@akyho: I know what you mean, I tried it on Twitch but it would show an ad every 2 minutes, so back to AdBlock on. Advertisers really should learn to make simple classy ads.
well a simple classy ad wont stick in your mind and be assigned to a specific emotion. These ads that anger you stick in your mind better then some classy ad you will most likely forget in a few secs. The problem for ad developers is that we learned to fight back.
@akyho: I know what you mean, I tried it on Twitch but it would show an ad every 2 minutes, so back to AdBlock on. Advertisers really should learn to make simple classy ads.
well a simple classy ad wont stick in your mind and be assigned to a specific emotion. These ads that anger you stick in your mind better then some classy ad you will most likely forget in a few secs. The problem for ad developers is that we learned to fight back.
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I disagree.
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They are rare.
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But there are great ads out there.
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Really.
Ok, you have a point, but like you pointed out, its rare( and I will add harder) to consistently make cool interesting commercials. I have on occasion not skipped a commercial because it looked interesting, but that is a very very rare event.
O the promises they once made that it would never become this...
Yeah, and look how that turned out. The site got sold. Them bones ain't going to make themselves, holmes!
Anyway, there have always been ads on the site. At one point we even had sponsored quests. All that's changed is that the ads are now more consistent and there is less control over what they are. However, if they are reported as inappropriate, the staff can have them removed.
For a site to have complete control over the ads they show is both a rare and privileged position. The content on Giant Bomb isn't the bullshit sensationalist nonsense or click-traps that dictate the ridiculous traffic of IGN and Kotaku, so they don't have that luxury of being able to pick and choose. That's the price. All things considered, it could be a hell of a lot worse.
There haven't always been ads on the site. They were at one time taking a fairly careful approach to how they were going to do advertising as they communicated through the bombcast. It's long past that though and they happily sold out on all that long enough ago that it's not even a distant memory anymore around here.
And i'm not sure what you are reffering to with IGN and Kotaku, the ad shown above is far worse than anything i've seen on either of those sites in quite a while.
I'm not really bitching anyway, i'm not seeing the ads. Just nostalgic for a time where people seemed to care and take some pride in the site.
@rowr: If they didn't "sell out", the site wouldn't exist. Whiskey Media is gone for a reason. They weren't making money. They didn't get bought by CBSi because they felt like it. I'm not going to defend the ad but they don't have any input when it comes to this stuff anymore. That sucks but there aren't very many options.
I whitelist the site on adblock and some do not get ads for some reason, other than sponsored links which always gives weird articles. When i do get ads its just a banner ad and a square ad on the side, nothing that gets on the way.
Worst I ever saw when using the iPad (I think, something without adblock) was an ad for some shitty facebook game with a big titted pirate chick with writing saying "Only Men Allowed" or something, which I found totally fucking hilarious.
I like how Patrick post all these feminist articles then ads like that pop up.
Yeah, Patrick's such a hypocrite. Designing that ad himself and selling it to CBSi just so it could show up on his own website. The Nerve!
He's referring to the irony of the situation. That he posts those articles and they can appear right next to an advertisement with a woman's (nice) bum. It's cheeky and it's funny.
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