Chitika is shutting down

ExperimentalSEO · Apr 18, 2019

"After 15+ years in business and millions of publisher relationships, Chitika is hereby shutting down. Our sincere thanks to all our publishers with whom we have enjoyed wonderful relationships over the years. We wish you the best of luck and success as you continue to grow your traffic and revenue."

http://support.chitika.com/customer/portal/articles/2973718-chitika-is-shutting-down

According to an unverified claim on Wikipedia, in 2017 Chitika raised the minimum payout threshold from $10 to $50 and then started banning publishers that reached $50.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitika#Delaying_and_denying_payments

EternalFun · Apr 18, 2019

U think they couldn't make enough profits for themselves and so shutting down?

seogiantking · Apr 18, 2019

It's first time I ever heard this network name.

meannn · Apr 18, 2019

Yeah i know them but they were legit as far as i know. They have minimum 0.1$ per click earning.

Starblazer · Apr 18, 2019

Around 10 years ago, they were among the most popular ad networks. Almost every blogger used to mention their name in the list of ad networks. Now you rarely find them in any blog posts. They failed to sustain their market. Probably exploited money from users and shutting down.

They are not paying money earned after Mar 1. This will be huge as they are not paying 1.5 months earnings of all of their customers. I guess they will relaunch with a different name using the profits.

Mr. Grinder · Apr 18, 2019

they are not shutting down my dude, just a break and coming with another branded names, this is the policy when your business have shit bad reputation, haha

theqlogic87 · Apr 18, 2019

deepdigger said:
they are not shutting down my dude, just a break and coming with another branded names, this is the policy when your business have shit bad reputation, haha

If another ad network shuts down in the coming months to a year I'll come to the conclusion that its Google cracking down on the competition, if not, what you stated is definitely not out of the question lol.

BrandingCat · Apr 18, 2019

theqlogic87 said:
If another ad network shuts down in the coming months to a year I'll come to the conclusion that its Google cracking down on the competition, if not, what you stated is definitely not out of the question lol.

I think they are just out gamed. Same thing over and over again without improve and constantly evolves on ads perspective.

Anyway was a shitty network.

Salamouna · Apr 18, 2019

RIP it was good even i didn't get paid anything from it but it was supporting me when i started

theqlogic87 · Apr 18, 2019

majdi107 said:
RIP it was good even i didn't get paid anything from it but it was supporting me when i started

They were one of the first ad networks I used as well. And yes, their site was shit @Meddie haha

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