Marimedia Ad Network Does Not Pay

Over the course of running SearchTempest, I have had the opportunity to try out quite a number of ad networks. Unfortunately I’ve found that most do not have sufficient quality of ads nor earnings to warrant using them alongside Google Adsense. (One notable exception is Sovrn, formerly Lijit, which has been quite good for us.)

However, at least all the networks we’ve used so far do pay their publishers the amounts owed… except for one. We tried out Marimedia for a short time in early 2014. They now owe us several hundred dollars, which has been due for a year, and remains unpaid. We have sent multiple follow-up requests, and have been promised payment several times, but it never comes.

A few hundred dollars isn’t the end of the world, and certainly isn’t worth pursuing legal action, but I felt other publishers deserved to be warned. At least in our case, Marimedia does not pay its bills. I would avoid them.

If the overdue invoices are ever paid, I will update this post.

Update: About a week after writing this post, I was contacted by someone at Marimedia, and about a month after that I did finally receive payment. Since then I have been contacted twice by other Marimedia representatives with no knowledge of our past relationship, asking me to become a publisher for them. Also once after the invoice was paid, to arrange paying it. So, it seems like there’s nothing underhanded going on; they’re just really disorganized.

 

2 thoughts on “Marimedia Ad Network Does Not Pay

  1. Not relevant

    Change to iPad interface is bad. Can’t resize / zoom text… Too small to read now. No point in re arranging the interface. Wish there was a better alternative, but your service is good / great and much appreciated.

    1. Nathan Post author

      Not sure what change you mean. We haven’t changed the interface significantly in quite a while. We are actually in the process of planning out a major redesign though, with the top priority being phone and tablet viewing!

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