The sales person was totally sold out and that's why I gave this marketing company a shot. I'm giving 2 stars because of the sales person and the easy set up. Beyond that I should have just burned the money I spent, at least I would have gotten some heat out of it. I want to cancel but when I call their customer service number I wait on hold forever and then get sent to voice mail which they will respond to "in 3 business days". This may work in some markets but from the reviews I'm doubting it. I REALLY didn't want to do this at all and now I'm feeling like a chump. Spend your marketing dollars elsewhere. I was able to get in touch with a customer service rep and was told my account/subscription has been cancelled. I just wanted to update the review to be fair. read more

SCAM! Would give negative stars if I could.. Cameron Dudman convinced me to sign up and said I could get a refund if cancel within a week. Other team members such as Giovanna lie and say they can't refund. I've learned from the top advertisers in online marketing with Facebook and Google and Datasphere numbers are all randomly generated to make it seem like it is working... Rather would have gave this money to the homeless and actually get a return to helping others, however, Datasphere team is known to screw people. read more

DataSphere - Marketing Near Me

To all the new, existing, and past customers who have been fooled by this company, please join me in creating a class action lawsuit against this company. Like so many before and dating back so far, I received a call from a man named Jon Cummins who said he advertise on a local 11 News channel, which gave me the impression that this is a legitimate company. He even lead me to the news website, showed me where to click to get to demos of all the advertisements, to make it appear legit. All seems great so I, of course, signed up! The first red flag should've been on the contract, when I saw Sinclair was where I received Jon's email from but the contract was with DataSphere. Nevertheless, thinking it's because they contract their services through DataSphere, to do the technical stuffs, I brushed it aside. Before talking to Jon, I had done my own advertisements via Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and Yelp Ads, which can add up quickly, so when I heard from Jon that their service provided all these services for a mere, introductory offer of around $400 a month, I thought it was a great deal. Unbeknownst to me, what they're providing is fake (that's right!) fake visitors! They're mistake is dealing with someone who's also very technical and was wanting to offset the work to them, for the price they were offering. For the 1st month, I immediately saw a downturn in visitors as well as customers to my physical store and reached out to them to inquire. With how many years they've been doing this, they obviously knew all the right ways to give you the runaround. At first, I thought they made a mistake somewhere because I searched and could easily find my Google ads but not theirs. I repeatedly sent emails to DataSphere's support team, and even to Jon Cummins, trying to get them to fix it. They gave me one excuse after another so I stopped bothering to verifying it that way but instead, using my technical expertise as a web developer, asked them to prove where I'm getting all these so called Actions from but am not seeing any visitors to my site. I asked for concrete evidence because anyone can easily manipulate their dashboard so they offered to direct all ad traffic to my site instead, which I thought was very sincere and would be great. All I cared about at the stage was that I was getting what I paid for. For the first 2 weeks, I indeed saw a huge increase in traffic to my site, which is great because my Google Ads were not garnering as many visitors, even when I was offering a 50% off, grand opening special! I thought they must be doing something right and better. However, how come I wasn't getting as many new customers as before? I started to wonder if these visitors are really visitors but it wasn't easy to tell because I was getting traffic from many different sources on the web. To work around that, I created a specific landing page for DS and had them redirect all DataSphere ad clicks to that page instead. That page requires the user to click on a service they're interested in, so I know they're real. After the 1st week, I had maybe 70 visitors but those, about 2 actually clicked on anything. This gave me the impression that these were not real visitors so I questioned the company. I told and asked them, why is it that my actual site, where I received visitors from the web, shows over 99% activity while users, supposedly coming from them and landing on my DS page, showed maybe 1% activity? They visited my landing page and their excuse was that the landing page didn't look like the main page. Fine, again, they're messing with someone with the technical expertise so I created an exact replica of my actual site, so that DS has their own. Any visitor who lands on the DS page will remain in the DS area, while perusing my site. After 1 week, with enough evidence, I again came back to them but this time they can no longer come up with an excuse because I have data from Google Analytics to back me up. As of this writing, my data shows 50 landings on the DS page and 1 landing other pages, in other words, a real user who's perusing the site. Of my 28 landings on my main site, I get 28 who visited my services page and varying amounts on the other pages. In other words, all of my actual site landings are real users while 1 out of 50 from DS is real. I know better than to cancel my contract because they will charge me 40% of the remainder and this is where they can get away with it. I'm holding onto my contract as I build evidence against them and I'm not afraid to let them know about it either. I repeatedly told them I was building a case against them and expect to get every penny back. I will be reporting them to the BBB as well as the FTC because this is clearly a case of false, if not fraudulent advertisement. Given the number of users who have been jilted and those who might not be aware, please reach out to me and we can team up for a class action lawsuit against this company! read more

