Title: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:11:52 Please read the whole of this post and then please feel free to give your opinions. :)
Just to let everyone know, i will have advertising throughout the forum by the end of this week. I've always been a touch reluctant to do anything to piss anyone off, while balancing this with the longterm goal of making the forum self-sufficient. This causes a slight problem because advertising pays bills, and nobody likes advertising. Anyway, without rambling on too much, if you're logged in and have more than 50 posts (this seems a reasonable number no?), adverts will be non-existent. They'll only be displayed to guests, people not logged in and users with 50 posts or less. I haven't firmly decided on the 50 post cut off, but it's extremely unlikely to be higher, if anything it will be lower. Opinions welcomed. Please! Thanks :D Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Bogus Dave on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:16:25 cant complain. will this advertising be enough to fully fund the site?
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: sonic youth on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:16:35 capitalist pigdog
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:19:26 Dunno Dave, it's experimental, but i hope so. We're just going to have to see how everything pans out. Nothing is going to change for the regulars, because all ads will be hidden.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:20:25 capitalist pigdog I was expecting that! :D Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:24:23 I just logged in as future news monkey and didn't see any.
Oh wait. I've got adblock on. Is it that good? Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:29:46 Not present yet. Before the week is out it will be. I'm Just getting some decent tracking uploaded and getting some geek to solve a small problem implementing the ads.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:30:54 oops I missed that bit. Fair plays.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: pauld on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 00:01:55 Seems fair enough to me. But as an alternative have you not thought of perhaps instead of paying the hosting/bandwidth bills as they come in, bundling them up as one big bill, throw in a few TEFers mortgages, then package them up as a structured collateralised debt product and get the government to take the whole lot on instead? Then pay yourself a massive fuck off bonus and retire "in disgrace" to a life of whores and cocktails in the Bahamas.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Batch on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 07:08:08 Completely fair, you make the cutoff 5000 for all I care.
So how does revenue generation work for this. Is it simple referral schemes or is there some other way? Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Nemo on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 07:12:24 I dunno, I'd quite like to see keyword advertising just to see what in merry hell that would throw up on here:
"Buy or sell STFC Bart at Ebay.co.uk" Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: A Gent Orange on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 08:14:39 Fifty posts you say? (Checks the little number on the left). Yeah carry on.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 08:40:22 So how does revenue generation work for this. Is it simple referral schemes or is there some other way? It'll all be Cost-Per-Action. They'll essentially be free offers and various other little benefits, that when signed up for, by a user, payment is made depending on the action taken. So it is a kind of referral scheme yes. :D Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 09:29:57 How much will advertising be
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: janaage on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 11:49:00 I think you should maybe raise the post count a bit, make it 500 or so, 50 sounds very low.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: A Gent Orange on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 13:28:38 I think you should maybe raise the post count a bit, make it 500 or so, 50 sounds very low. But then people will post just for the sake of getting their numbers up*. Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: A Gent Orange on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 13:29:18 *Like me
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Fred Elliot on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 13:34:03 But then people will post just for the sake of getting their numbers up*. Ive been doing that for the last 3 years Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 14:36:14 How much will advertising be I'm not sure what you mean? How much will it cost me? I'll get it all free, then earn a few $$ here and there from relevant submissions post click. I think you should maybe raise the post count a bit, make it 500 or so, 50 sounds very low. I just don't wanna fuck people off jan. At the same time, the higher the post count, the more views the ads get everyday. Maybe i'll have a think about it all, and put it to some sort of sexy forum group vote thing. Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 14:36:50 But how much would it cost me to Advertise on your forum
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 14:50:44 I'd have to start the advertising first, see what the revenue is like, then work it out. It'd also be tough to price until i get some accurate stats through and have account management running for any individual advertisers. Also, all ads will randomly rotate, so one ad could get 5 impressions a day and another could get 5000, although unlikely,this is possible.
Let me get it all running and i'll stick something in this thread. :) Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: LucienSanchez on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 15:01:45 From a selfish point of view, I'd say anyone with less posts than me.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Simon Pieman on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 21:43:01 23000
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: yeo on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 21:51:28 Barry would you like us to log out and click on the adverts every so often or doesnt that make any difference?
Oh and 50s fine Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: axs on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 22:43:37 8000.
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: Barry Scott on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 00:21:53 Cheers for the offer yeovil, but it'll not do anything. Logging out and just browsing wouldn't be a bad shout, because they just need eyeballs in all honesty. :)
Title: Re: Advertising will soon be present for some users Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11:32:42 hmm
EDIT. 2500 should do it. |