Nice one, in time when Google is giving thousands of bans, mostly unfair, ad network will ban your revenue too. My friend got ban for penguin graphics what he made, I got for icon what I made from scratch or using word “cool” in title. Got also for ads, because ad network sended porn in intersitials or not updated SDK to new policy. There are many, many bans because google bot error, competition fights using reports, etc. Couple because my fault.
For appodeal it’s red flag, haha. Different networks will ask you what happened and how they can help you. Appnext, Airpush, Startapp, Mobilecore they will pay you until your impressions go to zero because your active users are YOURS and not belongs to ad network. That’s why I am working with them, even I have temporary problems with bans, always I can come back with new apps and continue business.
Google is b.i.t.c.h nowadays and ad networks understand it.
I even created app in appodeal and started integrating but after this words stopped and deleted SDK.
If that’s your official response to that matter, then you’re clearly completely out of touch with Google Play, which is by the way, the largest app market.
Tons of apps get banned for next to nothing.
The only case where a developer should not be paid is if the advertiser didn’t get what they paid for. Anything less is daylight robbery.
One of my unpublished apps is banned by Google with the following reason:
REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of the spam provisions of the Content Policy.
Developers must not attempt to change the placement of any Product in the Store, or manipulate any product ratings or reviews, by unauthorized means such as fraudulent installs, paid or fake reviews or ratings, or by offering incentives to rate products.
The most interesting thing: the app has no reviews and ratings and is unpublished.
After sending appeal to Google play, they have the following reply.
Hi,
We appreciate the opportunity to review your app’s removal. Upon further review, we’ve accepted your appeal and have reinstated your app.
You will need to log back into your Google Play Developer Console to re-publish the application so it is available again on Google Play.
For more information on Google Play policies please visit our app policy help guide, Content Policy, and Developer Distribution Agreement.
Appodeal is a mediation solution for popular ad networks: Admob, Chartboost, Applovin and we are adding Smaato soon.
It accepts bids from each ad network and displays the most profitable ad, plus it performs other optimizations.
So if you install Appodeal SDK, you can always be sure, that you are displaying the most profitable ads in your app.
It imports reports from ad networks and compares their performance in your apps in different countries.
In addition, it tracks user behavior. If statistically a user never clicks a banner, Appodeal would display a CPM campaign rather than CPC.
In addition, we offer instant & flexible payouts.
We do have direct advertisers as well. It allows us to generate even higher eCPM.
I’m sorry, that we can not support apps than get banned on Google due to the nature of our service (early payouts).
Sorry pavel but you can. There are several methods:
-ask developer to upload apk on your site for future check
-check 404 for app site in google play, if it existed
-ask developers to update link to application via some dropbox or alternative market
The problem of banned app, it’s your server and only your side issue. You can have tracker in SDK to track users email(via get account), advertising id(new google’s id avaible for ad networks), user’s ip, location and many, many more to track any violations.
You just said it’s red flag for you and you cannot support apps banned in Google. Advice, improve your service because now your network is completly useless. Developer should pray to not get ban in Google Play?
Even developers with nice games and big DAU should stay away from Appodeal if you have problem with banned apps. Everyone can get ban in every moment without reason.
…and what after ban? Probably appodeal is still serving ads or collecting user data? It’s just stealing. Active users not belongs to ad network but to developers.
If somebody decided to use Appodeal I advice to make simple switch on/off file on your own hosting to disable it in couple seconds on all user devices if any problems.
BTW. I had really hope that Appodeal made some revolution with payments but you detonated a bomb. Probably not only me but all people would like to wait even 60 days for cash and get it.
It’s really sad this forum is so full of small-time criminals trying to make money off of illegal spam apps from whom they know they are going to get banned.
It doesn’t surprise me at all that ramzixp is disliking this.
It is google that makes many spammers.They think they can keep spammers away by simply banning apps without any notice and take away months of work like it is nothing.But they are only making it hard on themselves by creating many spammers.The feeling of your work taken away like it doesnot even matter makes anyone a spammer.
I got an app suspended for no reason at all.And i am becoming a spammer myself too.**** google.
It actually never happened to me yet. We only got a violation notification because of spam and it was clearly my fault, because I spammed to get a higher ranking. If you did nothing wrong and it was a mistake on googles side, you usually get your app back after reaching them. That’s the case for most, at least. Still, all of this doesn’t change the fact that here are people on this forums who upload trash like “Awesome Super Mario LWP” to 3rd party stores and are goddamn proud of it.
Now I am absolutely positive you guys can’t be making money haha. You guys actually follow me around the internet looking for apps that might be mine , thats a waste of time haha. I don’t know your apps and don’t care to find them. Here’s a tip , the only way to make money is focusing on yourself and what you make , learning what customers actually like. Anyway carry on then .
