Hey STM'ers
Network: Tapgerine
Tracking:
Offer: Delivery Heros (Android) AU
VPN:HideMyAss
All the campaigns are Direct Linking
Lately i have been trying very hard to work out why none of my offers from a certain network won't work once i enter the campaign url from my tracking system into my phone using a VPN. I have no idea now what is going on since every offer i seem to choose doesn't work once i enter it into my phone in the correct GEO. It seems strange to me that all the offers (Apart from 1 offer which worked for about a day then was pulled) that i seem to pick don't work once i set up tracking and test the campaign URL i have come up with a few possible ideas that might be the cause of it not working, i have contacted my AM saying that is there any restrictions on the offers which would mean me not seeing the landing page of the offer and i'm still waiting for a reply.
1. The offer has carrier restriction so only carriers in offer GEO work for the particular offer - Contacted AM about this. Waiting for reply
2. I'm doing something wrong, yet it's hard to get tracking wrong at this stage and i have redone the campaign around 5 times to check whether i'm getting anything wrong.
3. Offers are pulled straight away are not working before i even choose the offer, yet AM says different. - not likely to be the case
4. Something to do with my VPN, perhaps the offer/advertiser recognises the ip from that particular VPN and redirects me. - i'm just shooting in the dark now but could it possibly be that?
5. Bad luck of choosing offers? - I doubt it.
6. Isp?
7. Device restrictions on offer?
please comment below if you have any ideas what i'm doing or any possible causes.
I really need to sort this out since it's the only thing holding me back from really starting my AM journey, it doesn't seem like a common theme so i'm probably getting something wrong, but if you have come across this, any help would be appreciated,
Best of luck to you all!
Jack
Do you have your own landing page? If so have you placed the correct click link for the CTA?
Or is this a direct linked campaign?
@Ruby Tunes - Oh yeah sorry forgot to mention, yeah all these are direct link campaigns
@jack_k
Hey Jack I get this all the time. The AM's usually just assume its still working. After I ask about the offer, they usually ask the guys who gives the offer to check up if anything has changed and usually they have pulled it down without even telling them.
Before I do anything, I usually just paste the affiliate link into the targeted countries + Operating systems to see if the offer works.
jack_k, we have now created a custom tool that is checking all offers before we give it to affiliates, and the number of offers that are stopped by the advertiser and are still live in our system has decreased to zero. Each campaign is being checked manually before it is approved