I promised a longer explanation for the immediate discontinuation of email submits on Convert2Media, so here it is. First and foremost I would like to get a few things cleared up right away.

1. Convert2Media did not get stiffed for any money. In all actuality, Convert2Media was getting scrubbed harder than a wire brush bath at a nuclear power plant. It wasnt because of bad traffic either. It was the intense fluctuation and non-consistencies of everyday publishing that we saw.

2. I just out of the blue decided to discontinue email submits after two years of publishing reflection and day to day, month to month issues dealing with them altogether.

3. Our sources were in fact paying us for leads on THE ONES THAT WERE ACCOUNTED FOR and there lies the problem. As a network I’ve seen more bullshit in this industry than I care to explain but let me go ahead and explain a few that really messed up.

The blame goes on EVERYONE not just someone. Let’s face it, there are some shady ass advertisers out there. There are some shady ass networks out there. There are some shady ass affiliates out there.

It all goes hand in hand. In this industry, someone is always going to try and one up another no matter who it is. Let’s face it, no matter what you do and no matter how legitimate you may publish somewhere along the line you have either or will run into some issue that just pisses publishers off past the point of not caring. Allowing that behavior just continually adds to the cycle.

I dont know where it all began or where it may end but I for one will just not deal with it anymore. Getting scrubbed on the network side and paying publishers out of company profits is a risk we take as a network. I know this, I understand this, I planned on this but it has gotten to the point of where it’s becoming quite redundant to even try in this space anymore. We will leave that up to others.

I was not trying to make an industry statement although we’ve shown up on a couple of forums now and looked at as some type of leader in a movement. I still see email submits going strong and there are networks who actually have excellent track records with them. I published for two years with Azoogle, Maxbounty, and ROI Rocket without a hitch.

I am here to tell you that there is a TON that goes on behind the scenes that a network doesnt even see or realize until they start watching everything like a hawk. With thousands and thousands of conversions a day there is a lot of room for stupid crap to happen to even the networks.

A lot of people get screwed in this vertical all the way from advertisers taking matters into their own hands and affiliates retaliating. Then you have networks playing the middle man who either engage in the activity themselves or have no realization they are in fact being screwed as well.

No big dealio. If we are getting screwed over then you are getting screwed over and none of us even know it and we made a company decision to chase other verticals to focus on and test that are not such a headache.

Now that it’s out of the way, Michael, Ryan, Steve and I would like to thank all of our email submit publishers for their business. Maybe somewhere down the road Convert2Media will develop their own line of email submits. I also welcome any companies that read this blog to present their ideas, opinions and frustrations as well.