OGAds Review (2026)

In 2016 I had a new house, a job I was tired of, and an $8,000 bill from the IRS. Whoops. I was hanging around the CPAElites forum when I found OGAds, and the idea that someone could install an app on their phone and I'd get paid for it was enough to get me started.

Since then OGAds has sent me 187 invoices, all marked Paid. Open any affiliate forum, though, and somebody in there got banned on day two with $1,300 sitting in the account.

Both stories are true. OGAds pays, on Net-7 through Tipalti with a $50 minimum, and it decides on its own what counts as bad traffic. Every ban story I could trace to the end comes down to that call. This review covers where the money comes from, where it gets taken back, and how I'd stay on the paid side.

One caveat before my numbers. I don't run lockers right now. My last ones date to 2017 and 2018, and most of what OGAds pays me today is referral commission. So this is ten years of payment history plus a walk through the 2026 dashboard, logged in, on October 19.

Scoring note: the overall is the plain average of the three subscores.

At a glance

• What it is: A CPA network for content lockers, smart links and get-paid-to sites
• Running since: August 2014, as OGMobi
• Based in: 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1212, Chicago, the address it lists
• Offers: 861 in my dashboard on October 19, 2026, capped ones included
• Offer types: App installs (CPI), lead gen, email submits, PIN submits
• Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows
• Payment terms: Net-7 or Net-30, set per account. Mine is Net-7
• Minimum payout: $50 for most methods. USDC $65, wire $200
• Payout methods: 7, through Tipalti: ACH, PayPal, eCheck, Intercash, Payoneer, USDC and wire
• Early payment: 15% fee, never on your first invoice
• Referral commission: 5% of what referred publishers earn, for life
• Tracking: Postback URL, CSV export and an offer API
• Who decides what counts: OGAds, at its sole discretion, per its publisher terms
• My account: Publisher since 2016, 187 invoices, all Paid

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Who OGAds is for

Quick test: if you'd be embarrassed to show your affiliate manager where your traffic comes from, don't apply yet.

OGAds fits if:

• You own the site, app or channel the locker sits on.
• Your visitors come for one specific thing: a file, a mod, a template, a code, a guide.
• You deliver it the second the offer is done.
• Most of your traffic is on phones, in countries the offers pay for.
• You can name the source of every click and get each one approved.
• You can wait one to two weeks for your money without stress.

Skip it if:

• Your traffic is pop-unders, bought clicks or anything else you can't trace.
• What you're locking is "free" game currency, gift cards or anything that doesn't exist.
• Your audience is kids.
• One reversed week would hurt your rent.
• You're brand new to CPA and have nothing worth locking yet. Start with my post on CPA networks for beginners, then come back.

What OGAds is, and where it came from

OGAds didn't start as OGAds. It started as OGMobi. In a 2015 case study on the TUNE blog, CEO Tom Voitik dated its first month of running to August 2014 and credited HasOffers with carrying it through its early growth. The old name is still around if you look. The OGAds app's developer on Google Play is OGMobi LLC, and the publisher terms still sit on tracking.ogmobi.com.

The address OGAds lists is 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1212, on the Mart's 12th floor. It's a small Chicago team, and its people are public: the CEO is on record by name, and your affiliate manager's name, email and Telegram sit on the dashboard home screen.

What OGAds sells is simple, and the money is won or lost in two of these seven steps.

Where the money gets won or lost

1. A visitor hits your locker.
2. The locker shows offers for their device and country.
3. They complete one, and your content opens.
4. The advertiser reports the conversion, and it shows up in your stats.
5. The advertiser checks whether it got a real user. OGAds' terms give OGAds the final call on what counts.
6. Your earnings land on an invoice, and the invoice gets paid.
7. Even after that, the terms let OGAds charge a conversion back.

Keep your eye on steps 5 and 7. A conversion in your stats is one the advertiser hasn't argued with yet.

Getting approved

Approval is manual. Third-party guides put it anywhere from a few hours to about a week. Mine took a few days in 2016.

What I'd put in the application: the exact site or channel you'll send traffic from, where its visitors come from, and what you plan to lock. Be specific. Nobody can approve "social media."

If you get rejected: forum users say messaging an affiliate manager directly often turns a no into a yes. It costs you one email.

