Stay away....
I gave them the benefit of the doubt even though when I searched their name I found nothing but negative feedback about them. They are a new ad agency offering affiliate programs and CPM advertising with the "Axill Strip"
Well I was actually approached by them through email (never had an ad agency email me before) and I did a quick search on them and decided to give them a run, even though I read several negative comments about their affiliate programs I didn't find anything negative about their CPM advertising.
Since I run a forum site (which most ad agencies besides google won't let you run ads) I went ahead and threw them in my extra inventory. The ads according to my tracking program were being displayed over 4000 impressions a day, and I let it go for a week. I then login to Axill to find that they have only given me credit for 1467 impressions, a completely bogus number. I emailed the representative and he told me the stats build up over 24 hours, but it didn't matter as I had been running the ads a week and had recorded over 24,000 impressions all from US / Canadian based traffic (95% of my traffic is from the US and Canada)
So basically there is no way they are recording correctly, and I just thought I'd put out a warning because I've seen they are contacting other webmasters through email and there is no way anyone should use them, it is basically stealing your inventory and reporting a fraction of what you actually serve.
Sorry for the rant, but I hate when companies false report, especially when they contact you for advertising. Word to the wise: Never use an ad agency other than the big established ones if they contact you through email. Although that probably won't happen as they don't go looking for publishers like small shady companies do.
Last edited by RideConnection; 01-03-2006 at 02:41 PM..
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