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Traffic quality

What we measure, what gets flagged, and what a review actually involves.

On this page 6 sections
  1. What we measure
  2. What a flag does
  3. The thresholds we alert on
  4. What we expect from you
  5. If your traffic is reviewed
  6. What we do not do

Advertisers pay for users who do something. Networks pass their quality standards to us and we pass ours to you. This page is what those standards are, so nothing on it is a surprise.

What we measure#

Every click is scored before it leaves the wall, and every conversion is scored on arrival. The signals are ordinary ones:

Signal Why it matters
Click-to-conversion time A conversion seconds after the click did not involve installing an app
Conversion rate per app A rate far above the platform norm is the strongest single indicator of incentivised fraud
Repeat device or IP Many end user IDs behind one device is a multi-accounting pattern
Datacentre and proxy IPs Real users are not on hosting ranges
Country mismatch The click geo and the conversion geo disagreeing means a VPN or a rewritten parameter
Reversal rate Advertisers rejecting your conversions is their judgement of your traffic

What a flag does#

Two outcomes, and they are different.

Flag — the conversion is held as pending and goes into a review queue. No ledger entry is written until it is resolved. You are not notified per conversion; you see it in your Conversions report with a pending status.

Block — the conversion is rejected on arrival. No ledger entry, no postback, terminal. Blocking rules exist for patterns with no legitimate explanation, not for borderline traffic.

Clicks can also be blocked before they reach the network. A blocked click still writes a row with its reason, visible in your Clicks report.

The thresholds we alert on#

Signal Threshold
Postback failure rate for one app over 20% in 15 minutes
Reversal rate reviewed when it runs materially above your own historical rate
Negative balance an alert after 30 days

What we expect from you#

  • Stable, unique user identifiers. One userid per real person. See Core concepts.
  • Honest placement. The wall is presented as a rewards feature, not disguised as something else.
  • No incentive beyond the offer. Your users are rewarded for completing an offer. Rewarding them for clicking, or for opening the wall, produces traffic advertisers reject and reverses land on you.
  • Real users. Everything on Prohibited traffic.

If your traffic is reviewed#

You will hear from us before anything changes on your account, unless the pattern is unambiguous fraud.

A review is a conversation with evidence in it — conversion timings, device overlap, the reversal reports from the networks. Bring your own: analytics on where the wall is placed, how users find it, and what changed on the day the pattern started. Most reviews end with a placement change, not with a suspension.

What we do not do#

We do not withhold cleared earnings during a review of new traffic. Cleared money is yours. What a review can do is hold pending conversions until it concludes, and stop new inventory reaching an app.