How to unlink my channel from AdRev

[FootballJunkie]

Yesterday, i joined AdRev, they don't have lock contract meaning you can join and leave whenever you want, in the contract they didn't mention anything about when you get paid and didn't pay attention to that because its the same for most of the networks, after joining then and linking my channel i got an account on their website and it didn't have anything, no analistics, nothing .. i wasn't even able to view the analistics on youtube for the videos i uploaded after i joined them, then i check out their FAQ to see that partners get paid after 6 months! i immediately requested an unlink, but they didn't even respond, i emailed them couple of times on their site but no response.
I have googled them and found out that they lock people in and then unlink them after a month or two but keep the money they made from the videos, is there any way i can get my channel back?

 

[Liibaan Jama]

AS AN ADVICE PEOPLE SHOULD READ THIS KIND OF THINGS BEFORE THE SIGN ADREV AGREEMENT FOR PARTNERSHIP
Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and continue for three (3) years


5. Term and Termination.

• a. Term. The term of this Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and continue for three (3) years (the “Initial Term”). This Agreement will automatically renew for a subsequent periods of three (3) years (each, a “Renewal Term”) unless a Party gives notice of termination not more than one-hundred and twenty (120) days and not less than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of the Initial Term or any Renewal Term.
• b. Termination. This Agreement shall terminate upon any of the following occurrences:
  • i. Either Party may terminate this agreement immediately upon breach by the other Party of this Agreement, unless the breaching Party remedies such default within fifteen (15) days of receipt of written notice of the non-breaching Party’s intent to terminate this Agreement.
  • ii. Provider may terminate this agreement by removing all or substantially all of the Provider Content from the Provider Channel.
  • iii. AdRev may terminate this agreement immediately if this Provider Channel receives one ore more copyright strikes and/or DMCA takedown requests.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, AdRev may terminate this Agreement immediately upon any breach of Section 3(c) by Provider, without giving Provider any advance notice of AdRev’s intent to terminate this Agreement.

 

[paolo0179]

I olso have this problem, Adrev is a scam, we must to be open a social group for talk abaut this and contact a unique lawyer for help us!

 

[Partnership hero]

I olso have this problem, Adrev is a scam, we must to be open a social group for talk abaut this and contact a unique lawyer for help us!

Why are they scam ; ) ? They offered a service, you accepted and signed the agreement ... meaning you agreed to the terms of the agreement. This is how I see this.

 

[WolfWraith]

Where exactly did you see that they don't have lock ins? I can't see anything on their website. If they advertised no lock ins then locked you in, maybe we could say it was a scam. Also their FAQ says you get paid less than 6 months (EDIT: corrected, I said every 45 days it's nearly 2am for me xD) "You will receive payment within 45 days of the close of each month" http://talent.adrev.net/faq

 

[Bambinou1980]

You cannot believe how angry I am regarding AdRev for talent.
I will now explain to you how the scam is working, I got caught too into it and I am super angry. If anyone would like to start a petition and take it further please let me know because we have to tell people that they must be really careful upon signing anything with this company.

Here is how it works:

First, noone really knows the difference between cid.adrev.net and talent.adrev.net, most of us will believe it is the exact same thing because both urls have "adrev.net", so when you receive a publicity about adrev(for talent), the first thing you do is go here to check what their service is about:
cid.adrev.net/adrev-advantage

And here is the scam, it says "you keep 100% of your own video revenue", so the first thing you think about is..."great!" they will only take a commission out of me if they find another video like mine on Youtube...fairplay!

You signup here and like on most websites, you don't read the small text in that scroll box(and they know well you won't because there is far too much to read!)
talent.adrev.net/join

And here we go, things started...

So, before joining Adrev, my daily earnings were about 7 to 10 dollars per day, out of this, Google takes about half, so if you earn 100 dollars at the end of the month, you receive 50 dollars in your adsense account.

But here is the scam, you would believe that partnering with Adrev would move this commission from Google to them but no no no.....now Adrev will take 45% of your net 50 dollars!!! This is just sick because they have not increased my revenues and still take a share of everything monthly.

Worse part is...you cannot come out of the contract and find out you have signed up for a 3-year deal!!!!! Madness!!

How can, as a Video maker/owner, you cannot keep your own content for yourself and get pushed into a contract.

I have read their agreement further and it looks like the only way to cancel the agreement is to fully delete all the videos on that channel. Could someone confirm this please?

Now I hope you understand what the user of this post meant about not being happy with Adrev.

Hope this post will reach thousands of people in the same situation.

Please open a petition and I will gladly send it to many people on the internet. We need more regulations on this type of electronic signup, we need the important info written in BIG like they did for the cid.talent.net. Why did they not create the same table for talent.adrev.net? Well I know why.....they just did not want you to show this bad info to you directly in an easy to understand format.

