PropellerAds Reviews and Testimonials

I wrote a previous POSITIVE review for this network, which was very accurate at the time, but my experience with them in the last year or so has changed dramatically, to the point where I no longer use them. The problems weren't isolated to one issue, it quickly became an accross the board issue.

For one - The payout rate plummetted ... for the exact same traffic, same sources, same behaviors etc CPM's dropped from an average of nearly $18 to $0.02

On attempt to get this fixed, had reached out to my account manager - who seemed, strangely, to have even fewer answers than I did. Attempted some ad unit optimization technniques that were suggested - saw no improvement, and after following up with them to resolve this after the first attempt wasw unsuccessful, they appear to be ignoring my emails and support tickets.

Ad Quality, Frequency and Reporting: Their ads got WAY too aggressive (pops and interstitials) and they were CLEARLY not following directions on frequency capping like they CLAIMED to be - as my visitors were ending up, for all intents and purposes, feeling like they were getting "Jumped" when they came to my site - on the first mouse action, a flurry of popups, pop unders and reidrects would ensue, most of which had some sort of action that disabled the back button functionality or imparied it at the least, bombarded them with fake virus warnings, BS "reminders" to download updaes to well known software (not from the manufacturer) - as well necessitating something like 50+ rapid-fire clicks of the back arrow or even a new tab and closing that one altogether in order to get back to seeming safety, only to be snatched up and dragged into that shoving back and forth between re-directs and pops while trying desparately to escape all over again on the next mouse click (as I said - it was as if they were getting jumped by a pack of bullies) - on top of that - Even despite the abusive experience their OVER advertizing created, they still had the nerve to (laughably) UNDER-REPORT Ad views.

With ads that behave like that, and 5,000 or more visits in a day, they would try to tell me that they only showed roughly 150 ads...Total... That doesn't check out considering I've witnessed these attack ad flurries nade they themselves appear to show that many ads lol so I'm doubting highly that as aggressive as they are and as engaged as my site visitors ar, that would suddenly change so drastically. Doesn't add up..