Approvals on RevContent (14)
Last Wednesday late night, I added & verified my payment method on RevContent and submitted 16 pieces of content for approval.
It's now midday Tuesday, and my content is still pending approval.
I've spoken with support and they keep giving me the same generic "1-2 days for approval, with sometimes being 5-7 business days".
Any advice on this? Will this process move quicker if I get a rep? Any advice for being assigned a rep -- is it completely dependent on spend, deposit amount, or can I reach out to one directly?
How do people test creatives with any kind of speed with this approval speed?
I've had my entire campaign set up and ready to launch for a week now 🙄. Will start teeing up other camps in the meantime.
Unfortunately that kind of waiting time is normal.
You can try to contact a revcontent rep on skype (do a search on revcontent in the skype directory), or PM the revcontent rep on STM. I don't know how effective that would be, but may be worth a shot.
If you decide to go this way: Let them know you've been an active poster on STM, and ready to spend a sizeable budget. It may help!
Best of luck!
Amy
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Just re-upload an identical campaign...
Normally Revcontent reviews ads/campaigns every weekday morning around 11 am Eastern Time (though there are exceptions).
At least that was my experience from last October through about a month ago.
Sometimes new campaigns or ads get 'lost in the shuffle' and in that case you just have to submit a duplicate campaign. That's rare though.
It's possible it's a separate issue to do with you having a brand new account, and if that's the case just keep emailing and making sure your payment info is upated and keep uploading new campaigns and you should get some traction at some point and get that first one spending.
If you're worried about too many campaigns starting all at once and spending too much just pick a starting date in the future, or do like tablet in Mongolia on one topic or something so it won't spend anything anyway. That way you at least get one approved and the ball is rolling, although I think if you just upload a duplicate campaign that should probably do the trick 
But no, that's not typical- like I said it's generally every weekday morning in my experience.
I had the same experience with my first batch of campaigns that I started at revcontent quite some time ago. Doing what jack_l mentioned helped, I simply submitted more and eventually, they all got reviewed pretty much at the same time.
I should also add that the following ones got approved more quickly, so I guess it might be tied to the fact that your account is a new one.
Thank you so much everyone.
I feel like this is always how it works out, but everything was approved some time between the time of my original post and now.
Maybe you all are good luck :-).
Will definitely keep everything mentioned in mind as I continue forward!
Originally Posted by angle-lytics
I think they're just more cautious about new signups.
Glad to hear you got everything approved!
Amy
What typically triggers approved content to go back into review?
I changed targeting options (country & topic) and all of the approved content within that boost went back into review for whatever reason. Is that something that typically happens or does it seem like a strange one-off thing?
I would have thought that only image, headline, and link changes would trigger a re-review, but apparently not.
Also, does content have to be re-reviewed if you clone a boost, or is it similar to a TS like ExoClick where once it's approved it's approved for all camps? If a review is needed, I'm assuming it would count as a completely separate review and the original content would remain unaffected?
I would test it myself once everything is approved again, but I'm weary of getting stuck in an endless cycle!
Changing countries will trigger re-approval if those countries weren't approved to begin with. Different rules for different geos.
And pretty sure duplicating a boost still requires approval, but yes the original would remain unaffected.
Originally Posted by thedudeabides
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Hi there,
Add him on skype: jon_11176
Paste your account billing id which you will find here: http://prntscr.com/o15mm9
Your campaigns will be approved in 5-6 hours withing working days (9am-6pm EST time )
Ping Jon to escalate this request in priority.
Regards
Pankaj
Thank you Pankaj.
I messaged John, but never got a response. Regardless, my ads were reapproved in about 3 days this time.
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My boosts are active, but now I'm having another issue. My boosts are not spending.
They've been active for about 6 hours now, and not a simple impression.
Here's an example of my targeting (some figures have been substituted for privacy):
* Budget daily, $100
* Optimize for engagement
* Start date immediate
* I have my targeting set to Diet and Fitness with a bid of about .75, which should be higher than average.
* Targeting Vietnam with Vietnamese language
* 1 mobile campaign, 1 desktop campaign
$1k balance in account. Campaign status is showing active, with most content approved (a few in review)
$0 spend.
Any thoughts?
Originally Posted by angle-lytics
There probably aren't any Vietnamese language sites with widgets corresponding to that category...
Revc doesn't have much international volume unfortunately...
I think those that topic would get volume in U.S., and maybe even another 3-5 countries, but that's about it.
I had a profitable French language desktop campaign in France on Revc and I had every topic opened up and it still wouldn't spend more than about 100$ a day once I optimized out the bad widgets.
MGID might have more Vietnam traffic, if you are specifically trying to target Vietnam, and Outbrain and Taboola definitely will.
Or, your other options would be to start opening up more topics on that camp and see which ones have Vietnamese language sites in them (but be careful for bot widgets).
You're bid is definitely high enough- I would say probably 10-20 cents will get you in position 1 in Vietnam.
But yeah, keep at it man! I always felt like Revc was like driving a stick shift at first... hard to get going then BAM! then it dies... then BAM... then lurches... then eventually you get the hang of it and it's great to drive
PS Remember on Revc those topics don't overlap much... so each one only accounts for somewhere between maybe 1-15% of Revc's total traffic. There's a few sites that will be in two different topics, but that's the extent of the overlap... with that said though it is good to be cautious opening up new topics because each one has a few bad bot widgets (or did, at least... I hear they're trying to clean those up).
Thanks a lot Jack for the quick and comprehensive response!
Just changed some things up and started getting a [very very] small number of impressions!
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Yes the specific GEO is not VN, but a similar country.
I knew RC was largely US, but I thought it still had decent volume internationally. I'm actually shocked to hear what you said about volume in FR!
So I've opened up languages in my GEO since I think this GEO tends to have a demo that could use one of several browser languages, and opened up the top 15 or so topics as well (excluding push, software and filesharing, etc.)
Appreciate the stick shift analogy as well. Makes sense
For sure. Just watch out for bot widgets if you're not using TheOptimizer or Drive or something. You can have one eat up a lot of spend fast, especially if you're bidding high... (unless, again, they've managed to get rid of this in the last few weeks since their latest changes)... typically I would have to block 1-4 bot widgets per topic on blacklist/run of network campaigns.
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