DataSphere - Actual Site vs. DataSphere Site Visits - Marketing Near Me

THE MOST PROFITABLE SCAM...FOR THEM! After receiving a call from a rep offering me the opportunity to advertise, I was hesitant because it was very expensive. She told me everything I would get and i would have an ad on wtsp. One lie I was told was that I can have 3 different add banners circulating throughout the web at a time. It will show up on Google, Facebook, games, apps and so on. Not to mention, i could put on my site "as seen on wtsp" and direct clients to my ad. These are just two lies I was told and the two that sold me to signing up. 1 week in and I realized I did not get anything she promised. I reached out to sales rep and she never responded to my emails. I made multiple attempts to contact the company to speak with a manager to resolve. Each time I was told someone would call me back and I waited weeks in between I finally called back and asked them to cancel my account FOR THE SECOND TIME. But, you're bound to a contract. You cannot run multiple ads at a time. Its one ad through the local saver. 1st. I didn't sign up to spend $249 per month to advertise to people clipping coupons in local saver. It would be cheaper to use groupon. 2nd. The most inexperienced person can make a better ad banner using canva. And what you say and the type of promotion is pre-set. So , you can't customize the type of deal you want to offer. Its either a dollar amount off or a percentage. I was told that I can create a customized ads and their designer would do the graphics for free if I dont want to. 3rd. There is no way to see your ad so you definitely cannot say "as seen on wtsp" because your ad never shows up. Apparently, it's a rotating ad, but there is no way to prove if anyone ever sees it. 4. There is no way to track actions taken on your ad. You are trusting it's not the company just clicking. They tell you you will get a free month if you don't receive 40 customer actions. There was nothing unto the end of the month, right before billing. 5. I received 0 traffic to my website, 0! Still to this day, 5 months later, not 1 visitor to my website! Not 1 call or email. I get multiple visits from yelp, Facebook, Google etc for free! When I run an ad on Yelp or Facebook, I at least increase traffic to my site tremendously, which is brand awareness. THE ONLY THING YOU WILL GET GROIN THIS COMPANY IS AN EMPTY WALLET! read more

If I could give negative stars, I would.... They promise great things upfront, lock you in a year contract, and then their marketing approach brings in little to no results. When I tried to reach out regarding my dissatisfaction with the results, they reduced my contract, but would not let me out of it unless I paid 40% of the what was left on the contract.... So far, I've paid thousands of dollars for a few phone calls. When I explained this to them they said there was nothing they could do. read more

This company is harassing me and my employees, calling over and over. Here is our email exchange so far: #1 No thank you, if we are interested we will contact you again, you can take me off your marketing list then more letters and phone calls #2 What the HELL is wrong with your company? The phone rep called repeatedly after I told her explicitly I was "NOT INTERESTED" Then she threatened to send me a bill,There is a reason I am not working with your company and it is your terrible online reviews, I don't need another scam company harassing me and my employees. I hope you are embarrassed by your companies reputation, I know how you earned it. https://www.yelp.com/biz/datasphere-technologies-bellevue I NEVER want to hear from you again, Am I clear?? more letters what the hell is wrong with them? read more

This company is beyond a scam they are VULTURES with no spine. As I read the comments its not only upsetting that the company continues to scam people by LYING and saying they are a "local news station" (which they dont have any affiliation with ANY news station) that can help promote your businesses but what really makes me mad is that there hasnt been a class action lawsuit filed against them. Pure evil. Their videos look fake, come to find out they aren't even sponsored by the major companies listed on their site. And everyone says they are told to pay $2000 to cancel. DO NOT DO IT. Its not just Yelp but BBB (Better Business Bureau) reviews say the same. They are not to be trusted. read more

