Emailed the contacts I made at the AdSense event, they said they'd look into it but never responded. Contacted my friends at Google who referred me to other AdSense employees, those contacts also ended up no longer responding to emails.
Going through the usual appeal process just returned automated messages, which also ended up in a dead end. So eventually we just moved on.
Funny enough, I was able to dig up an old blog post by the AdSense team with my photo: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2011/09/continuing-adsense-in-yo.... There's me holding up a big chalkboard, two weeks before getting banned off their platform. That was years ago, so I've since moved on but it was a good lesson learned.
That sounds extremely bad business. The display network, I presume, must be a sizable source of revenue. Basic email support with a turnaround time of say a week for accounts which have already earned some money is the least a publisher can expect. We need more competition.
Going through the usual appeal process just returned automated messages, which also ended up in a dead end. So eventually we just moved on.
Funny enough, I was able to dig up an old blog post by the AdSense team with my photo: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2011/09/continuing-adsense-in-yo.... There's me holding up a big chalkboard, two weeks before getting banned off their platform. That was years ago, so I've since moved on but it was a good lesson learned.