Honestly know what you're getting into with Adversal. I only have a few banner & rectangle ads on my website and I made sure to disable every option that would interfere with the user experience. As you can see, Note that I'm only using banners and rectangle display ads. No popunders or anything. I thought all was good, despite the low CPM rates. But I was completely unaware of one thing. Just found out from my visitors that it redirects every SINGLE page on a mobile phone via linkbucks. EVERY LINK, EVERY POST. This is outrageous and highly unprofessional. Not to mention the eCPM I was getting was $0.06 at best. So basically, this is fraud. Don't use them unless you wanna bombard your visitors with stupid redirects on mobile phones for chump change. I even had a couple instances when I saw a popup upon page load on my desktop - when I have completely disabled all that! It was only twice but still! It shouldn't even happen once! I'm sorry. I'm done here. If anyone knows any CLEAN advertising agencies that don't use shady tactics, please let me know.
Thank you for sharing this information. I was reading something about it like you wrote, that's not first time I saw something like it.
agreed... and want to add that most of this kind of advertising companies will give nothing for earnings because they all show ads that basicaly nobody wants to see...
Thanks for sharing. I haven't used them personally but i read quite a lot good reviews about them here on DP. The revenue is really very low for 40k impressions. Worst thing they could do is redirection.
Adversal does not permit ads like this on its network, period. The proper way to handle a situation like this is to report it to support first, which you did not do, so that we can resolve it. Contact us at the email address listed in your account so that we can gather the relevant information, locate the malicious creative, and remove it. -Kyle
I have contacted you before some months and your answer was "let the system better know your traffic" that's mean let the system f... you lol. Stop to rip webmasters.
Not sure what that means in this context, but nobody from this company would ever give you advice like that when dealing with an unwanted ad. OP, contact support. -Kyle
I sent you guys an email before creating this thread. But you havent replied yet, which is fine considering it's the weekend. And if this was a genuine mistake off you guys, then my bad. I might be jumping to conclusions here. We'll see how it goes. I'll keep you guys posted.
To be fair, I have the same situation and have reported it dozens of times. Every time I am told it is being looked into, but it never changes. It isn't an advertiser issue, because he is right on mobile these things happen 100% of the time.
Actually, advertisers are the only thing it could be. Some unscrupulous advertisers will maliciously hide remote redirect code in their banners. But if this is the case, we just need a few relevant details so that we can find the responsible party and remove them. We have several safeguards in place to prevent this type of behavior, and in many cases, offenders are removed before they can get started. -Kyle
Then the issue is likely elsewhere, which is the case in many of the reports we receive of this nature. To locate the source, take all of the remote code that you have on your website and paste each piece on it's own blank page. Then load up each page separately to see which one replicates the issue. The top culprits are usually: an infected website template, hit counters, ad networks, and other dynamic content that is remotely generated. -Kyle
Its fine really. I just don't serve adversal ads to my mobile users. But I have done all that testing, I am positive the problem is your banner. I remove your banner, the issue goes away and happens not at all, I add your banner back the issue returns immediately. Test it on it's own blank page, same thing. Your banner it happens, different content no problem. Now I just wish your rates would stabilize. They have been all over the place for the last week.
Nothing is going to be stable around and after new years. Usually after the holidays rates across the industry drop and by late january they begin to pick up as companies start posting their first quarter budgets and start going live on new campaigns.
If you've pasted our ad code on a blank page by itself and have witnessed this behavior, then email us the details so that we can take care of it. As previously noted, we don't allow for these types of ads on our network. -Kyle
On the contrary to most of the opinions posted here, I have had very good experience with Adversal in general, and Kyle in specific. I had a couple of issues with them initially, - contacted their support (via e-mail) and got prompt and satisfactory response. I am with Adversal for well over a year now and frankly, never even thought of removing their ad tags. I have no issues with redirects (desktop/mobile/tab users), receive beter eCPM rates compared to any other CPM network and most importantly, I get paid dot on time - like a clock. That's the reason, I always recommend fellow webmasters to try them out - whenever someone asks me for an opinion. Two CPM networks I highly respect are Adversal and Fidelity Media. Period. Just my 2 cents.