Please don't tell us to read all the small prints, you know well that marketers open multiple accounts each week on diferent websites and if we had to read every small prints on every single website we would never be able to advance with our work.

They should have detailed all the important info in big before the signup, this is disgusting!

Hope this post will help many others

 

[CousinEd]

But here is the scam, you would believe that partnering with Adrev would move this commission from Google to them but no no no.....now Adrev will take 45% of your net 50 dollars!!! This is just sick because they have not increased my revenues and still take a share of everything monthly.

Google will ALWAYS take their cut. I think it's common sense because otherwise, google would just give up their income from YouTube.

Please don't tell us to read all the small prints, you know well that marketers open multiple accounts each week on diferent websites and if we had to read every small prints on every single website we would never be able to advance with our work

You go to a website to sign a contract, yet you don't bother to read the small print (which is not that small)? Hmm.

I have read their agreement further and it looks like the only way to cancel the agreement is to fully delete all the videos on that channel. Could someone confirm this please?

• • c. Right to Remove Improper Content.AdRev shall have the right to require Provider to remove from the Provider Channel any Provider Content that AdRev believes or suspects (i) to be in violation of any law or regulation that Provider, the Provider Channel, or the Provider Content is subject to, including any rules or regulations established by YouTube, Google, or other entities involved in hosting or monetizing the Provider Channel and Provider Content; (ii) to be infringing upon any third party’s intellectual property rights; or (iii) will have a negative impact upon AdRev’s reputation or business (collectively, “Improper Content”). AdRev shall notify Provider of any Improper Content in writing, and Provider shall remove such Improper Content from the Provider Channel within five (5) days of receipt of such notice. AdRev shall have the discretion to immediately terminate this Agreement for any breach by Provider of this Section 3(c).

You can upload copyrighted content and then send their support a message that you won't quit until you are released from their contract. You could potentially risk with a strike or two, but hey, you're in a hurry, right?

 

[Bambinou1980]

Thank you for the reply

The issue here is not a contract. I hope you understand the issue of them creating sub domains with the same top level name confusing users like me that the table shown on that website is what will be paid out. Think about it, the contract is not even emailed, it is a tick box and whatever is inside can be changed anytime from their side, so this type of contract has no value to me. And as explained below, there is a difference between a contract and an agreement.


1)Their team never warned me about their fees before signing the contract. If you look well on their website, there is no table detailing the actual service fees for talent.adrev but there are details of cid adrev(do you think this is not done on purpose? Please be honest by looking correctly at how they are promoting the service)

2)They do not increase your earnings, but still take their cut out. I am not saying this happens to everyone, but happened to me, my earnings have not increased since I joined them but only decreased by 50%.

3)Yes Google takes their chunk out, but what if Adrev was a sub company of Google or a close tie? What about Adrev having a special partnership with Google where adrev could have simply taken the 45% themselves, boost the videos and send back 40% to Google + increase in views and earnings? Why automatically believe..."yes of course Google must take their commission" but this is blindly assuming that there are no business trades behind the scenes.

4)"""You go to a website to sign a contract, yet you don't bother to read the small print (which is not that small)? Hmm. I found all the necessary information in like 1 minute. ""
This is not right, You mention the word "contract", can you please go back on the page and find me the word "contract" anywhere? In my country in the EU a contract is a contract and it shows as "contractual obligations". On that page it is called "rules" and then "
CONTENT PROVIDER AGREEMENT

Think about it, if I did see the word "contract" then I would have taken this little scroll box more seriously.
A contract is legally binding you to an agreement(like Adrev is doing) while a simple agreement does not. Therefore the proper terminology for this signup box should have been titled "Contract".

Now perhaps you don't work online or do a job that requires the opening of a lot of accounts, but if you open a forum account, you are telling me that you, as a person, you are reading fully their terms of agreements upon signup? Are you really going to make me believe this?

I am sorry but I have the feeling that you are protecting Adrev because there is a tick box you call "contract" that is not referenced as a contract by any words + tell me that you understand the sub domain trick, the table promotion that refers to only 1 service, the "contract" not emailed to the user, the possibility to change the content of the "contract", how can you agree with all of this? I contract music to users on the internet, my contract is sent to them via PDF with a contract versioning, ie: V 1.2 with the date because it is just too easy to modify the contract and tell the customer 2 years later, "Hey sorry sir but what you are doing with my songs is against the contractual terms you have signed during xxxx date " At least the user can come back to me and show the PDF with the versioning that is requirement in my country(which protects the user against contractual modifications).

