Adsterra are scammers. Beware!!!

r3L4x said:

My earnings lower as well, my best years whose 2019... I tested ton of ad
networks, none of them paid more. and a lot of networks won't accept adult traffic.

My best results is for mobile small banners.

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bro your stat is useless, their support is absent, I'll better work with monetag or any other network. Like I have the manager and the manager do not fu**ing care about me. Reply onse a few days.

Very prompt responses. I would better work with other players on the market, who at least care about their users.

r3L4x said:

No they just stopped my payment, I explained that I'm working with them very long time
and I don't have point on fraudulent traffic, that my traffic is legit. I asked them of IP`s
addresses for fraudulent traffic, offered them full cooperation of giving all screens
and etc to prove that I`m right.

After one week they sorted out and I'm continue working till this day. I earned from
them a lot of money.

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Maybie new accounts is on very big spyglass, I don't know just saying from my experience.

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spyglass? providing shit support I guess thats how they work. and block all the real traffic sources.

This is not first thread about Adsterra on BHW.
They really need to work on their system. It's not only about people felling scammed by them, but It's also famous network used for fraudulent activity and drain cash from them. I know people who put their banners in Android notification and drain their CPM.

Personaly? I cashed out few times, but now I have $1 below minimum payment and they decided to keep my $100 even I am not using network. Response time? Not exist, they reply after week or never

In my opinion they are honest, but their IT system is totaly crap, abused by many fraudulent actors, they panic and want to keep some control punishing innocent publishers.

Lukmat said:

This is not first thread about Adsterra on BHW.
They really need to work on their system. It's not only about people felling scammed by them, but It's also famous network used for fraudulent activity and drain cash from them. I know people who put their banners in Android notification and drain their CPM.

Personaly? I cashed out few times, but now I have $1 below minimum payment and they decided to keep my $100 even I am not using network. Response time? Not exist, they reply after week or never

In my opinion they are honest, but their IT system is totaly crap, abused by many fraudulent actors, they panic and want to keep some control punishing innocent publishers.

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their system and personal is completely crap, if you have 20-30 dollars daily consider working with other companies. At least they care about you us a customer

And the funniest part it is tons of fake reviews on trustpilot, it is really sign that network is scam

check any other legit network trustpilot - you'll see many bad reviews, the score will be around 3.5 on average, while those guys have almost 5 and tons of shitty reviews on forums like this

Bigray said:

Do you use banners ?

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Yes banners.

senselocation said:

bro your stat is useless, their support is absent, I'll better work with monetag or any other network. Like I have the manager and the manager do not fu**ing care about me. Reply onse a few days.

Very prompt responses. I would better work with other players on the market, who at least care about their users.

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I had 3 personal managers in skype, still have one. Just saying everything from my experience.

For curiosity checked similarweb traffic rank for Monetag: Global Rank #52,297 Worldwide,
traffic in month from 900k to 1mil. Adsterra: Global Rank #19,868 Worldwide, traffic in month
5.2mil.

This is roughly numbers, what this means that Adsterra is getting 5 times more traffic,
with this comes more advertisers, the more advertisers have network, more publishers can earn.
I`m all the time check network traffic first, later I check earnings. From my personal experience
Adsterra pays highest for banners.

Another thing I check Monetag what ad formats they provide, there is nowhere saying about
banner ads. They have only Vignette Banner, I hate like this banners, because sometimes it
pops and covers all screen, I love and had best experience with simple banner ads, as person
would only click if they interested in content. A lot of users is using Popunder then they cry for
low CPM and 0 earnings. Everybody knows that websites where you enter click one time and
you get redirected to 3 other pages. What you do? Close them immediately and every network
pays for conversions.

r3L4x said:

Yes banners.




I had 3 personal managers in skype, still have one. Just saying everything from my experience.

For curiosity checked similarweb traffic rank for Monetag: Global Rank #52,297 Worldwide,
traffic in month from 900k to 1mil. Adsterra: Global Rank #19,868 Worldwide, traffic in month
5.2mil.

This is roughly numbers, what this means that Adsterra is getting 5 times more traffic,
with this comes more advertisers, the more advertisers have network, more publishers can earn.
I`m all the time check network traffic first, later I check earnings. From my personal experience
Adsterra pays highest for banners.

