Ran my first mobile campaign but failed! (2)
No big deal. This isn't the first campaign that failed (Failed multiple times from FB ads which is MUCH strict than CPA marketing). But it is the first failed mobile campaign. When I say failed, I'm just referring to the approval aspect of my campaign.
So running 3 Anti-Virus offers I got from my networks, and ripped landing pages as well as translating them, I got disapproved for trying to run on PropellerAds. The reason:
"Your creatives should not contain the words like “your software is outdated”, “your device is infected”, “viruses found” etc. No misleading ads, providing false info to the user"
I did do my spy research and found that many of these affiliates are running these same landing pages on similar traffic sources as well as the same one with data from Adplexity.
Now that I've learned this, my question is:
How come other affiliates were able to run these landing pages?
How should Anti-virus offers be promoted in the first place? (Since I already did my spy research)
And
What can I do to fix this?
I would assume just change the copy.
It's quite simple really:
Most affiliates that are running those pages, are cloaking.
What this means is, they are showing a compliant lander to traffic source reps, but aggressive (misleading) landers to actual visitors.
As moderators we are not allowed to teach how to cloak. We don't encourage this practice. There are commercial cloakers available - if you're interested, do a search on this forum and you'll see recommendations from other members.
If you're not planning to cloak, it would be quite difficult to make profits with antivirus offers, because then your lander would need to be compliant. If you find a very good offer, you can still make profit. But it would be much harder than if you were to use misleading/aggressive/scare tactics. Mrbraun gave some great tips in this post if you're wanting to run antivirus without cloaking:
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...on-pop-traffic
Do be aware of the risks of getting caught by either the traffic source or the offer owner/advertiser or the affiliate network:
-If you get caught by the traffic source, you stand to lose the account and any balance still in it.
-If you get caught by the offer owner, you stand to lose any unpaid commissions and get kicked from the offer.
-If you get caught by the affiliate network, you stand to lose commissions, and even your affiliate account.
There are offers that ALLOW aggressive promotion - even when the offer description states otherwise. Your AM would be the best person to ask about this. I would advise NOT to keep your AM in the dark about cloaking or using aggressive landers, because they'd be able to tell you which offers to run in order to minimize risks of nonpayment.
So there you have it - all the options I know of. Only you can choose which path to take though. 
Amy
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