Yelp should invest in a 0 star for companies/businesses such as this one. Datasphere is full of crap! They called me selling a hot item stating they're from my local new station [WWL TV New Orleans]. Of course as a business owner, I'd like to see growth with potential clients from great marketing. On average, my business gets about 5 soliciting calls per day. The day I chose Datasphere as my marketing company was one of the WORST mistakes I could've ever done. Now mind you, I just cancelled my account less than 2 weeks before with another so-called "marketing" company. I was completely devastated! I paid them $2500 for a weak "commercial" and a fake website. They told me to take advantage of the 50% on board discount. I did. TERRIBLE mistake on my part. I just had gotten got. :( dang. When I called customer service for a refund, it was like pulling teeth. They told me in order for me to receive anything back, I'd have to pay for the remaining months at the full price. Really ruined my trust with marketing companies. They're not even BBB accredited. Trust me when I say this, DO NOT, no matter how much of a discount you score, BUY IN THEIR SCAM!! I should've surely read the reviews before purchasing yet another SCAM! read more

Same as everyone else. Big claims but all bs. How is it that a company can claim to help us with our business when they can't even help their own business read more

Don't waste your money.... We signed a contract that our ad would be listed on 13 different sites. Without telling us, the next month, DataSphere switched it to only 4 sites. We didn't notice till month later. On top of that, our ad would rarely show up at the bottom of one site, and was no where to be found on other sites. The stats of how many views and interactions seemed to be false. It said 11,000 interactions with our ad happened in one day, yet we did not receive any business during the entire contract from their advertisement. DataSphere is a complete waste of money, and their business model is out of integrity. read more

this company with khou has created a marketing scam which produces no result and charges you $229 a month. Now if i want to cancel then i have to pay 40% of the months left that would be close to $1000. how can this type of business survive. read more

Would not recommend this marketing company to anyone. I just ended a 6 month long commitment with data sphere. I can honestly say my business got 0 return A waste of money sadly I will never get back. read more

Total rip off, scam don't use them. They offered for me to try it for a month and then continued to keep billing me. They got away with a lot of my money before I caught the fact they were billing me. Should be a zero star read more

After trying to reach these con artist for over two months I finally receive a call from a lady by the name of Victoria who was rude on the phone and hung up the phone on me. They have been charging me $593.11 for the past few months with absolutely no service done. read more

Positive reviews MUST BE FAKE and I would leave ZERO stars if I could. This company is a massive scam and I can't imagine that they have a happy client who knows about data-driven marketing out there. The previous marketing team in my current company hired them 3 years ago without looking at online reviews and I am having to clean house. First, if you don't cancel your contract they will continue charging you. Make sure you read the contract and that you cancel promptly as they are not like most vendors who always follow up about renewing--they are happy to continue taking your money with little to no results. Second, we've been charged for the last 3 years and all the customer service team was able to produce was a screenshot of the last 30 days of analytics. It felt more like a "just send her something" than a "how can we solve her issue" kind of slap in the face. They definitively don't care about your business, all they care about is collecting paychecks. Third, I cannot find any sort of trace of traffic coming from them or any vendor I don't recognize in my company's Google Analytics. So either the screenshot they sent me is fake or their analytics software straight up sucks. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on this one and assume what they sent me is real, and yet, I can't trace any traffic back to us from them. In conclusion: don't waste your money on them. You're better off throwing it away. read more