Another thing I check Monetag what ad formats they provide, there is nowhere saying about
banner ads. They have only Vignette Banner, I hate like this banners, because sometimes it
pops and covers all screen, I love and had best experience with simple banner ads, as person
would only click if they interested in content. A lot of users is using Popunder then they cry for
low CPM and 0 earnings. Everybody knows that websites where you enter click one time and
you get redirected to 3 other pages. What you do? Close them immediately and every network
pays for conversions.

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Banner ads? bro, you better work with header bidding solely, if you are blocked by adsense or make your own banner rotation, I've tried their banner - all the time WOT, 0 result obviously.

Monetag is one of the players. That's one of the worst examples and still they have great support and rates.

another sing is that sometimes adsterra banners redirect users without click))))))) faced on my websites, so you place banner code and it works like banner and popuned. "legit network"

similarweb stat does not show anything, you can find 200-500k per month according to similar web network that has great support, clear and legit ads and somehow even makes you x2 in comparison with monetag or adsterra.

advertisers search for traffic and they do not use just one ad network, plus the more advertisers network has the more scam ads appear. like thats the base rule. there are many advertisers that go live with legit campaign, get verified and start redirecting to some virus bundles and etc

senselocation said:

Banner ads? bro, you better work with header bidding solely, if you are blocked by adsense or make your own banner rotation, I've tried their banner - all the time WOT, 0 result obviously.

Monetag is one of the players. That's one of the worst examples and still they have great support and rates.

another sing is that sometimes adsterra banners redirect users without click))))))) faced on my websites, so you place banner code and it works like banner and popuned. "legit network"

similarweb stat does not show anything, you can find 200-500k per month according to similar web network that has great support, clear and legit ads and somehow even makes you x2 in comparison with monetag or adsterra.

advertisers search for traffic and they do not use just one ad network, plus the more advertisers network has the more scam ads appear. like thats the base rule. there are many advertisers that go live with legit campaign, get verified and start redirecting to some virus bundles and etc

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Adult traffic is not allowed on Adsense. I lost from them my second payment witch whose 2400+ euros.
My account whose closed for adult content website. If you saying about direct link and banner ads,
yes I tested this method and it is not working, one, or few banners cannot fit for all traffic. Example: sexy girl
promoting something and after person clicks he is redirected to dog food store...

I dont care about support I only care about $$$ and usually best suport have low tear networks who
don't have a lot of publishers and they need them.

Yes this whose a problem 4 years ago, I contacted my managers and they fixed, from that time
I did not had this problem even on new websites with new tags.

I will gonna prove you with a facts that you wrote in here total nonsense. Who is the king of ad
networks? Adsense? Why? They have most traffic, they have biggest base of advertisers and publishers.
I have a friend who tried to make ad network he even found investors, the money amount they invested
in project whose gigantic. Either they whose running out of publishers and advertisers whose not getting
paid and quit, either they lost publishers and advertisers did not get traffic. Advertising network only
can survive if they managed to get decent amount of people who work in there. If Adsense from tomorrow
started accept all traffic including adult, other networks would go bankrupt in few months.
I think only for this reasons we have other ad networks as people searching alternatives after Adsense.
By the way if SimilarWeb stats are not good, ahref shows that Monetag getting 10x times leser
traffic then Adsterra.

Yes it depends on what online business you run and how much money you have. About scam...
It is again total nonsense... So this means tha Facebook and Adsense is full of scammers
who make money? Did you ever ordered advertising? You know that your campaign is truly
checked by people on any network and you cannot change url when ad it is live?

I'm earning money from IT, from 2005 years and know how everything works. I'm saying only
from my perspective, there is a ton of people one has bad experience with Adsterra, other with
other network and this is normal everybody have their point of view and experiences.

You mentioned before reviews.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/monetag.comMonetag: Reviews 3.6. 73 total reviews.
First review.
This Company is a big scam i lost $1500 with them
Hello people this network is a big scam, they gave you better earning few days then they lower them
too much and said we will recalculate but then they never so please be alert its a big scammers
company, a person who did scam with me was Giannis_Monetag
Date of experience: December 21, 2023

Adsterra: Reviews 4.4. 572 total reviews.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/adsterra.com

just checked

3.7M according to similar web with top geos: Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Mexico

Current network I use top geos are: United States and eu countries. :/

r3L4x said:

Adult traffic is not allowed on Adsense. I lost from them my second payment witch whose 2400+ euros.
My account whose closed for adult content website. If you saying about direct link and banner ads,
yes I tested this method and it is not working, one, or few banners cannot fit for all traffic. Example: sexy girl
promoting something and after person clicks he is redirected to dog food store...

