I. Fucking. Hate. Media.Net
I'm even going to tell you why.
They first contacted me out of the blue (first warning sign) about advertising on a big site of mine (100k+ impressions/day), I figured I'd give them some impressions to try it and see how it goes.
It was performing pretty shit so I complained saying I'd scrap the test unless they could improve the CPMs, then my account manager sends me an e-mail asking for a list of my most searched keywords so that they can improve the ad targeting. I send a list of 10 KWs (as it was no big secret where my traffic was coming from - at least not the top 10-20 search phrases).
Then he tells me that because of the content of my site he has to pull the advertising all together.
WTF. You contact me and then say the content isn't in the guidelines?
Since then they have contacted me on 12 separate occasions asking to advertise on similar sites. That's right, I've already got an account there - yet they continue to send me e-mails asking me to sign up other sites of mine. One time three separate people contacted me about the same site. These are all sites which I should add break their quality guidelines.
I've told them to fuck off numerous times, but it doesn't seem to be working. So this is my fuck you to media.net.
My Charity Pledge
If you're currently using media.net and give them the ditch, I will donate either: $25 to kiva.org OR $50 to a registered Australian charity of your choosing (tax purposes is the reason for the differential). Just post something verifying that you were using them and are no longer.
If this post ranks first page for media.net I'll donate another $100 to kiva.org, top3 and we'll make it $500.
For every email media.net continues to send me, I'll donate another $100 to an Australian charity.
I'm tapping this out at $2,000 in donations.
I'm even going to tell you why.
They first contacted me out of the blue (first warning sign) about advertising on a big site of mine (100k+ impressions/day), I figured I'd give them some impressions to try it and see how it goes.
It was performing pretty shit so I complained saying I'd scrap the test unless they could improve the CPMs, then my account manager sends me an e-mail asking for a list of my most searched keywords so that they can improve the ad targeting. I send a list of 10 KWs (as it was no big secret where my traffic was coming from - at least not the top 10-20 search phrases).
Then he tells me that because of the content of my site he has to pull the advertising all together.
WTF. You contact me and then say the content isn't in the guidelines?
Since then they have contacted me on 12 separate occasions asking to advertise on similar sites. That's right, I've already got an account there - yet they continue to send me e-mails asking me to sign up other sites of mine. One time three separate people contacted me about the same site. These are all sites which I should add break their quality guidelines.
I've told them to fuck off numerous times, but it doesn't seem to be working. So this is my fuck you to media.net.
My Charity Pledge
If you're currently using media.net and give them the ditch, I will donate either: $25 to kiva.org OR $50 to a registered Australian charity of your choosing (tax purposes is the reason for the differential). Just post something verifying that you were using them and are no longer.
If this post ranks first page for media.net I'll donate another $100 to kiva.org, top3 and we'll make it $500.
For every email media.net continues to send me, I'll donate another $100 to an Australian charity.
I'm tapping this out at $2,000 in donations.
. 