SCAM, FALSE, MISLEADING, DECEPTIVE!!! After multiple cold calls coming to my business from Datasphere Technologies I spoke with Kelli Skeim a sales representative from DataSphere technologies. Because these calls were taken on our business phone line all conversations were recorded. Kelli stated that my marketing package would include a live action video. I asked her multiple times if the video would be a moving production with actors and she stated "yes". She then sent me a link of examples videos of what my video would look like. https://events.datasphere.com/?#/KVUEds/tds/7789164/Videos/videosamples After logging into my dashboard I see a video that was just a slideshow. I then call customer support at Datasphere where I spoke with another rep. I told this rep that I was told that my video would not be a slideshow (montage) and she placed me on hold to check. The rep then came back on the line to confirm that I would have a live action video. She stated "the live production will be stock live video" *(please note all these conversations were recorded). The rep told me my production manager would replace the slideshow for the action video. This was never done. I was also told by Kelli that a rep would log into my Wordpress and upload the video to my website for me. Once I asked Dataspehere to do this they stated that they only provide the code for the video. This was yet another lie and where I drew the line of being lied to. Additionally, after expressing my concerns to a customer service rep at Dataspehere only days of my initial payment and I was told they would look into everything and give me a call right back. I never received a call back. I did not sign any contract and should be immediately refunded and released from future services from DataSphere Technologies. Please note the rights of the consumer (myself) Under the DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT (DTPC) ? Unlawful Acts - False, misleading or deceptive acts read more

This product is garbage. Literally they lock you into a 1 year contract that you can't get out of and charge your credit card each month. They will dodge your phone calls. They are trained to get you to say "yes", get your credit card info and hang up. They don't want to answer any questions about the product because they know that it could all be done for free, on your own in about 4 hours. An 8 year old that barely knows how to use a computer can market better than this "company", I mean scam. read more

Worst company EVER. Scam does not begin to tell the story. Reading the other reviews sounds like they are talking about my experience. This isn't even a real company, they only exist to scam small businesses out of money. They could not substantiate any of the supposed "advertisements" that were supposed to be run, absolutely no calls came in the minute I signed up with them until I cancelled. Spoke with "customer service" numerous times. One rep just hung up on me when I pointed out that what she was saying was simply a lie. The next rep apologized profusely, but did nothing to change the situation and all but admitted his company is a scam. If I had the time and resources I would organize the class action myself. read more

IF THERE WAS 0 STARS THAT WOULD BE MY OPTION. BIG F***ING NO. THESE GUYS LEGITIMATELY ARE A SCAM. They called and sold me something when I was in the field working, When I called back to understand the what I purchased, I was told that I am screwed into a 1 year contract even though that was not explained to me. FIRSTLY THEY DO NOT RECORD CALLS, so anything that is told to you IS A LIE over the phone. Olya, my sales agent was extremely fast spoken and you could barely understand her. Stephanie is supposedly the "floor manager," but she can't help me in any way shape or form. They both tell me I'm out of luck and there is literally nothing they can do. I RECOMMEND NEVER WORKING WITH THIS COMPANY. THEY ARE LIARS AND WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY. Learn from my experience. THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER read more

Absolutely terrible. Not a single call, email, or text from there "marketing". They just take your money and run with empty promises.

I DO NOT recommend this company to anyone. Datasphere is running a huge scam and taking small business owners' money. They reached out stating they were with the local news station and gave the impression that my advertisement space on the Local News websites homepage was going to belong solely to my business. Now that the ad is live, I've visited the page and seen other ads and seen that this is cycling between many different ads (mine has yet to even show up). read more

They are a Scam. I got scammed a whole year of $199 from them and they absolutely didn't do anything for me...False promising and misleading as well from the sale reps. They said it was from Channel 14 that want to help all the local business spread the words out there by doing video, but end up I got a slideshow instead...Just stay away they won't let you out of the contrast at all and don't care about your business just scam you for a year. read more

0 STARS - This company is disgusting for what it does to people! They overdrafted my bank account by hundreds of dollars after i refused to pay them for a second month of garbage stock google image ads and a cheap crap montage video when you believed you would be working with a real in person video team. I have gotten 0 clients booked through them and they REFUSE to let you cancel no if and or buts they WILL NOT LET YOU CANCEL. It's a week before Christmas and now me and my family are flat broke. Do not trust them! THEY ARE HEARTLESS SCAMMING THIEVES. I have reported them to the Better Business Bureau and you should too they have 200 open complaints and 48 just from this year. read more

Horrible. Don't use them!!! Scammed me into signing up with their 100% guarantee. 4 months in and I have 0 results. Don't waste your money. Scam scam scam read more

I would not recommend working with DataSphere. We signed up for a year-long contract with them at $200/month and didn't receive ONE phone call from them. They'll parade "results" out, but people clicking on an ad and not moving any further through the funnel with your company isn't a result. It was a total rip off and I couldn't wait to get of the contract with them. Also, they also used that whole "you're our only A/C contractor in the area that we advertise for." Don't fall for it. You can find much better services elsewhere. read more

