Why do you guys run mellowads? are they aware you are running there ads on your network? I believe this is against there TOS I have reported this to mellowads
Hi! Yes, mellowads support is aware that we are running their ads for those moments when there are few ads at us. We have a partnership with them. Regards. No you do not have any special partnership with them, all you did was add your website like any other publisher and that was it I will let them know, we will see what they say Hi! Please, by any means, contact them. Regards. As one of the admins for Mellow Ads I just wanted to confirm what the Coinzilla.io admin has said here about our partnership. We are very happy with this at the moment as the quality of traffic provided by Coinzilla is compatible with the high standards that we expect from our direct publishers. Additionally, for information - below is a copy of a conversation we have just had with the admin of adsbit.net (a different small ad network) via our direct support channel. Coinzilla.io - please remove this if you are not happy to have it here and I can post in a separate thread. Important to note... 1) MA and Coinzilla are not owned by the same people. Other than the partnership described above - we are not related. 2) I have excluded some bits from dubs reply were he is abusing some of our publishers - for obvious reasons. dubs rays (Today 12:43)Why would you remove adsbit.net but not coinzilla.io? Lets hear this great excuse, both ad networks running your ads across entire network, you ban one but keep the other, do you also own coinzilla is that why you didn't ban it? Mellow Ads Support (21 minutes ago)Hi Thanks for getting in touch - finally! (It would have been helpful if you'd done so before attempting to "re-sell" our ads) We don't own Coinzilla but we have been in discussions with them about the partnership. They essentially use MA for "backfill" - so we have a bespoke system set up for them, which ensures that we can continue to control and maintain the quality of the traffic across our network. A few days ago during our ongoing security/fraud checking procedures we discovered that you were using MA and that the quality of the traffic was extremely low - essentially fraudulent - providing very little value to our advertisers. This is why we removed you from the network, consistent with how we deal with other fraudulent publishers.
Hope that explains it clearlydubs rays (6 minutes ago)Are you kidding me? We approve each publisher manually and check with Alexa and Similiarweb, you are full of shit about coinzilla being in some bespoke system you setup blah blah, I will make sure people are aware you own coinzilla as well, funny thing is 80% of the sites on adsbit are also on mellowads so how does that work? so you have extremely low essentially fraudulent traffic as well? bottom line is you own coinzilla as well and it's obvious to see. Also you did not run no security/fraud check it was called out by some member on bitcointalk, stop talking all smart, you have no idea who you're talking too! I'm not stupid
Now go fuck yourself with your bullshit, mother fucker I will soon make a topic exposing all websites in the top 5 pages, exposing your fake network
A class act
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Just to let you know that as of today we have decided to discontinue this ANN thread as an official forum thread for Mellow Ads. This decision was taken to ensure that we can concentrate our resources on providing a first class bitcoin advertising system. When Mellow Ads first started out we found that this was a good place to promote the new service and provide quick replies to support issues. However we have now outgrown this and it is just not feasible for us to provide a satisfactory level of support via such a forum thread - this is hopefully obvious given the number of negative posts recently. For the near future we will continue to give prompt support to genuine support issues via email at support@mellowads.com. Longer term we are looking at providing a more comprehensive support system (e.g. FAQ, Support Tickets, Dedictaed Forum etc). Our policy is not to even engage with trolls, timewasters or hackers/scammers and this policy will continue as we just don't have the time/resources to waste on that. We are grateful for all the positive support that we do get from our many happy advertisers and publishers, and are fully committed to continuing to build and improve Mellow Ads into the future Kind Regards Mellow Ads
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Just a quick message to try to counter some of the nonsense posts that are being made in this thread. Mellow Ads is not dying, has not been abandoned and is not a scam or cheating anyone. We are constantly working hard to maintain and improve the system - and we are bringing on board new publishers and advertisers every day. Views and impressions are increasing steadily - now over 4 billion ad impressions were served last month. And we paid out over 150 BTC to publishers in that same period. This is all happening despite a determined and sustained attempt to bring Mellow Ads down via numerous "attacks". The latest DDOS attack happened last week - this affected access to the system and ad serving. We believe that we are getting on top of this now but obviously fighting this has been a huge drain on our small team. Along with this we are seeing a number of negative messages posted about our service (here and elsewhere) by either competitor ad networks, angry people who have been kicked off the system for trying to cheat/scam or just plain trolls. We are not interested in getting into discussion/arguments with these people in this ANN thread in particular. Our aim is for Mellow Ads to continue being the number 1 bitcoin ad network and is here to stay
