This shit happened months and months ago.
Basically, this douche Matthew Conlon, ripped my first ever profitable campaign. I was running with EWA, and he was my affiliate manager. I told him almost all of the details of my campaign (I know, I know, but I was new to AM). I'd run with them before, but never got anything profitable. After a load of adspend & testing though, I finally got this one profitable.
As I became more profitable, I asked for paybumps, obviously. However, Matt started asking for advice on his own campaigns. He ended up giving me a paybump under the condition I'd help him further. (Ruh-roh, I think we know where this is going...)
He then let me login to his POF account, so I could see the campaign itself. Turned out, he'd duplicated my campaign as much as he could, same offer - He made out originally like it was his own campaign, not a rip of mine. I had a look at the paused campaigns too, and there I found 2 campaigns based around another offer I'd started running. Looking at the demographics, I noticed he'd used a tip that I KNOW I was the only person using, that I'd told him in confidence, and had found out for myself. He'd never even mentioned these campaigns, and (I don't know this, this bit's an educated guess) paused them to avoid me seeing them.
I gave him a small bit of intentionally bad advice mixed in with some good, after this, but I thought there wasn't much point switching networks, I'd just avoid giving him any more advice. But here's the nail in the coffin. I noticed 2 days later that suddenly, my impressions had dropped like a stone. Upped the bid by a cent, got half the original impressions, upped by another, got the same impressions, and he complained about his dropping like a stone.
With him outbidding me as well (I assumed, I can't be sure of that), I decided to get my paycheck as quickly as possible, then got the hell out of there. Switched over to Epic, right before they had their first payment issues. Obviously, by the time I'd got paid by Epic, the campaign was dead.
I messaged Ryan a few months later, in response to a "how's your AM" email. The results of that are linked below. (email addresses edited out to avoid spambots) I should also mention that Ryan kept Matthew in employment until around December. I told him in June.
I'd erred on and off about posting this, but after getting an email from EWA, and seeing this: PoF Still a Viable Source | EWA Network Docs I just had to.
EWA/Matthew Conlon - Pastebin.com
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(I asked Hack prior to posting this.)
Basically, this douche Matthew Conlon, ripped my first ever profitable campaign. I was running with EWA, and he was my affiliate manager. I told him almost all of the details of my campaign (I know, I know, but I was new to AM). I'd run with them before, but never got anything profitable. After a load of adspend & testing though, I finally got this one profitable.
As I became more profitable, I asked for paybumps, obviously. However, Matt started asking for advice on his own campaigns. He ended up giving me a paybump under the condition I'd help him further. (Ruh-roh, I think we know where this is going...)
He then let me login to his POF account, so I could see the campaign itself. Turned out, he'd duplicated my campaign as much as he could, same offer - He made out originally like it was his own campaign, not a rip of mine. I had a look at the paused campaigns too, and there I found 2 campaigns based around another offer I'd started running. Looking at the demographics, I noticed he'd used a tip that I KNOW I was the only person using, that I'd told him in confidence, and had found out for myself. He'd never even mentioned these campaigns, and (I don't know this, this bit's an educated guess) paused them to avoid me seeing them.
I gave him a small bit of intentionally bad advice mixed in with some good, after this, but I thought there wasn't much point switching networks, I'd just avoid giving him any more advice. But here's the nail in the coffin. I noticed 2 days later that suddenly, my impressions had dropped like a stone. Upped the bid by a cent, got half the original impressions, upped by another, got the same impressions, and he complained about his dropping like a stone.
With him outbidding me as well (I assumed, I can't be sure of that), I decided to get my paycheck as quickly as possible, then got the hell out of there. Switched over to Epic, right before they had their first payment issues. Obviously, by the time I'd got paid by Epic, the campaign was dead.
I messaged Ryan a few months later, in response to a "how's your AM" email. The results of that are linked below. (email addresses edited out to avoid spambots) I should also mention that Ryan kept Matthew in employment until around December. I told him in June.
I'd erred on and off about posting this, but after getting an email from EWA, and seeing this: PoF Still a Viable Source | EWA Network Docs I just had to.
EWA/Matthew Conlon - Pastebin.com
Inb4 tl;dr, whitepeopleproblems, umad, snowman.jpg
(I asked Hack prior to posting this.)
