Notice how revenue has grown, despite the decreased reliance on popups and popunders.

And exploding CPM for Targeted (google & overture) ads, along with the increased acceptance by many sites to use Pop-ups and Interstitial ads.

Looks amusing but they advertise Overture if you search for it in Google

Same thing if you search for adsense on Yahoo.

Neither appear to be affiliate links. Interesting...

floor9: Notice how revenue has grown, despite the decreased reliance on popups and popunders.

They are still used and have a higher CPM than your standard banners. Especially on sites that have many impressions but not many uniques and, well, nobody clicks on the banners.

/shoot the duck for a free ipod?

shoot the duck for a free ipod?

Dude, I personally know a guy who has this friend who signed up for one of those things and got a free house or something. It really worked. And he gets like $5000 a WEEK in commissions. HE works from home and all he has to do is manage other people, and he told me how I could get in on all it.

No, seriously, my MacBook Pro has been shipped. Those things actually work. And if more Internet advertising worked that way, I'd gladly participate. My eye time is valuable -- give me something in return and you can borrow my consideration (and possibly even earn a purchase) for a brief moment in time. Or, just keep shouting with popups and flashing banners, and you'll keep blending into the background static.

floor9

I'll sign up, but only if I get a P-P-P-Powerbook.

Thanks to Firefox, NoScript, and AdBlock, my total number of ads seen online per hour is roughly...(calculating)...zero point zero.

They do work, but you have to be smart and attentive to avoid spam and unwanted charges. Most people aren't attentive enough, so they make money.

As for the ads, they seem affiliate to me. Right-clicking an Overture one on Google, I got http://www.google.com/url?sa=l&ai=BTbtO_TtIRPCXCYa6qQLZg9z2Aoyu3AmAxeSxAY7rqAX gpxIIABABGAFIpTlQq5K26v3_____AZgBj4kDyAEBlQIaH0oK&q=http://clickserve.cc-dt.co m/link/click%3Flid%3D43000000000808373

An adsense one was http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5mC.PEhEHO8ASVRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0cWw2NmtoBGNvbG 8DdwRwb3MDMgRzZWMDb3YtdG9wBHZ0aWQDaTAyMl80OA--/SIG=1hd70sk48/EXP=1145671230/** http%3a//www11.overture.com/d/sr/%3fxargs=15KPjg1%252DtShJXyl%255FruNLbXU6TFhU Bby8Ljrp5wXM4kAIQKsyczErVwLfyE2ZYtFLhy7Xqhro2B%255FqFVaaFfqcbvcRP2NE7gep6Qjs6V k99SxpmRf8cTircvxvy6k4VLOncDamm5ftKoy%252DPPJNCKTXxIioYHuRvvj%255Fgf15kS8dc6Y% 252DKb1VN7%255F1XXI5kB7qUvl5TOX5h9O7VTe9jt4Cficp9Ezsosne30DhA%252DKSvTlh4O3l6H JzRp%252D6PNatQEzbL564vub%255FWhkdpXbU2b4qlu6wPoljzZkZw9O6ajuZEGnV8EVaPiaTjDjA M576PZiOSbJJUy5m%255FwJpXZFXPhIE95agZm0pPZFxHTfCEp4WqAcotEc82w%252Dyq8HraCGCIh JwIU7KfRRr14nGq2gn03VSqZWJ3B8DitAtYm3Br18myH2n1J%26yargs=www.google.com

so you really can't tell.

Solve_Et_CoagulaL "Thanks to Firefox, NoScript, and AdBlock"

Me too. I actually had to turn off a Greasemonkey script to even see the Google ads. I'd forgotten they were there...

superm401: http://www.google.com/url?sa=l&ai=BTbtO_TtIRPCXCYa6qQLZg9z2Aoyu3AmAxeSxAY7rqAX gpxIIABABGAFIpTlQq5K26v3_____AZgBj4kDyAEBlQIaH0oK&q=http://clickserve.cc-dt.co m/link/click%3Flid%3D43000000000808373

An adsense one was http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5mC.PEhEHO8ASVRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0cWw2NmtoBGNvbG 8DdwRwb3MDMgRzZWMDb3YtdG9wBHZ0aWQDaTAyMl80OA--/SIG=1hd70sk48/EXP=1145671230/** http%3a//www11.overture.com/d/sr/%3fxargs=15KPjg1%252DtShJXyl%255FruNLbXU6TFhU Bby8Ljrp5wXM4kAIQKsyczErVwLfyE2ZYtFLhy7Xqhro2B%255FqFVaaFfqcbvcRP2NE7gep6Qjs6V k99SxpmRf8cTircvxvy6k4VLOncDamm5ftKoy%252DPPJNCKTXxIioYHuRvvj%255Fgf15kS8dc6Y% 252DKb1VN7%255F1XXI5kB7qUvl5TOX5h9O7VTe9jt4Cficp9Ezsosne30DhA%252DKSvTlh4O3l6H JzRp%252D6PNatQEzbL564vub%255FWhkdpXbU2b4qlu6wPoljzZkZw9O6ajuZEGnV8EVaPiaTjDjA M576PZiOSbJJUy5m%255FwJpXZFXPhIE95agZm0pPZFxHTfCEp4WqAcotEc82w%252Dyq8HraCGCIh JwIU7KfRRr14nGq2gn03VSqZWJ3B8DitAtYm3Br18myH2n1J%26yargs=www.google.com

Gesundheit.

Is the no link thing intentional?

