Advertising Banners on Neopets

[kiay]

I haven't gotten even one Advertising Banner and I've been testing out the new toolbar since it came out. (Or is it on the smaller one? Because I didn't see anything other than neo on those too) Maybe its because I'm too young for them or something. (I'm 14 btw)

[OmniIcyshelf]

Err, nice to meet you, Johnny- Err, Jenny? Err, well, why is your name- Gah.

[cmulgrew]

I think the banner ads suck! I am glad I installed the AdBlock extentsion in Firefox today.

[OmniIcyshelf]

I have AdSubtract, but filtering's not working right now, so I'm "treated" to this.

[rageaholic]

They don't bother me. The site is free for me to play, there are no things popping up in my face, I barely notice the banners anyway. Meh... I can see how this could bother people, but, personally, I don't see it as a reason to get so worked up. The small ads had off site links too.

[borovan90834]

Its currently 3% of all banners. That may increase but yeah, we dont have much choice.

Look on the bright side, it means more artists and programmers for us, the company can expand and we can do lots more cool stuff

Id just ignore them (or get some sort of ad blocker:P)

[Johnnydontgo]

They don't bother me. The site is free for me to play, there are no things popping up in my face, I barely notice the banners anyway. Meh... I can see how this could bother people, but, personally, I don't see it as a reason to get so worked up. The small ads had off site links too.

True enough. They're a little more "eye-catching" than the small ones were, and take longer to load (I would imagine) for dial-up users... but again, a small price to pay for a free, sans pop-up site.

[fifthmonkee]

The banner ads bother me because they represent bad news on the business end of Neopets. Neopets, as a business concepts, is a web page offering imbedded advertising. If they can't make enough money from imbedded advertising and licensing fees, then the entire concept is flawed, and Neopets has no real reason to exist.

Or, more precisely, investors and advertisers will see no real reason for the site to exist. The experiment has failed, Neopets won't endure, and eventually, in 5, 10, or 20 years, my tiny virtual pets will cease to exist, and that idea makes me sad Very sad

[Johnnydontgo]

The banner ads bother me because they represent bad news on the business end of Neopets. Neopets, as a business concepts, is a web page offering imbedded advertising. If they can't make enough money from imbedded advertising and licensing fees, then the entire concept is flawed, and Neopets has no real reason to exist.

Or, more precisely, investors and advertisers will see no real reason for the site to exist. The experiment has failed, Neopets won't endure, and eventually, in 5, 10, or 20 years, my tiny virtual pets will cease to exist, and that idea makes me sad Very sad

I don't see how that makes sense. Neopets earns the majority of their income from, like you said, embedded advertising and marketing real-life merchandise. It seems to be working quite well for them. And, as Adam said above, we're talking 3% of all banners (for now), and the number will probably grow. Alot of large companies (i.e. General Mills, whatever movie companies are advertising their movies) are jumping at the chance to be a part of it. I don't see this as the "downfall" of the company per se, but perhaps the "depersonalization" of it.

[borovan90834]

The banner ads bother me because they represent bad news on the business end of Neopets. Neopets, as a business concepts, is a web page offering imbedded advertising. If they can't make enough money from imbedded advertising and licensing fees, then the entire concept is flawed, and Neopets has no real reason to exist.

Or, more precisely, investors and advertisers will see no real reason for the site to exist. The experiment has failed, Neopets won't endure, and eventually, in 5, 10, or 20 years, my tiny virtual pets will cease to exist, and that idea makes me sad Very sad

I don't see how that makes sense. Neopets earns the majority of their income from, like you said, embedded advertising and marketing real-life merchandise. It seems to be working quite well for them. And, as Adam said above, we're talking 3% of all banners (for now), and the number will probably grow. Alot of large companies (i.e. General Mills, whatever movie companies are advertising their movies) are jumping at the chance to be a part of it. I don't see this as the "downfall" of the company per se, but perhaps the "depersonalization" of it.

Yes, its not like we want to do this, but we dont really have much choice. If it doesnt work out then we will certainly revert to the old style of yellow bar... I'll keep you posted

Its only a banner, it could be a lot worse We'll never do popups or anything like that...

Anyway, you get a Neopets ad 97% of the time, and we will be making more of them so you dont see the same 13 ads over and over again.

[Ledi]

Adam, could we have a choice of static neopets ads though? Those moving ones are really giving me a headache...

If you can't, could you give me a reason why not?

[gabriellaeve]

Uh...



Yes, feminine deodorant has already been shown on the side ad box before.

That makes me laugh and cry.

there's even a game about it. *goes off to check it out*

Here is the game center for it http://www.neopets.com/games/secretsparkle.phtml lol.

Well- I was all set to mock the game, but I got a kacheek meatball from going to the game center (yay RE) so...its kind of hard to think of anything mean to say

[Luna]

I took an idea from someone else here and changed my location to Antarctica. I've only seen Neopets ads since.

[br00ster]

Hello Adam. Nice to see 'ya. Great work on the site by the way.
Back to topic, Atleast they arnt like nick.com. Every time you click "back" on nick.com you get a new pop up. I'm serious. Its awful.

[Kitten Medli]

I agree with you, Br00ster.

Look, you all made Adam sad. Poor baby.

....

You did!!!!

No, Kidding..