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Isn't CPA Lead a content locking Incent network out of Vegas? I'm confused.

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Yes they are (or used to be) and a dodgy one indeed . Used to be the best content locker network until they struck a deal with FB and their lawyers. Pubs earning $xx,xxx /week automagically got C&D's from FB and their earnings kept by CPAlead. I would stay away

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Also:
The #1 Non-Incent CPA Network?
Really???

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From what I've heard from friends, you better stay away from this network.
They've been active in the incentive industry only though,

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I signed up to check out what they had. Got an email asking for a huge list of information. I get networks want to know about the affiliates they approve but he was asking for screenshots, financials, and everything just short of my social sec # and gf's nudie pics. I did not oblige.

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Did you know that in the ToS, it allows CPALead to sell your information to 3rd party?

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I can share my experience with them too.

I started my internet marketing journey 4-5 years ago with them being the first network I used. Back then I was doing incent (content locking). They always paid on time.

Then came the FB incident. I can confirm what @maximallimit says. Although I was lucky not to get a C&D myself I had friends who did. CPAlead got a very bad reputation because of that in the FB publishers circle (and I think 99% of their publishers were using FB at that time). We moved away to other networks.

I tried to work with them again locking some youtube videos or something and got my account banned because of copyright infringement terms bs. I didn't bother with a dispute since there wasn't a lot of money involved this time.

I haven't worked with them since, so I can't confirm on how they do business now.

P.S.: Good business lesson to be learned here. Some mistakes seem to hunt you for a long time and make it very hard to clean your reputation.

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There are two departments running now. We have non-incentive and incentive.

I'd like to clarify a lot has changed since 2006-2010. Pub's were running malicious and Blackhat campaigns and eventually things had to change and were removed due to breaking the Terms of Service. Since 2010 the ownership has changed hands.

We have only just started non-incentive in late 2014.

Yes you are correct that we have only been active in the incentive industry, however we have started up non-incentive verticals and this is the direction we are heading.

I'm not too sure which email you are discussing, I would need some clarification. We only request for certain information which is listed on the sign up form, anything other than that, then it ins't us.


We appreciate the feedback and value your opinions and if you have any further questions, please let me know.

Just so everyone knows, I'm an affiliate with CPAlead, and have been for a while. I have only just recently taken up a position within the company.

CPAlead never struck any sort of deal with FB.

The truth is, if something is legal and we receive legal correspondence, we'll always stand by our affiliate and make sure they are looked after. If they are guilty, however, then that means they've violated our TOS so regardless of any 3rd party letters we receive, we're the first to deal with them.

We do NOT sell the affiliate information to anyone. However, we have to include that since we could one day sell the company and that would include our list, that is what is meant by that clause.

Now, there may be advocates of other networks who see benefit in saying something negative but CPAlead has never missed a single payment and ALWAYS stood by affiliates if they follow the rules.

We will not work with anything that is illegal, deceptive or that includes something along the lines of racism, child abuse etc. We've come down hard on offenders there and any network should do so to protect their reputation and to protect their own affiliates.

Finally just to clarify:

New CPAlead: NON INCENTIVE based CPA Network
ContentLocking.com : Incentive based Content Locking

We have a great reputation, we recently sponsored ASW and the BHW show this past November. I would think anyone would be VERY hard pressed to find a single instance where anyone has had a bad experience in recent times.

You can take a look at the BHW thread where the company CEO goes into great detail about the transition, change of ownership and where CPAlead is today.

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I've got proof FB had direct access to pubs info through your platform so maybe FB went as low as hacking CPAlead's shit to get access if you say CPAlead never struck a deal with them. Who knows...

I agree pubs were breaking your TOS and FB's TOS by running BH apps or scripts but that was going with CPAlead's knowledge...so basically CPAlead was happy to cash in with pubs breaking their TOS and then cash in again ,when pubs got caught by FB, by not paying their money.

Anyway, as Tom said that was 4-5 years ago and maybe with the new ownership they've changed. Good luck mate

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I'd love to see the proof, not saying you're wrong, but I know that no deal took place.

That's a different story all together, most publishers were running campaigns that looked legit, however they turned out to be malicious/viral/abuse scripts and these broke the ToS.

Once they were caught, they were banned.

CPAlead has paid out over $200,000,000 so it's not something the company was doing to deceive users, it was just rules that were acted upon.

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Yes the whole company has changed dramatically and it's nothing as it was before. I wouldn't have been involved with them for so long if it wasn't a network I trusted.