Once you're in: email your affiliate manager every traffic source you plan to use, and keep the replies. The publisher terms say every website or media outlet needs approval, and an email thread is your proof that yours got it.

Don't buy an account. There's a grey market selling OGAds "approval guides" and pre-verified accounts. Skip both. A bought account carries someone else's details, and you're the one who'll be asking Tipalti to pay you. It's a ban waiting to happen, with your balance inside it.

Don't test your own locker past one install. One install from your own phone shows you it works. Case file 4 below is a publisher who tested his way to a $30 balance and a ban.

Your first week on OGAds

OGAds' homepage says you can set up a locker in 5 minutes. True, as far as the locker goes. It's the quick part. Here is the whole first week in order, so you know where the time goes.

Day 1, apply. Name the exact site or channel, where its visitors come from, and what you'll lock. The section above covers what to write.

Then wait. Approval is manual, and the section above has the range.

Once you're in, set up Tipalti before you set up a locker. Tipalti is the processor behind every payout method, and it collects a tax form, a W-9 or a W-8 depending on where you live. Tipalti's own payee FAQ says a profile "may remain unpayable until the required form has been submitted and validated." Do it on day one, not the day your first invoice is due.

Build the locker. OGAds' docs give two ways to put a content locker on a page: paste its JavaScript into the page head, where it fires on load or when you call og_load() from a button, or send people to the locker's direct link. Pick the offer by network EPC, not by payout.

Buy a domain for it. OGAds' custom domain guide wants a brand-new domain with nothing else on it, so it's a second domain, not your main one. The Custom domains section below has the rules. Budget the price of one.

Wire the postback. Paste your URL under Tools, tag every link with its source in aff_sub, and log what comes back on your side.

Email your affiliate manager every traffic source and keep the reply.

Then wait for $50. OGAds' docs say no invoice is created until you've earned $50 in total. Under that, the Payments tab stays empty, and that's normal. Invoices cover Monday to Sunday and post on Tuesday. On Net-7, the invoice is paid the following Monday.

So after week one you've got a working locker, a payable Tipalti profile and a balance. If you clear $50 in week one and you're on Net-7, the first money lands in week three, and only if the advertiser doesn't argue with the conversions. On Net-30, it's the end of the month after the one you earned it in.

The tools

OGAds is more than lockers now. The 2026 dashboard has eight tools: Content Lockers, File Lockers, Captcha Lockers, Smart Links, GPT Sites, the Offer API, Custom Domains and the Postback URL. The old Offerwall tool is gone. GPT Builder is what replaced it.

Lockers

Lockers are the reason anyone signs up. A content locker covers a page, or part of one, until the visitor completes an offer. A file locker does the same for a download.

There's also a Captcha Locker. I haven't run one, so I can't tell you how it looks to a visitor. I'd be careful with it anyway. Fake "verify you're human" pages are a known scam pattern now (more on that in the Don't do this section), and a locker that looks like a captcha is one design choice away from one.

Smart Links

OGAds says Smart Links "redirect your visitor to the best offer for them," and you can customize which offers are in the mix. It's the easy option when you don't want to pick offers by hand.

Just know what it does and doesn't do. A Smart Link picks the offer. It doesn't launder the traffic. You still own every click you send it, which is exactly how case file 3 below went wrong.

Custom domains

You can run your tools on up to 20 domains you own. OGAds pitches three benefits: visitors trust your domain more, ad blockers catch it less, and you're not sharing a domain's reputation with other affiliates. That last one is the reason I'd set one up. A shared domain carries everyone else's history.

One rule the setup guide adds that the pitch doesn't: the domain has to be brand new, and you can't run a website or landing page on it. It goes on Cloudflare's free plan with SSL set to Flexible, and you point a CNAME at the value OGAds shows you. So "your own domain" means a second domain you buy for the lockers, not the site your visitors already know. Still worth it. A domain costs less than one bad week on a shared one.

GPT Builder

GPT Builder launched in September 2026. It builds you a branded get-paid-to site: your users complete offers, they earn, and you keep a margin you set on every conversion. It's the closest thing OGAds has to "no website needed." It's also a month old, so I'd let other people find its rough edges first.

Offer API and postback

The Offer API returns your live campaigns as JSON, using a bearer token. Keep that token private. Anyone who has it can pull your offer list.

Postback (server to server) is supported. Paste a URL and OGAds pings your server every time a lead converts. The macros include {offer_id}, {offer_name}, {payout}, {session_ip}, {source}, {aff_sub} through {aff_sub4}, {date} and {datetime}.

What I'd do with this: tag every link with your traffic source in aff_sub, and log the postbacks on your side. If OGAds ever asks where a spike came from, you want the answer in your own records, not only in theirs.

Stats and exports

Stats groups by hour, date, month, country, browser, device brand, device model, device OS, offer, each locker type, direct link, smart link and aff_sub. There's an Export button for CSV, and the referrals page exports too. If you've read somewhere that OGAds has no CSV export, that's out of date.

Neither Stats nor Recent Leads has a reversed or charged-back column. A chargeback only shows up as a smaller invoice, which is what case file 2 describes.

Which tools I'd set up first: a locker, a custom domain and the postback. The Offer API, Smart Links and GPT Builder can wait until the first one is making money.

Offers, geos and payouts

My dashboard showed 861 offers on October 19, 2026, counting capped ones. They fall into four categories: app installs (CPI), lead gen, email submits and PIN submits. Yes, PIN submits are still around in 2026.

If you're new to them: a PIN submit is a mobile offer where the visitor types in their phone number, gets a code by text, and enters it to confirm. The charge goes on their phone bill, usually as a subscription. That's why they're the easiest conversions to get and the easiest to lose. Case file 2 below is what losing them looks like.

Devices cover Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows. Mobile installs are still the bulk of it. But there are Windows desktop install offers too, so "desktop traffic earns nothing" is too strong.

The Incent label. A lot of offers are labeled Incent. OGAds runs incentivized offers, which makes sense for a locker network: every completion is rewarded, since the visitor does the offer to get your content. But the rule isn't network-wide. Each offer lists the traffic it allows. Read it before you send a click, every time.

How I'd read the offer list: filter by category, country and device, and switch on "show capped" if you want the full picture. Each offer shows its payout, your EPC, the network EPC and its cap. I look at network EPC first. It's what that offer earns per click across every publisher, so it tells you whether the offer converts at all before you've sent it anything.

For scale, on October 19: That's My Seat, an Android install for the US, paid $6.01. Goods Puzzle, an iOS install for the US, paid $3.50. LUDUS, an Android install for Vietnam, paid $0.07. There were 117 US offers that day.

What I'd do before applying: open your analytics and write down your top five countries and your phone-to-desktop split. That's the traffic OGAds is selling to advertisers. It decides which offers your visitors see and what they pay.

Payment terms and fees

OGAds pays through Tipalti. My account is on Net-7. If OGAds changes any of this, I'll update this section.

• Net-7: invoices are created by end of day Tuesday and paid the following Monday, or the next business day if Monday is a holiday.
• Net-30: invoices are created within 48 business hours of month end and paid on the last day of the month, or the next business day if that falls on a weekend or holiday.
• After an invoice says Paid: the Payments page says to allow up to 3 business days for the money to land. OGAds' help docs say Payoneer usually takes 1 to 3 hours, and ACH, wire and PayPal 24 to 48 hours.

From conversion to cash, on Net-7: invoices cover Monday to Sunday. A conversion on Wednesday closes with its week on Sunday. The invoice posts Tuesday and is paid the following Monday. On PayPal or ACH, allow another 24 to 48 hours, so the money is yours 13 or 14 days after the conversion. A Monday conversion waits the longest, 15 or 16 days. A Sunday one waits the shortest, 9 or 10. Call it two weeks. "Weekly" is true. "Paid in a week" isn't. Net-30 can take closer to two months.

Forum users say new accounts start on Net-30 and can ask for Net-7 after about $500 in earnings. I can't confirm that from my account. Ask your affiliate manager which terms you're on before you plan around a payday.

Minimum and fee, by method:

• ACH: $50 minimum, $1 fee
• PayPal: $50 minimum, $1 fee
• eCheck: $50 minimum, $5 fee
• Intercash: $50 minimum, $3 fee
• Payoneer: $50 minimum, $6 fee
• USDC: $65 minimum, $15 fee
• Wire: $200 minimum, $25 fee

Which methods you see depends on your country.

The fee as a share of a minimum invoice: $1 on $50 is 2%, and that's ACH or PayPal. Intercash is 6%. eCheck is 10%. Payoneer is 12%. USDC is $15 on its $65 minimum, so 23%. Wire isn't available until $200, and at $200 the $25 fee is 12.5%. Grow the invoice to $200 and ACH or PayPal drop to 0.5%, Payoneer to 3%, USDC to 7.5%. Wire's $25 is flat as well, so it falls with the invoice: 6.25% at $400.

Those are OGAds' fees. Tipalti's payee FAQ says the amount that lands can also be cut by foreign exchange conversion, your receiving bank's charges and intermediary bank fees. Outside the US, the fee on the list may not be the only one on the invoice.

Which method I'd pick: ACH or PayPal. $1 is the cheapest fee on the list at every invoice size. Wire is the most expensive at every size, $25 against $1, and you can't use it under $200 anyway.

USDC, the fine print. Per OGAds' crypto guide: USDC only, on Ethereum. The invoice has to clear the $65 minimum. You need to have received a non-crypto payment from OGAds in the past 90 days, so USDC can't be your first payout. Requests go in by Monday 10am Central or they slide a week. You get up to 3 wallet addresses. You set Tipalti to "Hold My Payments" first, or the invoice goes out through your default method. And the docs are blunt that the wallet address is your problem: "It is your sole responsibility to enter the correct wallet address."

Payoneer, the fine print. Your first invoice can't be paid through Payoneer, and Payoneer's review of your account can take up to three business days. Set it up before an invoice is due, not after.

Early payment

• 15% fee.
• Not available on your first invoice.
• No early payments to USDC.
• No early payment until you've earned $50 from the network. The $50 has to exist first.
• What's left after the fee still has to clear your method's minimum. On PayPal that means about $59 in your account before early payment is even an option.
• Turnaround: OGAds' docs give two answers. One article says within 24 hours on a weekday and up to 48 on a weekend. Another says within 48 hours, usually sooner, for requests Monday to Thursday, and by end of day Monday for weekend requests. Either way it's a day or two, not an hour.

What I'd do with this: skip it on Net-7, where it's 15% to get paid a few days sooner. On Net-30 it's 15% to skip most of a month. Still an expensive loan, but at least it's buying something.

Payment terms, in one place:

• Paid through: Tipalti
• Net-7: Invoice by end of day Tuesday, paid the following Monday
• Net-30: Invoice within 48 business hours of month end, paid the last day of the month
• After it says Paid: Up to 3 business days, depending on the method
• Minimum: $50, except USDC ($65) and wire ($200)
• Early payment: 15% fee, not on your first invoice, not to USDC
• Disputes: In writing, within 30 days of the invoice date, per the publisher terms
• Chargebacks: The publisher terms let OGAds charge back conversions it already paid

When a payment goes wrong

Three things that look like a ban from the inside and aren't.

• No invoice at all. OGAds' docs say no invoice is created until you've earned $50 in total. Under that, the Payments tab is empty, and nothing is wrong.
• Rejected by PayPal or Payoneer. Sometimes the provider flags your account and Tipalti can't pay it. OGAds emails you. The fix, per its docs: get PayPal or Payoneer to confirm the account is fine, screenshot that conversation, and send it through the support chat. OGAds won't re-send the payment until it has the screenshot.
• A wire that hasn't landed. OGAds' docs say wires typically post 2 to 3 days after they're sent. A Monday wire is a Wednesday arrival.

What I'd do with this: before you post the word "scam" anywhere, check which of the three you're in.

Does OGAds actually pay?

My side: 187 invoices

My first OGAds invoice was in August 2016. There have been 187 since, through June 2026, and every one is marked Paid.

The recent ones are small, about $50 to $65 every 4 to 6 weeks. That was true through February. The June invoice took 17 weeks to reach $50, and nothing has gone out since, because the balance hasn't reached $50 again. That's referral commission building up to the $50 minimum, not locker earnings. Not exciting. But I'll take ten boring years of on-time invoices over one big month.

No payment has ever been reversed on my account.

So when I read a ban thread, I don't read it as "OGAds doesn't pay." Something else is going on in those threads, and it's worth reading them closely.

Their side: five case files

Case file 1: $1,300, banned on day two. Back in 2016, a publisher on AffiliateFix said OGAds banned their account with more than $1,300 in it. They'd been sending pop traffic and woke up banned on the second day. OGAds' manager answered with data: one person installing the same app more than 20 times, from the same IPs. The thread was marked resolved, with "OGAds Provided Proof" in the title.

Case file 2: $416 became $176.80. In 2022, another AffiliateFix publisher said OGAds owed them about $416, roughly 80% of it from PIN submits. The PIN leads overlapped with other advertisers' and got charged back, and about $176.80 was paid out. (Another member of the forum disputed their version of events.) That's the PIN submit risk in one line: a lead in your stats today can be gone from your balance next week.

Case file 3: the Smart Link and the VPN offer. In 2018, a publisher said OGAds' Smart Link sent their US and Canadian Mac desktop traffic to a Hotspot Shield trial, a VPN offer, then banned them over the results. OGAds replied with the referrers: pop ad domains, plus adult and dating sites. OGAds offered a settlement. The publisher refused it, and the thread title says so.

Case file 4: the $30 test. A publisher on BlackHatWorld "tested" their own locker on their own devices, about $30 worth, and got banned. One reply did the math: a single test would have been one download, about $0.35. $30 isn't a test. It's an invoice.

Case file 5: June 2026, banned before payday. On June 9, 2026, a 1-star Trustpilot review said OGAds banned the reviewer's account and kept the earnings before the payout date, on what they called genuine Facebook traffic. OGAds replied on June 22: it couldn't verify the claim from the review alone, asked the reviewer to email so it could find the account, and said it wanted to judge the traffic fairly. No data was posted either way, so this one stays open. It's here because it's from this year, and because the shape hasn't changed since 2016: a balance, a ban, and OGAds asking to take it to email.

What the case files have in common

In the four that played out in public, OGAds had data the publisher didn't have, or didn't want to show. The fifth never got that far. In two of them, OGAds still paid out or offered part of the balance. OGAds isn't running off with balances. It's deciding what counts, with data you never see, under terms you agreed to.

Same thing I said at the top. OGAds pays, and OGAds decides what bad traffic is.

What Trustpilot says

OGAds had a 4.3 on Trustpilot from 49 reviews when I checked in October 2026. A dozen of those landed on June 22 and 23, 2026: 11 of them 5-star, 11 from accounts with one review each, most of them a single line. One more date for that calendar: OGAds' reply to the June 9 one-star review in case file 5 is dated June 22, the first of those two days. I'm not accusing anyone of anything. That's just the timing, and you should know it when you read the score. Trustpilot also shows OGAds has replied to 100% of its negative reviews.

What I'd do with it: read the 1-star reviews and OGAds' replies side by side. It's the same argument as the case files, told from both ends.

The rules you're agreeing to

I'd bet most publishers never read the publisher agreement. One complained on a forum back in 2020 that it only showed at signup. Finding it now takes some digging. The version I found is the Terms & Conditions page on tracking.ogmobi.com, which names OG Technologies as the company and says it was last revised in 2009.

In plain words, it says:

• OGAds decides which actions count, and what you're owed for them, at its sole discretion.
• It can "charge back to your account any previously paid Qualified Actions."
• If it decides you broke the agreement, it can withhold and freeze your unpaid commissions, whether or not those commissions came from the breach.
• Disputes have to be in writing within 30 days of the invoice date.
• Every website or media outlet you use needs approval.
• Fake content, adult content, viruses and promoting on eBay are banned, and breaking those rules means termination and loss of earnings.
• Commissions are paid monthly over $50.

That last line is out of date. The dashboard runs Net-7 and Net-30. The homepage is behind too: it lists five payout methods (crypto, PayPal, wire, direct deposit and e-cheque), and the dashboard shows seven. When the contract, the homepage and the dashboard disagree, I go by the dashboard, since that's what has actually paid me.

OGAds' Learn site has its own terms of service, updated June 6, 2023: OGAds can deny access "for any reason or for no reason," disputes go to binding AAA arbitration in Illinois with a class-action waiver, and there's a non-disparagement line. Those terms cover learn.ogads.com, and they may not be the contract behind your payouts. They do tell you how OGAds' lawyers write.

I checked the dashboard on October 19 and couldn't find the agreement anywhere inside it. It isn't in the menus or the Help page, and members.ogads.com/terms is a 404. The copy on tracking.ogmobi.com is the one you'll find.

What I'd do with this: read the agreement before your first click and save a dated copy. The 30-day dispute window starts on the invoice date, not the day you notice something's wrong.

Perks nobody talks about

Most OGAds reviews stop at the payouts. The dashboard has a lot more going on.

• Rewards. Points redeem for $400 in cash at 40,000 points, or for merch (shirts, hoodies, hats) at about 1,660 to 4,250 points. Each reward can be redeemed up to 5 times a year, reset on your signup anniversary. The page never says what earns a point. I have 631 points, so the $400 is a while off.
• Achievements and raffles. Achievements earn raffle tickets. A few of them: $3,000 a week two weeks running, $200 a day for 10 days, $100 in 10 countries, $5,000 in a month, 25% month-over-month growth, and 5 referrals in a month.
• Leaderboards. Top 10 all time, this month, last month and new affiliates. The amounts are masked.
• Squads. Mentorship groups led by top publishers. Dr0ps Squad's leader shows $1,254,939 in earnings and teaches TikTok ads, TikTok organic and YouTube. Flygon's Squad's leader shows $166,187 and teaches TikTok, YouTube and SEO. Advanced publishers can apply to lead one.
• OGAds Learn. 12 free courses at learn.ogads.com. The ones I'd open first: OGAds Setup Guide, API In Depth, How To Find Niches and the GPT Builder course. The rest are traffic playbooks for Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.
• People. Live chat inside the dashboard, with bot commands for your daily stats and rank, plus a Discord and a named affiliate manager whose email and Telegram are on the home screen.

One caution on the courses. A YouTube ranking course from OGAds doesn't change YouTube's spam policy. Learn the traffic skills, and keep the platform rules from the last section in mind.

My results

My numbers aren't flashy, and I'd rather show you the real ones than dress up 2018.

• Publisher since: 2016. First invoice in August 2016.
• Invoices: 187, all Paid, through June 2026.
• Recent invoices: about $50 to $65, and slowing.
• Referrals: 94 publishers signed up through my links, and 64 of them have earned. The referral commission column adds up to about $10,500. The column is labeled Commission with no date range, so I read it as lifetime. One referral accounts for about $4,900 of it and another for about $3,400, so two publishers are most of the 5%.
• Locker traffic: none right now. My lockers date to 2017 and 2018, and they earned $0 in the past 3 months.

So here's what I can vouch for: OGAds has paid me, on schedule, for ten years. What I can't vouch for is what a locker converts in 2026, because I'm not running one.

OGAds vs CPAGrip vs AdBlueMedia (CPABuild) vs CPAlead

OGAds vs CPAGrip: CPAGrip says it has been around since 2013, and it sits at 3.5 on Trustpilot from 116 reviews. Its terms make Net-30 the standard, with Net-15 and Net-7 for publishers who earn consistently. Its homepage also lists a video locker, offer walls and a virtual currency tool, which is the reason to look at it if you run a game or app with its own currency. If most of your traffic is phones, OGAds' offer mix is the more natural fit.

The AdBlueMedia column comes with a story. In August 2023, Wired reported on a scam that had run for years: PDFs promising free Fortnite skins and Roblox currency, uploaded to thousands of websites, federal agency sites included. As AdExchanger summed it up, researcher Zach Edwards traced it to CPABuild's affiliates. CPABuild now operates as AdBlueMedia. Nothing I found ties OGAds to that story. I bring it up for the contrast: OGAds puts its Chicago address and its people's names in public.

OGAds vs AdBlueMedia (CPABuild): after the Wired story and a 1.6 on Trustpilot, I can't recommend it right now. That's awkward, because I once did. My CPABuild review scored it 9.6 and was last updated in January 2023. It predates the Wired story and the rebrand to AdBlueMedia, and it's due for a rewrite.

OGAds vs CPAlead: CPAlead says it has run since 2006 and pays every 24 hours, and it sits at 4.1 on Trustpilot from 280 reviews, the biggest sample of the four. I haven't used it, so I'm listing it, not rating it.

Which network I'd pick: OGAds, for phone traffic you own, because it's the one I can back up with my own invoices. Whichever you pick, read that network's actual terms and payment page, not a directory listing. You've seen how different those can be.

OGAds FAQ

Is OGAds legit?

Yes. OGAds has paid me 187 invoices since 2016, every one marked Paid. It lists a Merchandise Mart address in Chicago and names the affiliate managers you can email. Legit doesn't mean every conversion gets paid, though. Its terms let it reverse conversions and freeze earnings at its sole discretion.

Does OGAds pay?

Yes, through Tipalti, on Net-7 or Net-30 depending on your account. Net-7 invoices are created on Tuesday and paid the following Monday. Most publishers who say OGAds didn't pay them describe a ban or a chargeback after their traffic was flagged.

Does OGAds pay through PayPal?

Yes. PayPal has a $50 minimum and a $1 fee, and payments go out through Tipalti. Once an invoice is marked Paid, PayPal usually takes 24 to 48 hours to land.

Is OGAds free to join?

There's no fee to apply or to use the dashboard. Your costs are a domain for the lockers and the fee on each payout, which is $1 on ACH or PayPal.

What is the OGAds minimum payout?

$50. OGAds' docs say no invoice is created until you've earned that in total, so under $50 the Payments tab is empty. USDC needs $65 and wire needs $200.

Does OGAds pay in crypto?

USDC only, on Ethereum, with a $65 minimum and a $15 fee. You also need a non-crypto payment from OGAds in the past 90 days first, so it can't be your first payout.

Does OGAds have an app?

Yes. OGAds Earnings is on the App Store and Google Play under OGMobi LLC. The App Store listing shows stats by country, device and day, payment history as PDFs, and the manager chat, and it sits at 4.1 from 20 ratings.

How much does OGAds pay per offer?

It depends on the offer, the country and the device. The offer list shows each offer's payout next to your EPC and the network EPC. Network EPC tells you more than payout does, because it's what the offer actually earns per click across every publisher.

How long does OGAds approval take?

Approval is manual, and third-party guides say anywhere from a few hours to about a week. Mine took a few days. If you're rejected, forum users say messaging an affiliate manager directly often gets the decision changed.

Can you use OGAds without a website?

Yes, with care. Smart Links and direct links work as plain URLs, and GPT Builder, launched in September 2026, builds a get-paid-to site for you. Every traffic source still needs approval, and platforms like YouTube have their own rules about links that only exist to push people off-site.

Why was my OGAds conversion reversed?

Because the advertiser decided it wasn't the user it paid for, and OGAds' terms give it sole discretion over what counts. Common triggers in the cases I've read: the same device converting again and again, pop traffic, PIN submits that got matched against other advertisers, testing your own locker, and traffic sources you never got approved.

What traffic is banned on OGAds?

The publisher terms ban spam, bots, fake content, adult content and promoting on eBay, and every website or media outlet needs approval. Past that, allowed traffic is set offer by offer, including whether incentivized traffic is allowed. Check each offer before you send a click.

OGAds vs CPAGrip vs CPABuild: which is better?

For phone traffic you own, I'd start with OGAds, since it's the network I can back up with ten years of paid invoices. CPAGrip makes more sense for a game or app with its own currency, though its standard terms are Net-30. CPABuild now operates as AdBlueMedia, sits at 1.6 on Trustpilot, and its affiliates were behind the fake PDF scam Wired reported in 2023, so I'd skip it for now.

Final thoughts

In 2016 I told you to sign up with OGAds. Ten years and 187 invoices later, I'd tell you the same thing. What I can add now is who it pays and who it doesn't, and that's what this review is for.

OGAds pays. What it won't do is pay for traffic it decides is bad, and it makes that call with its own data, under its own rules. Read the five case files with that in mind and every one of them makes sense.

Your first step: before you apply, open your analytics and write down your top five countries, your phone-to-desktop split and every place your traffic comes from. If you can't fill in that last one, you're not ready yet.

Like I said in 2016, OGAds is where I'd start. Sign up, send traffic you can explain, and keep your own records.

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