Fraud and scams. Complete lies to get you to signup and then require your social media passwords to set you up. Beware of this company who only plan is to acquire your client base. read more

I would NOT use this company again. Lots of empty promises. They bill your charge card without prior authorization. I signed a year contract for $1680.00, paid in full, BIG waste of money. Not one call. At the end of the contract they started billing my charge card again. They said it was automatic, built inside of their contract somewhere, God only knows. Refused to let me speak to supervisor. Be VERY careful when dealing with this company. This is my very first yelp review, very sad that it could have been a good one. After my review I was finally called and heard. They even refunded $100.00 to make up part of the last month they charged without my authorization. Thank you! read more

The people I spoke to were very nice, and of course they were lovely throughout the set-up phase, but I don't understand how they can sleep at night, when they KNOW once you sign up, you will get no results. I signed up for only 3 months, thankfully, and never got ONE hit for my business. I am watching my bank account to make sure they do not charge me this month. I am very sorry I gave them $618 of my hard-earned money. read more

A company that has to falsify claims on the product they sell to wrangle you into a 12 month contract is not a company that I will ever do business again. I was told this was to be a news report on a local business and it would be posted on the CH10 news website. The video is pre manufactured garbage and the placement of the advertizement is buried so deep within their junk pages and rotates between at LEAST 150 other ads. I looked for my ad countless times and never saw it once. This is not what I thought I was buying nor what they said they were selling. BEWARE!!! I am still paying for a service that does nothing for my community based business. SHAME ON YOU DATASPHERE!!!! You don't have a leg to stand on. I can see now the ugly face of you advertizing phonies. I hope this makes more people aware of your poor business practices. read more

Do not do business with this company. Totally not trust worthy. When the sales person called, they represented them as from Channel 12 News. But it did not show that in the invoice. They collected the payment right away, even though the first consultation was 6 day's later. They posted a ad from their stock template right away. and called it live. It took me few days to evaluate their services. Could not find my ad. The sales person told me because the ad space was shared with 20+ more advertiser. Guarantee 45 view to my web site in a month. This has been two weeks now. Only 7 views. This company collected money without wasting any time. Cannot cancelled even in two weeks time. Not trust worthy. They are scammers. read more

The friendliest sales people you'll ever come across - they seem to know you when they call you. "Hi Liz! Your friend was here in our STUDIOS last week and was telling us all about YOU! We would LOVE to highlight your business in our 'Local Heroes' section on OUR news station's website!" Three things: 1) Datasphere is a marketing firm that PURCHASES ad space on local news websites that they then need to sell to others. 2) My friend WAS at the local news station, but YOU weren't!! You found me online and did a quick search of my public pages and connected the dots. (For those who are confused, that's a BOLD FACED LIE. And apparently it is totally ok to lie to folks to get what you want.) 3) That lie was just the beginning. They promise x-number of "actions" per month - but there is NO way to verify that those "actions" are actually taken. I can make a graph, too - and my spreadsheet doesn't require proof of legitimacy in my data points, either. They seem to provide you with great service in the first month, and they tell you that it might take up to 3 months for your ad to "gain traction", so by the time you realize that you haven't seen a single client from this marketing company, you are too angry to do anything and trapped in a 1 or 2 year contract (oh yeah, and you pay for that up front, because just like they thought when they called you in the first place, you ARE an idiot with a credit card - at least I was), YOU'RE also BROKE because you shifted money around to pay for these "guaranteed actions" before you realized that a click RARELY turns into a contract and now you can't even pay for the attorney who will simply tell you that it was "an expensive lesson". Don't spend your money here. Join a networking group, talk to people at your local house of worship, your kid's school, your college, etc. Think about how YOU would hire someone like you....would it be from a flashing square ad at the bottom of a news site? Make mine the last expensive lesson! Don't fall for it. The folks seem nice, but they are really angling to get their hands in your pocket, and they don't care AT ALL if you are successful. Stick with folks who actually care about YOUR business! read more