5)I call this bullying, instead of just saying, ok dear customer, it seems that yes we have not really increased your earnings, please accept our apology and we will unlink your account, nope...their reply is, in order to terminate your contract with us, you have to remove all your videos from your accounts. Great isn't it? Do you agree with me now? Do you really think I would treat my home customer this way? I have had people coming back to me asking for songs swaps, or refunds on collections or simply not happy with the service, I have always done my maximum to serve my customers.


Enjoy your day.

 

[Shane]

You cannot believe how angry I am regarding AdRev for talent.
I will now explain to you how the scam is working, I got caught too into it and I am super angry. If anyone would like to start a petition and take it further please let me know because we have to tell people that they must be really careful upon signing anything with this company.

Here is how it works:

First, noone really knows the difference between cid.adrev.net and talent.adrev.net, most of us will believe it is the exact same thing because both urls have "adrev.net", so when you receive a publicity about adrev(for talent), the first thing you do is go here to check what their service is about:
cid.adrev.net/adrev-advantage

And here is the scam, it says "you keep 100% of your own video revenue", so the first thing you think about is..."great!" they will only take a commission out of me if they find another video like mine on Youtube...fairplay!

You signup here and like on most websites, you don't read the small text in that scroll box(and they know well you won't because there is far too much to read!)
talent.adrev.net/join

And here we go, things started...

So, before joining Adrev, my daily earnings were about 7 to 10 dollars per day, out of this, Google takes about half, so if you earn 100 dollars at the end of the month, you receive 50 dollars in your adsense account.

But here is the scam, you would believe that partnering with Adrev would move this commission from Google to them but no no no.....now Adrev will take 45% of your net 50 dollars!!! This is just sick because they have not increased my revenues and still take a share of everything monthly.

Worse part is...you cannot come out of the contract and find out you have signed up for a 3-year deal!!!!! Madness!!

How can, as a Video maker/owner, you cannot keep your own content for yourself and get pushed into a contract.

I have read their agreement further and it looks like the only way to cancel the agreement is to fully delete all the videos on that channel. Could someone confirm this please?

Now I hope you understand what the user of this post meant about not being happy with Adrev.

Hope this post will reach thousands of people in the same situation.

Please open a petition and I will gladly send it to many people on the internet. We need more regulations on this type of electronic signup, we need the important info written in BIG like they did for the cid.talent.net. Why did they not create the same table for talent.adrev.net? Well I know why.....they just did not want you to show this bad info to you directly in an easy to understand format.

Please don't tell us to read all the small prints, you know well that marketers open multiple accounts each week on diferent websites and if we had to read every small prints on every single website we would never be able to advance with our work.

They should have detailed all the important info in big before the signup, this is disgusting!

Hope this post will help many others

Sounds like you're just angry because you didn't bother doing proper research nor reading the contract..
"Please don't tell us to read all the small prints", a legal contract and a terms of service are not the same thing though...

Sure the deal isn't great but you signed it and obviously signed it without much consideration.

 

[CousinEd]

1)Their team never warned me about their fees before signing the contract. If you look well on their website, there is no table detailing the actual service fees for talent.adrev but there are details of cid adrev(do you think this is not done on purpose? Please be honest by looking correctly at how they are promoting the service)

They don't have to warn you about anything. It is your due diligence to do your own research.

2)They do not increase your earnings, but still take their cut out. I am not saying this happens to everyone, but happened to me, my earnings have not increased since I joined them but only decreased by 50%.

Probably all MCN's will take a cut, except for individually negotiated contracts for larger YouTube channels. Those guys receive 100/0 with additional premium ads sales. I would speculate that your channel is too small for them to serve premium ads, so that is why you are not seeing any increase in earnings. Of course, support is still working on their site I would assume, so you can ask them.

3)Yes Google takes their chunk out, but what if Adrev was a sub company of Google or a close tie? What about Adrev having a special partnership with Google where adrev could have simply taken the 45% themselves, boost the videos and send back 40% to Google + increase in views and earnings? Why automatically believe..."yes of course Google must take their commission" but this is blindly assuming that there are no business trades behind the scenes.

Will not comment on this as I'm not a google employee and neither an owner of an MCN.

Think about it, if I did see the word "contract" then I would have taken this little scroll box more seriously.
A contract is legally binding you to an agreement(like Adrev is doing) while a simple agreement does not. Therefore the proper terminology for this signup box should have been titled "Contract".

Are they based in EU? Did you ask beforehand for a contract draft and how the singing procedure will proceed? Again, it would seem that you haven't done your research.

Now perhaps you don't work online or do a job that requires the opening of a lot of accounts, but if you open a forum account, you are telling me that you, as a person, you are reading fully their terms of agreements upon signup? Are you really going to make me believe this?

Oh please, don't give me this BS. As I said before, you are on a site to potentially sign a contract. You have to be prepared for these things. If you don't know something, ask.

I am sorry but I have the feeling that you are protecting Adrev

Never heard of them before.