There could be a banner or commerical on a site telling me the sky was blue and I still wouldn't believe it.

floor9

OMG!!!11 If I send you my email address, then I can win that stuff too!!1!

The reason that online ad revenues are up is clearly the declining approval ratings of President Bush. Now, a record number of people are willing to knock him out in a flash game for a chance to win a free ringtone.

Firefox, NoScript, and AdBlock Plus - amen.

Hurm, you wouldn't think folks could afford all that stuff, on top of bank loans for homes and suv's and new cars and school and then cable tv and cell phones and ipods... what with gas prices being high and everyone moaning about it... I guess people just like to belly ache and feel that brief respite from the boredom of their work a day lives. Hmmmmm, cooooouuuuld beeeeee!

Robojesus wins the thread!

I think Jebus every day for Firefox + Flashblock, and now thanks to this thread, I'm trying out Noscpript also.

/oh, and I love killing stuff with Adblock

http://www.customizegoogle.com


* Use Google Suggest (suggest words while you're typing)
* Add links to competitors
* Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
* Removes image copying restrictions in Google Book Search
* Secure Gmail and Google Calendar, switch to https NEW
* Block Google Analytics cookies
* Hide the Gmail spam counter NEW

* Remove ads
* Anonymize your Google userid
* Add a result counter in search result
* Filter spammy websites from search results
* Add links to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
* Remove click tracking
* Add links from Google to your bookmark manager
* Use a fixed font for Gmail mail bodies NEW




http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers. This is accomplished by blocking the Server that supplies these little gems.

Solve_Et_Coagula: Thanks to Firefox, NoScript, and AdBlock, my total number of ads seen online per hour is roughly...(calculating)...zero point zero.

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True, but Adblock slows down Firefox like a mother, especially if you have Filterset. I didn't realize it until I disabled Adblock one day, and my browsing was instantaneous, especially on really long pages (like Fark flamewars). I still keep Adblock on because I've grown accustomed to how my favorite pages are displayed without ads, but it is a significant hit in performance.

I'm one of the cheap bastards that goes for high search engine ranking through content.

Paid placement is good, but personally I pick from the organic search results first.

Other than YouTube, anyone know any good internet TV that's free?

Ahh coolbuddy how i used to troll thee. Coolbuddy chat rules as does Knibb High football.

For the mac fans, try safari and pithhelmet.

Frankly, when I'm surfing the internet (either for school purposes or to avoid school work, as I'm doing right now) I love playing those games. I'm the best durn cattle roper in the library (although I'm sure it has a negative effect on my grades). I don't believe all that stuff about free ringtones and whatnot, though. I just like satisfaction that comes from helping W. pump - it - up.

/doesn't like W.
//doesn't like Arnold, either
///just innocently trying to avoid homework

Two sure-things when there's a discussion on Fark about online advertising:
1. Almost immediately, people will begin posting how awesome they are because they never see ads online.
2. Those same people are hardly ever TFers, and are basically freeloaders, not supporting Fark through either of its two main revenue sources.

Hypocracy sure is fun. "I hate advertising, but give me my free content!"

"I hate advertising, but give me my free content!"

If I'm never going to click on the ads anyway, why bother looking at them?

Crazy Chris The Nightmare Man, when's the last time you clicked on a TV ad or a newspaper ad?

Advertisers aren't just counting on people clicking. If you learn from an ad that Dr. Pepper has a new flavor, Dr. Pepper is happy whether you click or not.
By simply seeing an online ad, you're contributing to the advertiser's goals. And in the process, your ad view (impression) is helping to pay for the Web site's operation.

fark online ads. Google turned our site down. Something about "copyrighted material." Those asses. Pirates have bills to pay as well!

Hypocracy sure is fun. "I hate advertising, but give me my free content!"

I fail to see how those two statements contradict each other, that being a key part of hypocracy.

Popups are evil. Popunders are slightly less evil, but still crappy. Fortunately I never see any of 'em, because like many people here I use Mozilla + Adblock + Noscript. I will control how many browser windows are open, thank you very much.

As for in-page ads or banners, I let about half of 'em slide because sometimes they have information I might be interested in. Anything from doubleclick, pfft, blocked in a heartbeat, but I haven't blocked any of the banners at Penny Arcade. Well, except for the flash ones. For some reason flash banners strike me as extraordinarily offensive, and not just the ones that include sound. (Though thank God that's a trend that died out) If you really think you need all that flash can do in order to properly express why I need your product, then I don't need your product.

Keep sidebar ads, banner ads, and to some lesser extent inline ads. F%$# you and your popups and popunders.

2006-04-20 10:01:07 PM superm401

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Did the quadratic formula explode?

why settle for coolbuddy when you can have BonzaiBuddy! that crazy purple monkey, he could do all sorts of cool things

/like fark up my computer

You suppose advertisement will one day render video games as unplayable as they've made modern television unwatchable?

Web ads are up, because they are f*ing effective, you get better results with 5% of what you would spend in a newspaper, or other media

As a webmaster i am still waiting for the "adblock = no donut for you" application, and block all users that do not display ads

what is so great about not watching ads, anyway? is like a secret club for it? you get more chicks or what?

"what is so great about not watching ads, anyway? is like a secret club for it? you get more chicks or what?"

No, some people remember when the internet wasn't full of ads and just want the pure content without the flashy ads. Anyone ever serfed the internet through Telnet? no ads!

Hotortillas
As a webmaster i am still waiting for the "adblock = no donut for you" application, and block all users that do not display ads

I got news for ya, pal: if I need to allow popups to view your site, then I don't need to view your site.