I dont care about support I only care about $$$ and usually best suport have low tear networks who
don't have a lot of publishers and they need them.

Yes this whose a problem 4 years ago, I contacted my managers and they fixed, from that time
I did not had this problem even on new websites with new tags.

I will gonna prove you with a facts that you wrote in here total nonsense. Who is the king of ad
networks? Adsense? Why? They have most traffic, they have biggest base of advertisers and publishers.
I have a friend who tried to make ad network he even found investors, the money amount they invested
in project whose gigantic. Either they whose running out of publishers and advertisers whose not getting
paid and quit, either they lost publishers and advertisers did not get traffic. Advertising network only
can survive if they managed to get decent amount of people who work in there. If Adsense from tomorrow
started accept all traffic including adult, other networks would go bankrupt in few months.
I think only for this reasons we have other ad networks as people searching alternatives after Adsense.
By the way if SimilarWeb stats are not good, ahref shows that Monetag getting 10x times leser
traffic then Adsterra.

Yes it depends on what online business you run and how much money you have. About scam...
It is again total nonsense... So this means tha Facebook and Adsense is full of scammers
who make money? Did you ever ordered advertising? You know that your campaign is truly
checked by people on any network and you cannot change url when ad it is live?

I'm earning money from IT, from 2005 years and know how everything works. I'm saying only
from my perspective, there is a ton of people one has bad experience with Adsterra, other with
other network and this is normal everybody have their point of view and experiences.

You mentioned before reviews.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/monetag.comMonetag: Reviews 3.6. 73 total reviews.
First review.
This Company is a big scam i lost $1500 with them
Hello people this network is a big scam, they gave you better earning few days then they lower them
too much and said we will recalculate but then they never so please be alert its a big scammers
company, a person who did scam with me was Giannis_Monetag
Date of experience: December 21, 2023

Adsterra: Reviews 4.4. 572 total reviews.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/adsterra.com

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monetag is the same shit as adsterra. I currently work with another network and can really tell you that support service and earnings are not correlated in the way you are telling. adsterra pops rates are quite bad, monetag are bad as well. I wont share the network I use, but it generates x2 in comparison with those both.

checking network by using ahrefs this is a new level, ahaha, real kind of nonsense. with 10k bucks I can make you the best domain rating you could imagine, with big budgets it is very easy, so not the thing you want to check in order to pick the best network

i am in this business sinse 2011, i am telling you from my experience, I've tested and compared all top networks, and many small ones within those years. So trying to show me and others that adsterra is better because their domain authority is higher, similar web traffic is higher, reviews are better - does not prove anything. Most of reviews are fake, authority can be pushed with relatively small budgets comparing to what those networks earn, similar web does not show real traffic if it is not connected to google analytics by owner. Like I have website with monthly 200k, similar web shows that my traffic is 2m :/

And yeah, newtork that I use right now has average reviews, but real and like extremely good rates and clear ads, like so far no issues. And you won't find me writing the name of this pop network at all. I wont tell you as well, since my message was not about NETWORK#1 is better than adsterra. No, everything is better than adsterra in my opinion and experience. At least if you have some serious traffic from US, EU and CA. Mb for India, Pakistan and other low tier countries adsterra perform well according to similarweb geo stat, but for me high tier traffic other network generate x2.

If you like being treatet like shit, it is your moral/mental issues, not mine. if i make money for network i want to get good level support.

