MintFunnel Review 2026: My Account Was Suspended, My Balance Voided, and No Proof Was Ever Shared

What happened to my account

I run coinprediction.ai, a crypto site with a mobile audience that comes from Facebook and X accounts I built myself. I placed MintFunnel ads on it and worked with them as a normal publisher. Whenever I noticed numbers that looked wrong on their dashboard, I reported it, and they acknowledged it.

In the second half of August their ads started running short. For almost a week they filled only 14 to 20 percent of my ad requests, while my pages kept asking for ads at the usual rate. When their ads came back around 30 August, my impressions went back to where they had been two weeks earlier. On their side that recovery looked like a sudden spike, and my account was suspended.

The notice told me to contact them. I did, the same day. Then nothing happened for 9 days. No reply, no question, no request for logs. During those days my ads were still being served and sold to advertisers.

I kept asking them to solve the problem. Only after many messages did a reply come, and it was a few words long: my account would not be recovered because the clicks from my site did not reach the advertiser sites. No log, no numbers, nothing attached.

1. 19 to 24 AugustMintFunnel fill drops to 14 to 20 percent. My ad requests stay normal.
2. Around 30 AugustTheir fill returns, impressions recover, and my account is flagged and suspended.
3. Same dayI contact support as told. No answer for 9 days while my ads keep running.
4. After repeated requestsA one line reply: the account will not be recovered because clicks did not reach advertisers.
5. 9 SeptemberI send a full delivery report and ask for the record behind each reason. They say they will check and send proof.
6. 9 to 14 SeptemberNo proof arrives. The message is only marked seen. The founder blocks me on X. Telegram goes unanswered.

The reason they gave: “clicks did not reach the advertiser”

This is the reason that ended my account, so it is worth slowing down and looking at what it really means.

A publisher's job ends when the ad is shown on the page and a real person taps it. From that moment the visitor is no longer on my site. They travel through MintFunnel's own click link, its redirect chain and its tracking domain, and only then land on the advertiser's page. I have no code anywhere in that path. I cannot see it, change it or break it.

So if a click is counted on MintFunnel's dashboard but never arrives at the advertiser, it was lost somewhere inside MintFunnel's own chain. The usual causes are well known in ad tech:

• a redirect that is too slow, so the visitor closes the page before it loads
• a tracking domain that mobile browsers or ad blockers stop
• a click counted at the moment of the tap instead of when the visitor arrives
• a click ID that is dropped on the way, so the advertiser cannot match the visit

If I were sending bots, the first thing I would teach them is to click, land on the advertiser's site and stay there. That is exactly what advertisers check. A click that is counted and then disappears is not what fake traffic looks like. It is what a broken tracking path looks like.

Think about it from the other side. Anyone faking clicks has every reason to make them look perfect on the advertiser's end, because that is where the money is checked. Fake clicks that vanish halfway would be caught on day one. It makes no sense as a way to cheat anyone.

MintFunnel never told me whether the problem was on its side or mine. It never shared a single log showing where the clicks went. In my opinion that means they do not know where the problem is, and a publisher's balance was voided to close the question.

Four reasons, and what my logs show

Over the course of our messages I was given four different reasons. Each one, if it were true, would leave a record behind. I asked for that record every time and nothing else. Here is each reason next to what my own server logs recorded.

Reason 1 “Your CTR was too high”

My click through rate was 0.16 percent: 1,673 clicks across 1,069,549 impressions. That is a low to ordinary rate for display ads, and it never jumps on any single day. I asked for the CTR figure they saw for my ad zones. It was not provided.

Reason 2 “Clicks did not reach the advertiser”

As explained above, everything after the tap runs on MintFunnel's servers. I asked for a click log for any one day so I could see where clicks were lost. It was not provided.

Reason 3 “The traffic was bots”

My logs show 154,608 sessions with an average of 111 seconds on the page. Session length changes from day to day and from country to country, which is how people behave and not how scripts behave. Fewer than 1 percent of sessions ended inside ten seconds without any scroll. I asked how many impressions they classed as invalid and for a sample. Not provided.

Reason 4 “The traffic was low quality”

The audience is mostly mobile and mostly from Asia, coming from crypto Facebook and X accounts I built, with under 10 percent paid. That is a question of targeting, not invalid traffic, and it was the same audience from the first day. I asked which standard it failed and why delivery continued after it failed. Not provided.

