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Inmobi Bot Traffic? (12)

05-15-2014 01:25 PM #1 jjonathan (Member)
Inmobi Bot Traffic?

It's been 5 months since I last used InMobi and started to run campaigns there again. In the past I had some serious bot traffic that was never refunded. The ad rep claimed that the system detects such clicks and doesn't bill us. Well, there's no way for me to know. Anyway, a similar trend happened today and I'm determined to get it refunded.

Does this look like bot traffic to you?

http://i.imgur.com/DdCFssh.png

The average CTR for the landers are optimized between 35-50%. Average CV is about 1.5%. This 3 subids have >80% CTR with 0 conversions. Smells like bot to me.

Anyone successfully got a refund for these type of traffic?

05-15-2014 02:05 PM #2 dario (Member)

Don't just look at your tracker, are you sure you paid for all those clicks?

05-15-2014 02:20 PM #3 jjonathan (Member)

Prety sure:
This particular AdGrp
4851 clicks, $48 spend
4870 clicks on Voluum.

So yeah, pretty sure those clicks are counted.

05-15-2014 05:45 PM #4 georgiecasey (Member)

a lot of the russians and chinese (no racist, that's who were doing it) over at http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/ were making big money doing this for their apps. this was last year though, i thought a network as big as inmobi would have caught on by now.

05-15-2014 10:48 PM #5 cosmeivan ()

Hey jjonathan, I just tried inmobi for a week with a few camps and noticed that every APP camp did terrible, compared to web traffic.

I wont take into account any recommendation for mobile traffic sources haha.

05-16-2014 04:22 PM #6 jjonathan (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by cosmeivan View Post
Hey jjonathan, I just tried inmobi for a week with a few camps and noticed that every APP camp did terrible, compared to web traffic.

I wont take into account any recommendation for mobile traffic sources haha.
Yeah well, unfortunately the majority of mobile traffic out there are app traffic

05-16-2014 04:54 PM #7 stackman (Administrator)

The right mobile networks will catch on to the SITEids sending bot traffic. Talk to them about it, if others complained about the same ID and they have some proof you'll get a refund hopefully.

07-19-2014 10:21 AM #8 alexpte (Member)

I know this topic is a couple of months old but I'm having real issues with Inmobi at the moment. Every time I check my tracker, there's a new siteID that's eating up budget with obviously bot traffic (no clicks through from the LP).

I usually catch them early and pause the campaign until the sitID is blocked, but there's no way of scaling when you have to wait for the rep to block placements. I've asked my rep for a whitelisted campaign instead of using a blacklist, but he's ignored the question so far.

Anyone got any ideas? It's frustrating because they have a lot of traffic in this geo and the good placements are performing well.

07-20-2014 07:38 AM #9 dario (Member)

to be able to manage independently the sources to block would be a game-changer feature of Inmobi, and a reason to go back to fund the account.

unfortunately they prefer to give such kind of misleading answers "We understand your concern but since we are a blind network we don't have such a feature at the moment but I know that our Product Team is working on how they can make it more efficient for our advertisers/ publishers and I will surely share your feedback on the system with the concerned team too."

I wrote misleading because being a blind network doesn't mean they can't allow me to stop my banners to show on certain sources. In fact they already allow me to do this. I'm just asking to do it autonomously.

Perhaps if every customer demanded this feature, they'll think about it.

07-20-2014 09:08 AM #10 snacks (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dario View Post
to be able to manage independently the sources to block would be a game-changer feature of Inmobi, and a reason to go back to fund the account.

unfortunately they prefer to give such kind of misleading answers "We understand your concern but since we are a blind network we don't have such a feature at the moment but I know that our Product Team is working on how they can make it more efficient for our advertisers/ publishers and I will surely share your feedback on the system with the concerned team too."

I wrote misleading because being a blind network doesn't mean they can't allow me to stop my banners to show on certain sources. In fact they already allow me to do this. I'm just asking to do it autonomously.

Perhaps if every customer demanded this feature, they'll think about it.
I resent this system at Inmobi, same process at Buzzcity. Stalls the whole workflow.

08-03-2014 07:58 PM #11 nt2000 (Member)

Dam wish I read this before depositing!

Has anyone made money running inmobi traffic?

10-18-2014 08:17 AM #12 mobxpert (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nt2000 View Post
Dam wish I read this before depositing!

Has anyone made money running inmobi traffic?
wondering the same for InMObi & BuzzCity. Both are difficult sources to work with.

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