Thursday, April 24, 2003
Seeing Some Cheesy/Stupid Ads? Here's Why...
Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 02:00 PM
I received an email today from Paul Ivaska. He has allowed me to share this message with you all. I think everyone needs to understand something about our advertising on the site. Here's the message from Paul:
"That was a truly crummy, cheap shot, advertisement. It is the Your Banner #184B6832 has won our hourly contest. You guys are way way above that type of stuff. I thought it would be of the quality that you usually have concerning contests but this was as about as low as you can get. It is no different than spamming me with garbage. Take that stuff off of your website before you loose friends and customers."
And here's my response:
"Sorry, that's the perils of third party ad servers like Tribal Fusion. We put up their code, and when we run out of paying advertisers, it rolls over to the Tribal Fusion stuff - and while they usually feed us technology-related ads, sometimes cheesy contest ads slip through. It's almost impossible for me to keep up on the ads they activate - they just appear. If I had paying advertisers to fill up our inventory on a consistent basis, I wouldn't need to use Tribal Fusion. :-("
I hope that explains why sometimes you'll see ads that might seem "beneath" our site. I try to block any of the "personal" ad types and the really lame ones, but it's almost impossible to keep up with them, so I'd ask for a bit of grace from each of you.
But if you all click on the good ads to check out what my REAL sponsors are offering, I won't need to rely on third party ad servers at all because we won't have a shortage of advertisers. :mrgreen:
"That was a truly crummy, cheap shot, advertisement. It is the Your Banner #184B6832 has won our hourly contest. You guys are way way above that type of stuff. I thought it would be of the quality that you usually have concerning contests but this was as about as low as you can get. It is no different than spamming me with garbage. Take that stuff off of your website before you loose friends and customers."
And here's my response:
"Sorry, that's the perils of third party ad servers like Tribal Fusion. We put up their code, and when we run out of paying advertisers, it rolls over to the Tribal Fusion stuff - and while they usually feed us technology-related ads, sometimes cheesy contest ads slip through. It's almost impossible for me to keep up on the ads they activate - they just appear. If I had paying advertisers to fill up our inventory on a consistent basis, I wouldn't need to use Tribal Fusion. :-("
I hope that explains why sometimes you'll see ads that might seem "beneath" our site. I try to block any of the "personal" ad types and the really lame ones, but it's almost impossible to keep up with them, so I'd ask for a bit of grace from each of you.
But if you all click on the good ads to check out what my REAL sponsors are offering, I won't need to rely on third party ad servers at all because we won't have a shortage of advertisers. :mrgreen:
