AdRoll Marketing & Advertising

Horrible, they ruin your website with all the pop-ups- the ruin the store do not use at all.

I am extremely disappointed with my experience using AdRoll for marketing and advertising. The app is incredibly confusing, and I believe it’s designed that way on purpose. Setting up my campaigns was a frustrating ordeal, but I managed to create two campaigns, hoping for a positive outcome. However, in just three days, with a click rate set at $0.10, I was billed nearly $500.

What did I get in return? Absolutely nothing. My return on investment was a staggering $0. This is incredibly disheartening, especially since the product I was advertising typically performs exceptionally well. When I use other advertising platforms, I consistently achieve a 6x return on my investment. This stark contrast makes AdRoll’s performance even more disappointing.

Not only did I waste a significant amount of money, but I also wasted my time. The lack of results and the confusing nature of the app make it clear that AdRoll is not a reliable platform for effective advertising. I would strongly advise others to steer clear of this app. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend AdRoll to anyone looking for a worthwhile advertising solution.

DO NOT USE!!!

UPDATE: they have confirmed the issue is present, their responsibility and they have overcharged by more than $4000, its been almost a week and they are still refusing to process the refund. Paypal has reached out to them with a refund request which they are ignoring. The excuse they're using is that they need to go through and investigate the cause. As if it's our companies responsibility to be out of pocket while they investigate their issue without processing the refund. I cannot stress this enough, DO NOT USE THIS BUSINESS!!

We used AdRoll to gauge what type of traffic comes through. We opened a contextual ad campaign with a budget of $4.00 per day, over the course of two days. The AdRoll spent $4276.00

I reached out to the company to point out the error and they confirmed it was an issue. A few days later they still charged it.

I reached out again and raised a dispute through Paypal business but they refuse to process the refund. Paypal have sent the refund request and they are using excuses like our engineers need to look into the issue etc.

It seems they have done this before to others and will use any means necessary to scam you.

I was unable to get adequate ad designs from the design team. After a period of weeks we decided not to continue with AdRoll. They made it a nightmare to get our data removed from their system. Think very carefully before allowing AdRoll to integrate with your store.

Steer clear as they figure out their re-branding. Not only do they track conversions based on impressions (customer sees the ad then purchases then they attribute the sale to their efforts...) After years of service, they suddenly installed a GDPR popup without consulting with us first. We are a Canadian company that does not do business in the EU. Total waste of time and lack of oversight.

I use this application but it is time for the software and platform experience to improve. They have very old ads, they must update the platform more, listen more to the client and stop seeing only their benefit. The ads show the comparative price instead of the actual price, it is a software disaster, they charge the money and the ads last forever to approve them, what kind of service is this? Shopify should not let these applications work under your shoulder, what they do is go to companies instead of helping them to get up. I do not recommend this application.

Spend $ 2000, only 25 website clicks. Very unsatisfied.
Made 6 campaigns but nothing. This is disappointing and losing money.

AD ROLL DOESN’T WORK. DON’T USE IT! They sucker you into buying a membership that you can’t get out of. There are other free options out there that works a lot better such as Taboola (which is the same platform they use), AdWords, MSN Ads and more. I signed up because I was given an account manager that helped me manage my account and I thought she was going to make this easy. Well, she helped me create ad campaigns and creatives with MISTAKES on it that were used in paid ads. I thought having an account manager was to help me, not for me to double check her work. She eventually stopped responding and I don’t know what happened to me. No one at Ad Roll said anything either. After complaining, Tatiana appeared and she has been wonderful in trying to help me. But ultimately, even with her excellent customer service and support, Ad Roll just doesn't work. She is trying to help me make this work, but until it works. I need to warn other Sellers about this platform because I wish I read the other 84 one star reviews before I paid for a membership. If they just refunded me, I would not have complained.

If you already paid for Ad Roll and find yourself in a similar situation, leave a 1 star review so we can contact each other to try find a way to get our refunds. Please feel free to reach out to me directly too.

I don’t write complaints, but this company is a scam and people need to stay away from them.

Update after AdRoll answer: Just proving this third party app recommended by Shopify is a scam. They claim I opted out to receive invoices which is something I never did and does not even make sense to have done. I have been working with Shopify and the app store since 5 years now and I have never had such issues and charges for an app we have never used: 80 USD per month! Unbelievable.

Be careful! This app is a total scam. There is NO free plan and if you uninstall it from Shopify store, they still charge you so you need to specifically cancel via their portal. Also, they DO NOT send invoices if you do not "tick" on a specific place in their settings so if you miss the payments in your account statement (like I did), they will continue charging you without giving you any notice even though you do not use their service at all. And no refund! I could not even run and test their service due to currency issues on their side. @Shopify, do you even read the feedback about the apps you offer on your store? I can see a lot of similar cases and no action taken neither by you, neither by Adroll.

I rarely take the time to write reviews, but this is definitely one of the worst-created platforms I've seen lately. It often doesn't work on my browser (chrome), it's incredible buggy, and often counter-intuitive. it's the only product where I will use a different browser to make things work, and something else will break. It never works the way I want it and in the meantime, the live chat agents are sending you 10 transcripts of your own frustration plus a customer survey. I can't put my finger on it, but this app just raises my blood pressure to boil.