Taboola has a rating of 1 stars from 29 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Taboola most frequently mention and credit card. Taboola ranks 564th among Advertising sites.
Scam, scam they never provided any services, it is a total fraud and scam, i deleted my card 2 days ago from their account and they still charged me $16.07 without my permission,, their report shows as they claim that they provided me with 877 users who clicked on my ad but with 0 conversion and that does not make sense because who ever click on the ad land at google play store page to click on the install button and it does not make sense that 877 users clicked on the ad and landed at google play store page and shortly they changed their mind and decided not to install the app,,. I used their site to advertise for my app at google play store "Hexagon block puzzle challenge" and they provided me with 0 installs and 0 conversion. I read the previous customers reviews who claimed they are scam, I believe they are involved with get paid to click program or click farm or boots or click software, they provide invalid clicks.
As a user of the internet, I urge you to find anywhere else to spend your marketing dollar. Taboola is clickbait. They plaster what interesting content with so many ads that you cannot read the content much less the ads.
Set up the account, added the credit card, before we could even do our first ad, we get notified that our landing page was misleading. Website landing page had one full sentence. Account was disapproved and closed. Upon reviewing the post here, I really hope they change or they will not have clients. Never have we ever been treated this way. We sent an email asking for someone on their staff to assist us with the ads. We get shut down. Really, people. Guess they don't need clients or have bills to pay.
My account was deactivated before running my first ad and they refused to tell me why. All I submitted was an ad for watches.
They blanket-disapprove your campaigns, even when they approved nearly identical campaigns, and don't tell you why. Zero transparency and cooperation. Guaranteed waste of your time at this point. They're probably scared of losing MSN or other premium traffic platforms right now. In the process of acting on this fear, however, they are going to lose their biggest paying clients. And you can bet that, if you're not spending on a large ad budget, they'll pay even less attention to you.
When they send you a contract to sign, make sure they don't lock you with any mandatory period of time to run them.
Even if their representative agrees on dropping some of the conditions from the contract make sure you'll have that in writing. They will not honor their promises unless it is in writing.
If you'll decide to drop them, they will not pay the money they still owe you, which is about month and a half of your traffic. You will not see those money.
I'd recommend to use some other ad providers, Taboola pays about the same or less, but not honest with their payments if you go away from them.
I filled out a small form about my business and the next thing I know, they pulled $103 out my account without warning. In my dashboard, it says I had 83 clicks and they are suppose to be. 73 a click so something definitely does not ad up so I cancel and check my own stat counter and it seems that I only had 3 unique visits during that time frame and I bet there were 3 employees of the company. It's a rip off and I wouldn't try it again.
I am a publisher with a solid decade of experience with online advertising. I have worked and still work using Google AdSense, YuhuAds, EPOM, Taboola and other native ads. I have never had an issue with anyone of them when it comes to receiving my money EXCEPT with Taboola. I have been using Taboola for well over one year now, I have accumulated thousands of dollars in earnings but I have not been able to receive one dime. Why? Because Payoneer is probably the worst payment platform on earth and Taboola insists all its publishers must get paid using this same horrible Payoneer. For over a year I have been applying back and forth to Payoneer for my prepaid card so I can receive my earnings on Taboola but to no end. Payoneer will give you a thousand excuses. I keep mailing Taboola they keep directing me to the same Payoneer, this is the worst experience ever. Why can't Taboola make life easy for publishers and provide other alternative payment methods like SWIFT wire transfer (like Google AdSense and so many others) or even PayPal? Why must Taboola force us to use one payment method and subject us to untold suffering and hardship in the hands of Payoneer?
1. Upon signing up, I didn't see the fine print that my card would have a $100 reserve placed on it.
2. I was not able to design and create my own ads. Instead info/images were taken from my designated URLs and ads were generated by their software program. A 600 pixel-wide square was snatched out of the middle of two of the 1700 pixel-wide images on the two URLs so the ads didn't make any sense and looked very stupid.
3. And yet the ads went live even though all I could see was a "PENDING" notice on my dashboard.
4. My site was supposedly reviewed and while in "PENDING" mode it ran anyway and the vast majority of impressions and clicks the first day were from China and India.
5. There is no feature to see what an ad looks like on a browser before or after it goes live.
6. When reviewing the sites I wanted blocked, I could not see what the actual URL was, so I had to look each URL up and see where my ads were going. Some of these were very difficult to discern.
I think Outbrain might be a better choice.
Answer: Taboola is a joke, literally a joke. I went to sign up, thier site didn't ask me to set a password, it didn't have a start date, an end date or a budget amount to set? They did however ask me for a credit card to get started. LOL
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