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WhatsApp is complaining to every single offer owner and threatening legal action (10)

03-31-2015 08:46 PM #1 dario (Member)
WhatsApp is complaining to every single offer owner and threatening legal action

What is your opinion about this message I got from an affiliate network?

"Anyone running a niche related to WhatsApp needs to be stopped due to ongoing advertiser complaints. WhatsApp is complaining to every single offer owner and threatening legal action, so we must end this. Please understand, you cannot promote any WhatsApp niche in any capacity - this is at any affiliate network, not just us. No network can currently do this niche and neither can we."

03-31-2015 09:10 PM #2 arjun (Member)

Hey Dario - Which network sent this out?

03-31-2015 09:25 PM #3 deondup (Member)

Some of this already happened. Many offers removed WhatsApp logo's ec. from the offer pages BUT it was just a matter of time

03-31-2015 09:48 PM #4 lior_o_o (Member)

dam they can't wait a bit so we will squeeze bit more profit from our campaigns ?
Now seriously dario , where did you hear about it ??

03-31-2015 09:55 PM #5 ralphy (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by lior_o_o View Post
dam they can't wait a bit so we will squeeze bit more profit from our campaigns ?
Now seriously dario , where did you hear about it ??
It was posted earlier today on CPAGrip.
I think it does not affect the offers as they are still running hot there.

04-01-2015 03:01 PM #6 Finch (Moderator)

It reminds me of the Google Home Business rebill days.

(Except affs aren't pushing these offers on the infringed brand's own platform!)

Some of the creatives I see in the adult space -- mimicking WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc -- are mindblowing.

You can try and get a click by triggering a reaction based on a familiar UI. Fair enough.

But to piggyback the brand icon-for-icon, logo-for-logo... that's pretty 'short-term thinking'.

04-01-2015 03:47 PM #7 dynamicsoul (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by Finch View Post
It reminds me of the Google Home Business rebill days.

(Except affs aren't pushing these offers on the infringed brand's own platform!)

Some of the creatives I see in the adult space -- mimicking WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc -- are mindblowing.

You can try and get a click by triggering a reaction based on a familiar UI. Fair enough.

But to piggyback the brand icon-for-icon, logo-for-logo... that's pretty 'short-term thinking'.
Ha, Yeah!

And you know what?

It's all Stackman's fault for doing that case study lol

04-01-2015 03:52 PM #8 Finch (Moderator)

Maybe there should be an award for 'most does not give a solitary fuck' ad creative.

I'd go with a WhatsApp alert, promoting a site better than Tinder, with an overlay SnapFuck request. Delivered in the frame of a new Facebook message.

What's the worst that could happen?

04-01-2015 04:30 PM #9 musketeer (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by Finch View Post
Maybe there should be an award for 'most does not give a solitary fuck' ad creative.

I'd go with a WhatsApp alert, promoting a site better than Tinder, with an overlay SnapFuck request. Delivered in the frame of a new Facebook message.

What's the worst that could happen?
To the big guys... Likely nothing.. The little guys who copy them who don't know what they're doing.. Whole other story

04-01-2015 05:59 PM #10 panicore (Member)

@finch you could also add "my husband is dead" while you're at it.

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