Why this can grow a startup
Default ad platform settings place ads on third-party Audience Networks where bots are programmed to click ads and submit fake leads. This artificially inflates marketing KPIs while starving sales teams of real prospects. Forcing ads to show only natively in the platform primary feed may increase CPC on paper, but delivers actual humans who can convert to paying customers.
Key metric to watch
79% on TikTok Audience Network
Ian's take
From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. Paid spend is useful when it sharpens the message. I would use this as a signal test, not a way to hide weak positioning. If the first small budget does not teach us something about the audience, the campaign is too vague. I would run it small enough to learn quickly, then only scale the parts that real users repeat, save, reply to, or buy from. For this tactic, I would watch 79% on TikTok Audience Network before putting more time or budget behind it.
Action plan
- Define one narrow startup segment where disable audience network to eliminate paid ad bot traffic can create a measurable lift.
- Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Ads channel.
- Use the evidence from wovly.ai to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
- Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: 79% on TikTok Audience Network.
- Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.
Source-backed example
Wovly deep-dive analysis of B2B paid advertising found provable bot traffic rates of 79% on TikTok Audience Network, 67% on Meta Audience Network, and 27% on Google Display Network.
Source: wovly.ai
GrowthDex source hub: wovly.ai
Last checked: March 25, 2026
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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
- Helped scale Tiki to 100M+ users.
- Doubled BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months.
- Raised OYO's direct booking share by 50% across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
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