This Headline Is Not for Sale 275
r.jimenezz writes "Adam Penenberg's latest article on Wired News discusses the growing trend of inserting ads more directly into online content, as publishers strive to keep readers clicking and to stretch advertising dollars, most of which go to a few big companies. He mentions the example of Vibrant Media, which links 'certain words in an article' directly to ads, and has been covered before on Slashdot, as have Penenberg's previous
articles."
This Post Brought To You By Toyota (Score:5, Funny)
What's the problem with ads being interspersed anyway? I'm sure most of us are used to reading an article and then skipping down
a few lines to get back to the content.
Well, I guess it get's really really
annoying sometimes.
This Headline is Not For Sale (Score:5, Funny)
This Headline is Not For Sale
How amusing... I just subsribed, and this is the first headline I paid to see before anyone else...
In addition, with all the astrotufing at Slashdot lately, I don't think it has to be for sale, because we're eager to see see it for free...
Re:How to block them ... (Score:1, Funny)
My content is getting claustrophobic (Score:3, Funny)
Marketers can have the sides, top and bottom of a page to peddle products and services, but the body must remain pure.
You can have your body...
AD AD AD AD AD
AD AD AD AD AD
AD ONE LINE AD
AD AD AD AD AD
AD AD AD AD AD
Click for next page
Hmmm, that *does* look familiar.
Uh-oh... (Score:4, Funny)
Look out Slashdot, here we come!
I hope it fails (Score:4, Funny)
No thanks (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No thanks (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Intellitext pitched OSDN (now known as OSTG) (Score:1, Funny)
I am only 5'2".
Selected quote (Score:1, Funny)
And you thought money grew on trees? You idiot! Money grows in news websites!
It's always fun when people come in and explain they have found a new way to generate money out of nothing. Fun or sad, depends on your local mood I suppose.
BTW, I have been quoting a quote (from Vibrant) in the article, not the article itself, which is really interesting and well-written.
Re:How to block them ... (Score:2, Funny)
And here I was paying my internet bill every month like a sucker!
Re:My content is getting claustrophobic (Score:2, Funny)
Here's the future of advertising, inside our FPS games there will be billboards which have a simple web browser built in.
So when the game calls home and reports that it's been pirated, it redirects all of the billboards to goatse? Oh, the humanity!