I was very disappointed with the quality of the automatically generated advertising provided. It required extensive work on my part to improve and customize it which still yielded absolutely NO results, even though I was guaranteed exclusivity for my specialty. What's worse, is that while I insisted on a fixed term contract on the condition that I would not otherwise agree to a contract, the contract included language that automatically extended the contract month-to-month after the term ended. My bad that I failed to notice the automatic renewal clause and cancel it on time, as they automatically charged me for an additional month of worthless advertising and refused to cancel the charges. read more

What a bait-and-switch scammy scam bunch of con-artists. They call pretending to be your local affiliate news station.. speaking vaguely as if they are going to do a story on your business. Then they rope you into this nonsense advertising agreement that does NOTHING. Honestly, you'd be better off buying air time on the dying business model of local TV. We got no hits from them. No sales. Nothing. I never saw our ad on the local affiliate web page. This company is completely unethical. We had to get the BBB involved to cancel this contract. read more

Please do not do business with DataSphere Tecnologies. they are a complete Gimick/Scam! Their customer service is terrible. I have had the run around for weeks. Giovanna, Brittany and any so called managers they have will NEVER call you back ever! Dont get involved with them! read more

Tried to get out from them, they told me I can't. I have to keep paying their services for 12 months. No cancellation policy. Worst customer service ever. They will not be on your side and trying to keep you stay with them just so they can take your money. Use Google adwords or Facebook ads instead. Please do me a favor. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH DATASPHERE. Use your money for something else. Give to the poor or something. Please DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THEM. read more

If I could give 0 stars I would!! This is a SCAM!!! RUN!!! They charged my card $159 for 5 months!! I never signed a 6 month contract!! Then when you call asking what the charges are for they are VERY RUDE and tell you that you are wrong!! OMG This company needs to be investigated!! They must deal with calls complaining about the unauthorized charges all day long because the employee on the phone just says the same thing over and over again "I will put in a request and someone will call you within 24 hours". I asked if I could talk to his manager and he said "my manager is not available". I asked him why their call center doesn't have a manager available. You just do NOT have a call center without a manager or someone to escalate calls to! I think this is a company of SCAM ARTISTS. They are quietly charging peoples cards and then when you call them they are rude and tell you that you are wrong!! WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!! DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY!! You will regret it I promise!!! Thinking of putting together a class action law suit. read more

Before you waste your money advertising here, unless 1800 per spot means absolutely nothing to you, let me say that you are throwing your money out the window. The "performance charts" the send you each month appear to be fake. Each month they report how well you are doing. This includes how many coupons are downloaded. I find this interesting that each month we have tons of coupons downloaded, which would be great but we have no coupons on line. We HAVE NEVER gotten a single referral after 20 months. Simply a huge waste of money. Better off throwing your money in the garbage. read more

Someone claiming to be with a local news station called and said my restaurant was chosen to be featured on their website and for $199/month, they would help bring me more customers. They guaranteed a certain amount of actions every month. They provided graphics to show all of the "traffic" they were generating to my business. Not one single customer ever said they found us on their website. If you want new customers, you will not get them with Datasphere. Yelp will bring you more customers than any other site out there. Promote Yelp to your customers and you will not be disappointed. I was very happy with the video they created, which is on my website. read more

This advertising company is a joke!!!! In the past 6 months I haven't gotten one customer from my so called advertising banners. I pay $200 a month for them to do absolutely nothing!! YOU WILL WASTE YOUR MONEY! That's why they make you sign a year contract, cause they're garbage!!!!!! read more

I had hi hopes for them started with 2 accounts one in Calfornia and the other in Phoenix Cali $199 x12 then down to 6 months after I complained about no calls ever AZ 699.00$ x 12 than 6 months after I complained that's $900 a month with no return on investment at all they show all kinds of actions which means NOTHING IF YOU CANT MAKE THE PHONE RING, like other advertising companies can do ??? I called they gave me a whole list of things to change on a site and coupons that they have constructed for 900$ a month I say you guys make the changes that is needed to keep the ROI The only thing this company is good at it DEBTING YOUR ACCOUNT stay away from these bait and switch operators they have great sales people until you sign and then YOU AINT SH** and I haven't seen any videos of my company on any media at all read more