The “spike” was their fill rate, not my traffic

Two numbers matter here. Ad requests is how many times my pages asked MintFunnel for an ad. Filled is how many times they actually sent one. If my traffic had exploded, ad requests would jump. They did not.

On 16 August my pages sent 310,645 ad requests. On 30 August, the day my volume supposedly exploded, they sent 310,309. That is 336 fewer than two weeks earlier, about one tenth of one percent. My audience did not change. What changed was how many ads MintFunnel had to show.

Good enough to sell, not good enough to pay for

If my traffic was invalid, it was invalid on the first day. But delivery did not stop on the first day. After my account was flagged, MintFunnel kept serving ads on my pages for about five more days:

Together with 3 September that is roughly 520,000 impressions served after the suspension. Those impressions were sold to advertisers. The only side of the ledger that was set to zero was mine.

Is this bot traffic? Read the report yourself

I do not want anyone to take my word for it, so here is what the report shows. All of it was measured on my own servers between 8 August and 9 September 2026, not estimated.

Bots do not read. They load a page and leave, or they click and leave. My visitors stayed close to two minutes on average. Even on the busiest days, with 14,000 to 15,000 sessions, average time on page stayed between 60 and 88 seconds. If traffic were being pumped in, that number would fall hard as volume went up. It did not.

Viewability tells the same story. Mobile carried 1,032,648 impressions at 31.6 percent viewable, desktop 36,901 at 12.2 percent. That is what a real mobile audience that scrolls looks like. Here is where the impressions came from:

While preparing the report I found a fault in my own scroll depth metric on short landing pages. I removed that metric completely rather than let it make the numbers look better than they are.

Download the full delivery report (PDF)Raw per session logs are available on request.

What MintFunnel's publisher terms allow

Before you send traffic to any network, read its terms. These lines are quoted from mintfunnel.co/terms-publisher, last updated 20 August 2026.

“Mintfunnel may suspend or terminate access at any time, without notice, for violations of these Terms, suspected fraud, or security risks.”

“Nothing in this paragraph requires us to show that the traffic was fraudulent; it is enough that the placement was not approved.”

Earnings “may be withheld or reversed at any time, including after they appear in your balance and including where a payout request covering them is already pending.”

On appeals, the terms only say “we will review anything they send.” No response time is given. In my view this means a balance can be voided without showing any evidence and without any deadline to answer, which is exactly what happened to me.

I asked the founder in public, and he blocked me

On 9 September I was told proof would be sent. Five days later nothing had arrived and my message was only marked as seen. So I tagged MintFunnel's founder and CEO, Ty Smith (@TySmithHQ), on X and asked for the records.

Instead of an answer, I was blocked. My Telegram messages were not answered either.

I am not asking anyone to believe me over them. I am asking for the logs that any suspension decision must have produced. Blocking the question does not answer it.

What other MintFunnel reviews on Trustpilot say

I am not the only one with a bad experience. When I checked on 14 September 2026, MintFunnel had a 2.0 out of 5 score from 69 reviews on Trustpilot, and more than three out of four were 1 star.

Reading through them, the same complaints come up again and again:

• clicks on the advertiser dashboard that do not match visits in the advertiser's own analytics
• traffic that reviewers describe as bot like or not converting
• publisher accounts suspended with little notice or explanation
• balances withheld with reasons that change and no logs provided
• slow or missing replies from support; the company replied to 30 percent of negative reviews

These are summaries in my own words, not quotes. Read every review in full on Trustpilot.

Advice for advertisers thinking about MintFunnel

If you are an advertiser, this story matters to you more than to me. Here are the red flags I would check before spending anything:

• By MintFunnel's own explanation to me, clicks it counted did not reach advertiser pages. Ask for click level logs and match them to your own analytics.
• My inventory kept being sold for about five days after the account was flagged. Ask whether traffic later called invalid was refunded to you.
• The network could not tell me whether the click problem was on its side or the publisher's side.
• Three out of four Trustpilot reviews are 1 star, and several describe the same click mismatch.

My honest suggestion: if you want crypto traffic, go to networks with a longer public record and anti fraud systems strong enough to explain their own decisions. I have worked with both of these.

I have no paid relationship with either network and these are not affiliate links.

MintFunnel's right to reply

If MintFunnel provides any one of these records, a CTR figure for my zones, a click log for any single day, a count and sample of impressions classed invalid, or the standard my account failed and the date it failed, I will accept the decision, say so on this page just as clearly, and correct anything written here.

Corrections and responses: kingbloggers100@gmail.com