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The article has since been updated, now it mentions $13.04 per 1000 views:

>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average payout of $13.04 per thousand faked views.

> $13.04 per thousand faked views

I thought the usual payout was an order of magnitude lower than that.

Something like 1$ per thousand views

Probably $13.04 is what network takes for 1k views... publishers get scraps

I seriously doubt the order of magnitude is right.

I'd really like someone with monetized videos to give some real input on this.

I used to work on an online video platform where we were selling some 30-second unskippable video ads for £20CPM, so order of magnitude seems right to me

I think 13.04 would be the CPM, not per view. I'm not sure if that's high or low for video ads, but wanted to stress that number isn't per view. If it was, they would have made slightly more than $5mil. :)

Clickfarm workers should unionise...

Their usual pay is around 5 USD per hour here in Russia

It's a CPM man. Not per view.

CPM = Cost Per Thousand Impressions (not views)