What Campaigns Are Not Allowed on Sharklio

What campaigns are not allowed on Sharklio?

Sharklio does not accept campaigns for illegal, misleading or fraudulent offers, “get rich quick” schemes, adult or dating content, weapons, drugs, hate speech, phishing, malware or cryptocurrency mining. Tasks are also refused when they ask users to send money, crypto or gift cards, to hand over credentials or sensitive data, or to break the rules of another platform. Gambling is accepted only from licensed operators, under strict conditions.

These rules come from two places you agree to before submitting: the advertiser section of our Terms of Service, and the Campaign Rules shown in the campaign builder, which you accept with a checkbox when you choose Submit for review. This guide turns them into one list, explains the reason behind each, and suggests what to run instead.

Why Sharklio has prohibited categories

A task on the offerwall is shown to real people inside a publisher’s website or app, and they are rewarded for completing it. That raises the stakes in three ways. Users act on the task, so a harmful offer does real harm. Publishers put their own name next to the offerwall, so an offer that embarrasses them costs them their audience. And some users are as young as 16, the minimum age for the offerwall, so content that is fine for adults elsewhere does not belong here. Every campaign is reviewed by our staff before it goes live, and the rules below are what reviewers check against.

Prohibited advertising categories: the full list

The Terms also rule out campaigns that breach the rules of our partners, and staff may decline, pause or remove a campaign that breaches the Terms or the law even if it fits none of the rows above. When in doubt, describe your offer in Notes for our review team and let the reviewer decide.

Gambling: allowed only under conditions

Gambling, betting and casino campaigns are not banned outright, but they are the most tightly controlled category. All four conditions must be met:

1. The operator holds every license required in the territories the campaign targets.
2. Promoting gambling is lawful in those territories.
3. The campaign targets only people of legal gambling age and does not appeal to minors.
4. The campaign passes a case-by-case review, which may include a request for proof of license.

In practice, that means targeting only the countries your license covers and saying so in your notes to the review team. A gambling campaign sent back usually lacks one of the four, and the reviewer’s note will say which.

Tasks that break another platform’s rules

This rule catches more campaigns than any product category, because the product itself is often fine. The builder has categories for social media pages and communities, but paying for a follow, like, review or server join often breaks the rules of the platform where it happens, and tasks that make users break another platform’s terms are sent back. Store ratings and reviews are a common example; Can you pay for app reviews? explains what the app stores allow. The fix is almost always to reward an action on your own property instead.

What your task may ask for, and what you may do with it

The proof requirement sets the limit. A task may ask for what the proof requirement states and nothing more sensitive than the task needs: never passwords, login codes, private keys or recovery phrases, never card or bank details. The data you do receive has limits too: you may use completion details only to review, measure and improve that campaign, never to identify users, build profiles of them, or contact them outside the offer. Proof requirements for every task type has safe wording for each kind of task.

Allowed product, campaign still rejected?

Most campaigns that are sent back are not prohibited at all. They have instructions with no clear finish line, a proof requirement that does not say what must be visible, or a starting link that does not load. Those are fixable in minutes, and two guides cover them in depth: Why was my campaign rejected? goes through each common reason, and How to write task instructions that pass review shows before-and-after examples.

A quick way to tell the two apart: if the reviewer’s note asks you to change a field, the campaign can pass. If it says the offer itself is not allowed, no rewording will change that.

How to fix a campaign that was sent back

If the note names a rule from the list above, the fix is usually one of four edits: remove the countries where the offer is not lawful or licensed, add a referral disclosure to the instructions, cut a data request, or replace a direct download with a page. Put context reviewers cannot see on the page, such as your license or which countries your offer covers, in Notes for our review team, which users never see. Then choose Submit for review again. The full resubmission steps are in Why was my campaign rejected?

The rules keep applying after launch. Editing the task content of a live campaign sends it back to review, and staff can pause a live campaign that starts breaking the rules, for example because its landing page changed. Breaches of the Terms can lead to the suspension or closure of the account, and an account closed for a breach may not be replaced with a new one.

A pre-submit checklist

• The product is legal in every country you target, and you removed any where it is not.
• Nothing in the task is adult, dating, weapons, drugs or hate speech related.
• The user never sends money, crypto or gift cards, and never gives up a password, key or financial detail.
• The task does not reward something the destination platform forbids.
• A referral or affiliate starting link is disclosed in the instructions.
• The starting link opens a page, not a file download.
• For gambling: your license covers every targeted country, and the notes say so.

Frequently asked questions