Have any of you ever been paid by cigclick?

We review all new account before payout.

If you did not get paid it is due to one of the following reasons, to protect our advertisers ad spends.

- review of clicks came back "many duplicates" by same IP address.
- random review of your publisher account showed fraudulent activity

Both actions result in closure / cancelation of your account.

We do not pay out to fraudulent publishers and must refund advertisers for the fraudulent clicks.

CigClick admin.

BPI, I see this is an old thread but just realized that you are accusing my company of fraudulent activity. We use a respected 3rd party ad server for all of our ad serving and tracking. We have had some problems with a few publishers in the past inflating impressions but we keep an eye out for fraudulent activities and stop that sort of thing very quickly. We work with all of the top vaping and ecig companies in the industry and have a great reputation. If there was a problem with your campaign it was never brought to our attention, but please feel free to contact us any time if you have any questions about our platform.

My partner isn't a publisher. He runs a high traffic ecig website and you asked him to put the invisible iframe on his page. As you know, the ecig industry is small, we all are aware of each other.

He said he spoke to Matt and Brad.

You are a scam. Your customers need to know this.

Hopefully it is quite obvious for those reading the thread that Ciggie is a competitor and not a past advertiser or publisher as he cannot produce anything of substance to support his claims.

Ultimately here is the solution for advertisers worried about publishers or a network faking impressions.

Track Conversions
Don't focus on purchasing impressions. Focus on conversions! Have the network place a conversion pixel on your thank you page. Also, run your own conversion tracking through google analytics, an affiliate program(if you have one), or a third party ad server like doubleclick. Start with a small campaign, track the campaigns performance, tweak the campaign for better performance, and then scale your campaign.

Compare conversion cost to LTV
Typically the LTV (life time value) of a customer in the vaping industry is $500-$700. You can track LTV with software like kissmetrics, mixpanel, google analytics or most any attribution tracking platform. If you want to analyze your current customer database, you can use software like Metrilo or another solution that analyzes your e-commerce platforms customer purchase history. Once you know your LTV compare to the cost of a conversion. In general, most companies have a goal to acquire a customer for $100-$300.

Optimize Campaign
If you find that your cost per conversion is above avg then it is probably due to your targeting and or your offer. Show your results to the network and ask them to help you optimize your campaign. Because we are a smaller network we do this by default, but if you use a larger DSP or other network you may have to request assistance.

Scale Campaign
Once your campaign has a positive ROI ask the network to scale your offer as much as possible. Monitor conversion rates, track LTV, tweak campaigns, and update offers if they get stale.

No network is perfect but we work with most of the top advertisers and publishers in the industry because we get results.

Also, Adwords still works.... you just cant bid on the head of the search. Focus on terms that google doesn't automatically filter and send the traffic to landing pages that are compliant.