Thursday, April 7, 2011

AdMob account disabled after years of usage (and funding)

We are one of the recent "group disabling" activities of Admob.


We have 9 apps with AdMob, which generate over 8 Million monthly impressions per month. We use these impressions to launch mobile marketing campaigns for reputable brands, actually --very-- reputable brands. Additionally, we paid AdMob over $3,000 to purchase ads on their network as well. What's funny is that we disabled cpc ads (we don't generate any revenue from AdMob, we sell the ad space our selves).


Yesterday, our account was disabled with no notice whatsoever. We lost the $3,000 we paid to AdMob, we lost our 9 Million monthly impressions, lost access to the ad space in all of our apps, and all our campaigns have all been stopped, our end clients are extremely angry and starting to sue us.


This is by far the worst unprofessional act I have experienced in the media industry.


Please, we need to make our voice heard.

A step by step guide on how to get screwed by AdMob


This is a 10 step guide on how to get screwed by AdMob --- based on an actual experience.

1. Invest heavily in developing addictive iPhone and Android apps with great content.

2. Integrate these apps with AdMob's platform, and start serving over 8 Million monthly impressions.

3. Attract reputable brands and launch regional mobile marketing campaigns for them that rely on your apps advertising space.

4. Add funds to your AdMob account to further expand the campaign and place ads not only on your apps but also on AdMob's premium network.

5. Get your account deactivated by AdMob suddenly without any notice, resulting in having all of your campaigns halted, and losing access to all of your apps advertising space

6. Get angry calls from advertising agencies and brands that have signed contracts with you, try to convince them it is a technical problem but fail at doing so.

7. Get sued.

8. Try to contact AdMob by phone but then realize there is no phone support line.

9. Send a professional e-mail to Admob's support, forum managers, and high-level employees, and get absolutely no feedback. 

10. Get screwed, and try to find new ways to pay the salaries of your recently hired employees , which were mainly funded by revenues of your mobile marketing campaigns.