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that the network/space/campaign stats are all lagging behind a little bit currently but they will catch up over the next couple of hours Why are you always rejecting my website when I add it? The reason is: It is not Top 1 Million Alexa Ranking but It is not true, today's rank is 542,120 you can confirm that at: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptobtcs.com#trafficstatsI already sent you an e-mail with no response yet. Sorry about that, we've had a few problems over the last few days so this must have slipped through somehow - or maybe the Alexa API that we use is giving the wrong details for some reason. Anyway, please re-submit your site for approval and I will get it approved as soon as possible. I have just re-submited. I work with Alexa's Certified Stats in order to track my stats better (By buying Monthly Premium Membership), so the Alexa API you use can't recognize Alexa's Certified Ranking. Please do not reject my website again I will ask Alexa about that API. Ok great, thanks for re-submiting. The API we use is the official Alexa API ( https://aws.amazon.com/alexa/), and we pay for that service so it should provide the most accurate data. The last 4 times we queried the API for your domain it came back with the results... 2016-05-14 18:54:00 Rank: 1470250 2016-05-15 20:58:13 Rank: 1473109 2016-05-16 08:12:25 Rank: 1473109 2016-05-17 23:13:14 Rank: 1425484 ...which is why it was rejected automatically. Once it comes back with < 1 million and then we do our usual manual checks then it will be approved so long as it also meets our other Website Approval Guidelines
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that the network/space/campaign stats are all lagging behind a little bit currently but they will catch up over the next couple of hours Why are you always rejecting my website when I add it? The reason is: It is not Top 1 Million Alexa Ranking but It is not true, today's rank is 542,120 you can confirm that at: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptobtcs.com#trafficstatsI already sent you an e-mail with no response yet. Sorry about that, we've had a few problems over the last few days so this must have slipped through somehow - or maybe the Alexa API that we use is giving the wrong details for some reason. Anyway, please re-submit your site for approval and I will get it approved as soon as possible.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that the network/space/campaign stats are all lagging behind a little bit currently but they will catch up over the next couple of hours
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Just a quick update on the service problems we have had over the last 48 hours.
We have been under a heavy and sustained DDOS attack over this period which has caused a couple of short outages (roughly 20 mins yesterday and 15 mins today) and ad delivery being slow or failing intermittently. Analysis of our logs show that most ads (over 98%) are still being delivered successfully but obviously we want this to be 100% as it is usually. Fortunately we have strong DDOS protection in place but this can only help to a certain level.
Please accept our apologies for the issues and be assured that we are working around the clock to try to ensure the service remains up until the attack is over.
Regards Mellow Ads
UPDATE Mellow Ads is back up and running now, and we are hopefully over the DDOS issues. Please accept our sincere apologies for the downtime and slow/failed ad serving during the last few hours in particular. Although we don't have any sort of Service Level Agreement or fixed up-time commitment we have made the following adjustments to compensate for these problems... 1) All active network daily campaigns have been extended by 12 hours - this more than makes up for the system downtime 2) CPM/CPC campaigns won't really be effected - they just won't have received many views/clicks during the downtime - but will still get the amount that have been bought 3) For publishers... - you will still get your proportional share of the network pool for today, even though your ad spaces would not have been showing ads all the time - so you shouldn't lose out there - you will benefit from (1) above because that means these campaigns will remain in the network pool for an extra 12 hours Thanks again for your patience and support during these problems Mellow Ads
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Are daily payouts happening soon?
The payout process is running right now, so they should be done within the next hour
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Just a quick update on the service problems we have had over the last 48 hours.
We have been under a heavy and sustained DDOS attack over this period which has caused a couple of short outages (roughly 20 mins yesterday and 15 mins today) and ad delivery being slow or failing intermittently. Analysis of our logs show that most ads (over 98%) are still being delivered successfully but obviously we want this to be 100% as it is usually. Fortunately we have strong DDOS protection in place but this can only help to a certain level.
Please accept our apologies for the issues and be assured that we are working around the clock to try to ensure the service remains up until the attack is over.
Regards Mellow Ads
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I do have a bitcoin related facebook group and i can give traffic from there, do you have direct link option? I also wanted to know if you accept blogspot.com blogs, I do have this blog for a long time, it just have few articles on it but definitely original content, i wrote them myself.
Sorry we only allow our ads to be shown on a website that you own/run, so you can't put them on a facebook group or page. Also your site must have its own domain name and not be hosted on a subdomain of hosting domains such as wix, blogspot, wordpress, yola, doodlekit, faucetfly etc. This is all covered on our website approval guidelines
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What is happening with clicks and impressions today? seems like the network is shaving clicks and impressions, I am down 75% in clicks today for no apparent reason, what is going on?