In conclusion, the fact that you tried run adsense with adult content and lost 2.4k tells everything about you But still I feel your pain and understand you. for real man

I ll call you adsterraboy from no, no offence. For sure there will be people that like adsterra or other low performing networks. It is absolutely normal and organic type of thing.

btw if you have adult traffic adsterra banners or native is literally the worst thing you can use, there are many networks with decent ads for adult websites. like networks that work only with adult native/banners and they have great creatives, ad campaigns and etc.


good luck with adsterra, other guys I suggest test at least 5 networks (ideally 7-10) each for at least week, pick the best performing and make a larger split tests, pick the best and decide. That how it was done by me

Oh, sorry about your situation. I would recommend to avoid adsterra as they shave your imps, showing fake cpms. Also they have malaware and viruses in their creatives and sometimes even several creatives in one(and to you they will show 1)

strawberrry said:

Oh, sorry about your situation. I would recommend to avoid adsterra as they shave your imps, showing fake cpms. Also they have malaware and viruses in their creatives and sometimes even several creatives in one(and to you they will show 1)

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yeah, they also show pop ads if you install banner codes and it really happens randomly, i dunno the logic, sometimes i was able to see pop code, sometimes not. my users argued about pop as well when i have installed their banners. i can suppose that legit networks do not do business in this way

regarding the malware, i would doubt they are making this intentionally, but who knows especially if you take in regard other scam, but mostly in all networks time to time some malware appear, but at least in my experience it was blocked right aways after my reports and advertiser was blocked.

finally, all they care about is your money, so it is betteer to find someone who can really think about your website(s) and user experience, apart from only money

senselocation said:

bro your stat is useless, their support is absent, I'll better work with monetag or any other network. Like I have the manager and the manager do not fu**ing care about me. Reply onse a few days.

Very prompt responses. I would better work with other players on the market, who at least care about their users.

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But at least people like OP are doing right thing by exposing the network. At least other members on the forum will stay away from the network.

michaeldalby said:

I’ve just been scammed by @HighStakesAds and @andryllbh both offered cloaking took my money and stopped replying, I have screen shots as prove , stay well away from both

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as with my other replies, please check this thread - https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/beware-there-is-a-fake-account-on-tg-of-me.1564801/
there are impersonators of me

r3L4x said:

No they just stopped my payment, I explained that I'm working with them very long time
and I don't have point on fraudulent traffic, that my traffic is legit. I asked them of IP`s
addresses for fraudulent traffic, offered them full cooperation of giving all screens
and etc to prove that I`m right.

After one week they sorted out and I'm continue working till this day. I earned from
them a lot of money.

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Maybie new accounts is on very big spyglass, I don't know just saying from my experience.

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How do you get this traffic?

senselocation said:

yeah, they also show pop ads if you install banner codes and it really happens randomly, i dunno the logic, sometimes i was able to see pop code, sometimes not. my users argued about pop as well when i have installed their banners. i can suppose that legit networks do not do business in this way

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senselocation said:

finally, all they care about is your money, so it is betteer to find someone who can really think about your website(s) and user experience, apart from only money

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senselocation said:

regarding the malware, i would doubt they are making this intentionally, but who knows especially if you take in regard other scam, but mostly in all networks time to time some malware appear, but at least in my experience it was blocked right aways after my reports and advertiser was blocked.

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senselocation said:

regarding the malware, i would doubt they are making this intentionally

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They just don't check their offers and they advertisers I guess

Bigray said:

Adsterra sent me an email that my traffic is suspicious that I should send proof of traffic which I did.

Is been 3 days and am yet to see my next payment schedule, each time I contact them they'll give me the same response that their traffic department is still monitoring my traffic.
I was supposed to get paid today but few days ago they removed the payment schedule for 16/17th.

They stole my $387, I guess they were waiting for me to accumulate $500 before closing the account, scammers.

Today they closed my account without a valid reason.
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Hello @Bigray !

We work with thousands of publishers all around the world and there are good cases here on BHW as well from our publishers. Such cases do happen, and we have an appeal procedure.

Please use this link to submit your appeal form: https://appeal.adsterra.com/publishers

super_power said:

I got 5-6k clicks to dating startling, zero conversions. My other traffic source converts 1/10. Adsterra just zero. I asked for a refund of the unspent amount which is $93. Took them about 30 days to send it back. When depositing it took them a day, when refunding took a month lol. Pure bots traffic. Even popunder traffic from other networks converts better. Here it was their social bar (like banners) traffic and its a total waste. Happy they at least sent a refund after a month. Never again will I try their traffic.

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Looks like they are incompetent. How did you drive dating traffic to them? What I mean is where do you get your dating traffic?

I heard a lot of good and bad things about adsterra. I feel like there are a lot of diverse opinions on them since they just accept all kinds of publishers.