Taboola Reviews 151

I am extremely disappointed with Taboola. They suspended my account claiming it didn't meet their rules, but they never specified which rules were violated. Meanwhile, similar ads from other companies are running perfectly fine on their network.

What's worse is that I’m now locked out: I can’t edit my campaigns, I can’t delete my account, and I can’t even remove my payment method. They are basically holding my credit card hostage while charging me $90 for clicks generated during a 'learning phase'—money completely wasted for a campaign they won't even let me optimize. It feels like a scam for new advertisers. Terrible experience and a total waste of time.

Bring live chatting to the Language German

We have put several native advertising campaigns with Taboola. At first, the Taboola-reported metrics and visitor tracking made us think we were getting good results. Unfortunately, it turned out that all the click-to-calls we were seeing resulted in a completed phone call less than 1% of the time. This was highly unusual and suggestive of click fraud.

Getting started with their platform was challenging. The ad creation page crashed constantly. There's no good system for incremental saves, so I lost an hour of work three times or more.

Customer service is worse than useless. When you follow their advice, things get worse or stop working. Study the help files and help yourself. You'll be much better off.

Adding insult to injury, many of our campaigns were for healthcare providers, which are one of their "special categories." In this category, they will reject an ad regardless of its content, with an error message saying the ad needs pre-approval. There is no separate process, that is the first step in the process. Then they give zero instructions about how to get pre-approval. It's more like they are blowing you off. Chat GPT found a support email address for them. That worked with a couple of campaigns. By the third time this happened, they ignored my emails. They held me on a rude, long chat and told me I had to stay on the line with them while they did the approval. It ended up taking over 40 minutes to approve one new ad set, in addition to the time I wasted gathering all the details for emails and then following up. Their employee Aditya Varma is particularly difficult. There's really no excuse for this process. Just put the submitted ads through your approval process and let me know if they are wrong. Their so called "pre-approval" process not a process at all. I have asked several times, and no employee will comment on what the "process" should be. It's just guess and get bumped around and not listened to. So frustrating.

I really like these guys, the customer service is 100% human and they are fast and gently. Thank you

Taboola pushes the same absurd, irrelevant nonsense into my screen every single day. I’m a 67-year-old straight woman and I keep getting ads for “young Ukrainian” and “young Japanese” women looking for a partner, right there in my Yahoo Mail. I actually do have plenty of interests, so I asked them if they could at least show me something about EK museums or culture.

Their support sits on the same intellectual level as their targeting: template mails, zero reading, zero processing. They just kept sending me the exact same automated message on repeat — basically: “Remember, it’s free, so shut up.”

The ads themselves aren’t just irrelevant — they’re sexually suggestive, lazy, and embarrassing. What’s the plan here, Taboola? Hoping I’ll suddenly mutate from a 67-year-old straight woman into some holo-bi sex hunter chasing young girls across the internet? Come on. This is pure CPM greed: even if they showed me the backside of a pig, as long as the ad flashes on my screen, it’s cha-ching for them.

Taboola adds no value, no relevance, no service. Just noise, cheap clicks, and cash-grabbing.

Seems lie they're promoting scams as well, very shady and unethical.

Taboola is deceptive and promotes very biased sources of news in both directions.

The help team was very accommodating and helpful Can't say enough about them

It took longer than expected that our campaign to be approved but once it started running, we have been so glad to see the interactions of our market segment. I hope we continue with no problem and keep our campaign running. Throughout this process, I highly appreciate the customer service agents' support, especially Dear Gaurav Dwivedi.

Taboola tech support is so useful. Thanks

Taboola is a SCAM!, everyone stay away and stop using their ads immediately if you don't want to lose money. I was their publisher for many years and here is my real experience. It was terrible.

They canceled my payment of over $4000 claiming that I violated their policies. Even if I did, they can't steal 100% of my earnings from publishers.

Again, this is a scam and they will randomly steal 100% of your revenue. Stay away from this ad network and use a more reputable ad network.

Great Support Experience with Taboola

I’ve had a positive experience working with the Taboola support team. While it did take a few days to resolve my issue, the team was responsive and professional throughout the process. Special thanks to Tejaswini and Ayush for their consistent follow-ups and efforts.

Their support really helped me move forward with my campaigns. Looking forward to smoother and faster resolutions in the future.

Taboola sites for advertisement DO NOT ALLOW US TO UNSUBSCRIBE!!!
I have requested numerous times to try to unsubscribe from a continuous advertisement and thru Taboola and get no results whatsoever. I am so very mad that Taboola send the advertisements over and over constantly, one after the other and at least 10-12 times PER DAY!!!

Taboola is a scam platform. They have a known issue with unauthorized countries being added to ad campaigns, yet they continue to blame customers instead of taking responsibility. I set up my campaign and, after a few months, noticed a major spike in views from countries I never targeted—specifically Albania and Afghanistan. I hadn't made any edits to my campaign, and I have no reason to target those regions. When I contacted support, they accused me of adding them myself. After digging into reviews, I found this has happened to many others. Taboola refuses to acknowledge the flaw and always shifts the blame. I lost nearly $700 because of this, and it could’ve been much worse if I hadn’t caught it in time.

Wasted a TON of our time. Created ad copies and had everything uploaded. They called us and then set up an appointment with our "account manager." Scheduled time for our CEO and Business manager to both be present. Then they sent us an email saying they closed the account and their decision was final. WTH? THEN we get an email because we "missed the appointment." Emailed back asking for clarification and no one responded for a week after multiple emails only to be told they "don't know why and can't tell us" but we could email someone else and ask why. So unprofessional.

Extremely fraud company. You can see Taboola ads here and there, that is like they take money from us and give to them just to show they are top network. Many other advertisers also suggest not to try they simply suspend after depositing.