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Actually that's a BS excuse. Everyone was doing it and CPAlead knew it very well. But until FB started to get upset there wasn't any problem or trying to "catch" them.

They also had a marketplace where these "abusive scripts" were sold. I understand that FB might asked them about the publisher info and to avoid problems (legal) they complied, but you can't claim they didn't know and that they weren't happy with the money. Actually it was a very win-situation for them allowing publishers to do that. They earned money. If FB had a problem, they disclosed the info, didn't get into any trouble, all risk free....hmm that doesn't sound right to do things...

Tom seems like a nice guy from what I've seem him reply on STM, and maybe CPAlead has changed, but everyone should know the full facts.

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Maybe CPAlead has changed?
Months ago a company called 12GMedia (Incentive) popped up. They said they'd have millions of funds.
A few months later the company disappeared, they DID pay the publishers though.
I have insight knowledge and know that 12GMedia was a creation by CPALead. Probably a marketing trick to make affiliates think it's another company.
Fact is that I was moderator at a well known forum and caught the Peter from CPALead logging in into the 12GMedia account. Also, 12GMedia brokered all offers from CPALead.
It's not really a scam but shows that they try everything to get publishers sending traffic to them. Not cool at all. I remember 12gMedia owned the URL fileice.com. Fileice LLC complaint and won the law suit as far as I know.
^ That's secret insight information from me that I think no one knows yet.
Tom, don't take it personal. I'm only speaking about the company CPALead. And fact is that CPALead IS a shady company.

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CPAlead is trash right now, the user saying they struck a deal with Facebook is correct, what came out of the deal remains unknown because both parties signed an NDA, you can Google the Facebook vs CPAlead court case and you can see that they made a deal, coincidently the majority of the publishers doing anything that was not up to Facebook standards (ahah) got a C&D, me included, no users were banned because of their promotions like Tom says. Tom did not exist up until last year, he shouldn't have anything to say about this, he does say it changed dramatically, that's correct, the staff and ownership changed and it kept going further down.

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Just checked out your dashboard. Tons of people are still doing Blackhat at CPAlead and you know it as well. At the marketplace there are even Blackhat viral scripts!

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Yes Tom, I have no complaints regarding payments during my highest times with CPAlead, infact with the old staff I was getting paid on a DAILY basis, every 6PM for a certain period of time, so eventho I got a C&D from FB, CPAlead never admited or penalized me in anyway. I did not openly admit to anything, I just openly laughed about what FB consideres to be their standards.

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Hi
Tom i think will be very hard to convince any of us, your old publishers, that you are running a legit business under the same name ..
Just to help you out here to see what CPaLead name stands for in our opinions .. we used this think Skype which helped us talk a lot and exchange opinions, scripts etc .. we kind of noticed that initially the threshold for getting a C&D and robbed was above 20k then your ancestors started getting greedy it got as low as 5k... by the time it got to 5k we new the spiel and we had to get the landers pre approved ... i had something running, more like zimmering for a very long time.. wasn't making much .. than one day i had something new that was making positive progress , the next 2 days it passed 5K at about 7pm and the lovely conversion BEEPing sound stopped .. a day or two later my own personal C&D came along with details blaming me for the campaign that was running for almost a year but nothing about the new campaign.
i did not bother more than talking the ex top con lawyer - ex pizza corner manger JohnSomehow where he proved to be an ass ..

As the cherry on top ... i know most of the guys including me were invited to join the network again under a different name... .. me personally banned out my account i still received emails from them for about a year after that.. They new everything .. they never been about the publishers ..


So the unlucky you coming here and try to brush stuff under the carpet make sure there is cavity to accommodate all that. good luck .. and sorry i don't like those blue and green colors anymore.

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So you weren't penalised, received all of your payments even though you were running blackhat methods and you weren't banned. I don't see the problem.

From what you've said, something along the lines of getting paid continually, up to $XX,XXX, and then before you were banned you made $5000 and it was removed?

I'm not trying to brush anything under the carpet, I'm just clarifying facts.

Majority of users got paid even though they openly admit to doing the wrong thing, and then CPAlead enforces certain rules due to the situation they were in and then the users obviously didn't like this but from I see, was needed.

Well, if anyone has any questions or disputes with being banned or having their earnings removed incorrectly, I'll be happy to look into it.

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Hey Tom, I've read that you created a how-to guide for creating Facebook accounts for advertising. I also understand this is a paid how-to. Would you be able to PM me the link to this? I would greatly appreciate it friend.

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