Well you got fair warning. Last thing you should be worried about now is the network. Hope you didn't have any other successful campaigns.
I will not confirm where the network is based, yet anyway.
My manager told me the creatives / campaign in question would be pulled 2 hours ago and they're still live.
Network manager tells me "we will pull them as soon as they can."
It all seems a bit suspect, first they reduce my payout by 50% to try and prevent me from running, now they are reluctant to pause the campaign.
That's a far as I'm going to take it. I'll keep a file on hand just in case. I just wanted to confirm it is indeed Neverblue.
I've posted this on another popular aff marketing forums but...
I have recently discovered the affiliate network I was running a mobile offer through has ripped my creatives, lander and is running the campaign internally on all the same placements outbidding me.
I couldn't beleive it! I done some research and ran a reverse dns on the lander url and it shows 100s of offer urls from the network.
What would you do and what do you suggest i do?
No offense taken. We never have, never will compete with affiliates.(no offense maxbounty but I don't think it's you.)http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/165951-should-nitro_dee-banned.html
Nice relevant timing. It's all ok, they were just using OP's lander to build a case study:
Would you like to take your mobile ad campaigns to the next level?
Come to Neverblue and SiteScout's co-hosted Mobile Interact event in Toronto on October 18th.
SiteScout will be showing off the new mobile capabilities of their platform, including new targeting options and inventory sources, while Neverblue will be sharing insights on mobile campaigns, breaking open some case studies and answering questions from attendees. You'll also be able to network with other online marketing professionals in Toronto.
Food and drinks provided!
Date and Time: Oct 18, 2012 (7:00pm - 10:00pm)
Location: Firkin on King (461 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1K4, Canada)
Nice relevant timing. It's all ok, they were just using OP's lander to build a case study:
Would you like to take your mobile ad campaigns to the next level?
Come to Neverblue and SiteScout's co-hosted Mobile Interact event in Toronto on October 18th.
SiteScout will be showing off the new mobile capabilities of their platform, including new targeting options and inventory sources, while Neverblue will be sharing insights on mobile campaigns, breaking open some case studies and answering questions from attendees. You'll also be able to network with other online marketing professionals in Toronto.
Food and drinks provided!
Date and Time: Oct 18, 2012 (7:00pm - 10:00pm)
Location: Firkin on King (461 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1K4, Canada)
Nice relevant timing. It's all ok, they were just using OP's lander to build a case study:
Would you like to take your mobile ad campaigns to the next level?
Come to Neverblue and SiteScout's co-hosted Mobile Interact event in Toronto on October 18th.
SiteScout will be showing off the new mobile capabilities of their platform, including new targeting options and inventory sources, while Neverblue will be sharing insights on mobile campaigns, breaking open some case studies and answering questions from attendees. You'll also be able to network with other online marketing professionals in Toronto.
Food and drinks provided!
Date and Time: Oct 18, 2012 (7:00pm - 10:00pm)
Location: Firkin on King (461 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1K4, Canada)
Nice relevant timing. It's all ok, they were just using OP's lander to build a case study:
Would you like to take your mobile ad campaigns to the next level?
Come to Neverblue and SiteScout's co-hosted Mobile Interact event in Toronto on October 18th.
SiteScout will be showing off the new mobile capabilities of their platform, including new targeting options and inventory sources, while Neverblue will be sharing insights on mobile campaigns, breaking open some case studies and answering questions from attendees. You'll also be able to network with other online marketing professionals in Toronto.
Food and drinks provided!
Date and Time: Oct 18, 2012 (7:00pm - 10:00pm)
Location: Firkin on King (461 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1K4, Canada)
Nice relevant timing. It's all ok, they were just using OP's lander to build a case study:
Would you like to take your mobile ad campaigns to the next level?
Come to Neverblue and SiteScout's co-hosted Mobile Interact event in Toronto on October 18th.
SiteScout will be showing off the new mobile capabilities of their platform, including new targeting options and inventory sources, while Neverblue will be sharing insights on mobile campaigns, breaking open some case studies and answering questions from attendees. You'll also be able to network with other online marketing professionals in Toronto.
Food and drinks provided!
Date and Time: Oct 18, 2012 (7:00pm - 10:00pm)
Location: Firkin on King (461 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1K4, Canada)
Hi everyone. I'm OP's affiliate manager. This situation is being misrepresented and a lot of what has been written about is speculation.
A couple things:
-OP never submitted creatives to me.
-I did not see OP's creatives until this weekend when this whole thing blew up.
-NB's media buyers do not have access to any intelligence (referral links, etc.) on NB's affiliates.
-NB's media buyers use the standard scraping tools that all affiliates have access to, affiliate links are not tied to banners.
-The ads in question have been pulled.
-The affiliate's rate was reduced by the advertiser. For anyone who is skeptical about this, please understand that as an affiliate manager it is in my interest to protect the assets of the affiliate and do everything that I can to help him be successful with his campaigns. The rate reduction has nothing to do with squeezing him out.
-At the request of the advertiser, the offer in question was a private campaign for promotion by NB's media buyers only. I bent over backwards to get the campaign opened up for OP because I thought he would be successful with it. He started running the campaign with full knowledge that it was private, and already being run internally.
I haven't responded to this thread because we've been trying to handle this issue with the affiliate on an individual basis.
Regarding the event coming up in Toronto - I'm excited for the event! Off the back of this fiasco I might be walking into the lion's den. That's cool... Haha. Looking forward to meeting some people here, STMers especially. Feel free to come to me with any NB issues that you, your neighbor, or your neighbor's dog have.
I've worked with dozens of affiliates on this forum and hope to continue to. Up to this point I haven't gotten any negative feedback from what I've been able to provide. There are affiliates on this forum that I work with and have established solid, trusting, working relationships with. I hope those relationships won't be stressed by this mess. If anyone has any further questions or concerns please feel free to contact me @ skype: neverbluecole
I'm not sure if that reply from NB is real since I can't see it in this thread anywhere. Assuming it is real, why would NB media buyers be using scraping tools if they weren't planning on stealing IP of affiliates?NB's media buyers use the standard scraping tools that all affiliates have access to, affiliate links are not tied to banners.