Clove Network is an advertising agency online publishers use to fill advertising banner inventory. I represent several websites that use a variety of advertisers and ad networks earning more than $50,000 a month in net revenue to publishers.
We were approached by Clove Network, specifically Chandan Varma and Vivek Gupta, with an offer from them for good CPM's. They provided zedo tags and a reporting login and everything ran according to plan. Performance statistics were good, and we filled what they needed. Payment terms for net60 came and went.
OF COURSE, their phones are unanswered, they don't provide direct phone numbers in their business email signatures, and their entire phone tree, including their "Right Spot Media" owner (http://rightspotmedia.com) also doesn't answer their phones.
We haven't been paid once from them, though over the last month they have attempted to delay and make excuses about having the wrong bank routing info, or other meaningless excuses.
Emails and phone messages go unanswered. This is the definition of a scam. Unfortunately, its common in the advertising industry for publishers to be left out to dry like this, given we show ads based on contracts and promises like, expecting to get paid. We take on new client ad agencis, like Clove, because of their promises and because we don't see reports of them being known as scammers.
That's going to end. Clove Network and/or Right Spot Media owes us $3000, and we will post an additional report here or elsewhere, forever, until it gets paid. Other small publishers have said as much, here, however too late for us to see: http://forums. Digitalpoint.com/showthread.php? T=2362236
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