The Publisher validates each ad individually to ensure that the criteria stipulated in the usage policy are met.
If your creative was not approved, you should have received a notification in the platform and an email giving you more details and how to adjust the messaging.
Note that your campaign is saved in your account so you can easily retrieve it, make the required changes then submit it again.
Important: your credit card will only be charged when the campaign is accepted and is delivering ad impressions.
For reference, here are some examples of categories that are usually rejected by publishers. Note that the exact list varies from a publisher to publisher.
EXAMPLES OF BANNED CATEGORIES
- Pornographic or highly suggestive content or images.
- Online gambling.
- Sales of weapons or ammunition.
- Sale of tobacco.
- Extreme violence.
- Hate content, including sites that advocate violence or discrimination against a specific race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality, or discrimination based on age, disability, or medical condition.
- A pattern of false or misleading information or news.
- Excessive profanity.
- Promotion of illegal drugs or drug paraphernalia;
- Promotion of black-hat hacking, cracking, or warez.
- Any other content that is illegal, promotes illicit or harmful activity, or infringes on the rights of others, including sites that provide “how-to” information on bomb-making, lock-picking, and similar topics.
- Defamatory or libelous content.
- Distribution of viruses and/or malware.
EXAMPLES OF RESTRICTED CATEGORIES
- Adult humor.
- Suggestive content.
- Sexual health.
- Sale of alcohol.
- Sale of prescription drugs.