Nothing is being "shaved". We had some system problems earlier which means the stats are a little behind - but they will catch up over the next few hours. By the end of the day (UTC) they will be all be correct before we do the daily payment calculations.
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This is fixed, sorry about that. You should be able to request the withdrawal again now
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Mellow Ads: Support for more ad space sizes!As of today (11 May) we have added in support for 4 popular ad space sizes... Large desktopThese ad spaces should attract lots of attention from advertisers and potentially good click through rates... - Large Square (250 x 250)
- Super Leaderboard (970 x 90)
Mobile compatibleThese ad spaces will work nicely on smaller mobile screens... - Mobile Banner (320 x 50)
- Large Mobile Banner (320 x 100)
Thanks Mellow Ads
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why mellowad still holds money of bonusbitcoin for the time their adsense died? its already time
Sorry I don't really understand your question Mellow Ads doesn't hold any money for Bonus Bitcoin. Bonus Bitcoin is paid its share of the network pool etc every day, the same as all our other publishers. We aren't associated with AdSense at all. dont u own bonusbitcoin.co website? they are on same script. and they are holding part of funds of peopel claiming they are not making money due to adsense freeze. if they are your publisher - you should solve this. They stated in on January and wanted to fix in few days - now 4 months passed. Stop paying this scammers or make them pay to people. None of this is really relevant to Mellow Ads. Yes, Bonus Bitcoin was developed by one of the developers involved with Mellow Ads, thats probably why you think there are some similarities in the "script". But they are run completely independently of each other - so Bonus Bitcoin earns advertising revenue from Mellow Ads in the same way that all other publishers do. If they violate any of our publisher criteria (see Website Approval Guidelines) then they will be removed from our network and we will stop paying them. We have to apply this criteria fairly to everyone. I've just manually checked again and I can't see that there is any problems - and they are continuing to payout to users, albeit at a lower rate than when they also used Adsense alongside Mellow Ads. As I said before, we aren't related to Adsense in any way - so we can't "solve" anything to do with an Adsense freeze for this publisher or any others.
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why mellowad still holds money of bonusbitcoin for the time their adsense died? its already time
Sorry I don't really understand your question Mellow Ads doesn't hold any money for Bonus Bitcoin. Bonus Bitcoin is paid its share of the network pool etc every day, the same as all our other publishers. We aren't associated with AdSense at all.
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How can I find out when I am paid for network CPC or CPM? Is it included in the Daily Network Payout?
Yes, it is included in the daily network payment
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Publishers: Important changes to Mellow Ads daily network payment calculationsAs you are probably aware, previously we calculated each publishers share of the daily network pool based solely on the number of UNIQUE VIEWS (impressions) that your ad spaces provide to the network during each day. Based on feedback from our advertisers and our own analysis we have decided to adjust this to also take into account UNIQUE CLICKS. Therefore ad spaces that provide more unique clicks as well as impressions will now earn a larger share of the network pool. With this in mind, and also the recent introduction of Network CPM/CPC campaigns we strongly recommend that publishers take the following steps to ensure they are earning as much as possible through Mellow Ads... 1) Use the larger and more popular ad space sizes were possible - these will attract more advertisers and better click through rates. The most popular sizes preferred by advertisers are: - Full Banner: 468 x 60 - Leaderboard: 728 x 90 - Medium Rectangle: 300 x 250 - Large Rectangle: 336 x 280 - Wide Skyscraper: 160 x 600 - Square: 200 x 200 2) Position your ad spaces in prominent locations, preferably above-the-fold* Again this will attract more advertisers to start CPM/CPC campaigns in your spaces, and will usually get higher click volumes. 3) Ensure you have CPM and CPC rates set for all your ad spaces. Doing this will mean that you are eligible to earn from both network and direct CPM/CPC campaign - in addition to the daily network pool. PLEASE NOTE: As always, we will continue to monitor our logs and data closely to ensure that publishers do not attempt to abuse/cheat the system. In particular we are always on the look out for non-genuine views/clicks. The overriding aim here is to ensure that advertisers are receiving good value for their campaigns. If you in any doubts then please always make sure you are in compliance with our Website Approval Guidelines. *Above the fold: positioned in the upper half of a web page and so visible without scrolling down the page.
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I want to ask is earnings depends on ad size, or it doesn't matter and I got the same earning for each size of add?
Not directly, but please see our new announcement below...
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If I override the style of ads will my earnings drop? or does that not matter?
It shouldn't really matter too much - but depending on how you override it may affect how it attracts interest from your site visitors, and affect your click through rate
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Is it possible for you to add a way for us publishers to get an email when one of our ad spaces is sold?
Thanks
I've added this onto our development backlog, not sure when we'll get around to it but its a good idea
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