LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business.
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Here's another example of a good ad.
It says "Game Boy programming, hacking, and research" and there's a picture of a Game Boy. The text is nice bright green on a dark green background, it's colourful and fun to look at. If someone is interested in Game Boy programming, hacking and research, then they might well click this ad and get what the ad promises, which is why this is a good ad by @issotm.
This ad by @TopazRabbit has furry characters on it and says "The Industrious Rabbit: Animated tech-inspired explainer videos," and it's even got the URL in the ad in case you don't wanna click on it right now or in case someone copies and pastes the ad image somewhere without setting up the link.
This is a good ad. Like the last couple, it has Pictures And Text and it's Colourful, and the characters look like they're having a good time and want you to join in.
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This ad by @TopazRabbit has furry characters on it and says "The Industrious Rabbit: Animated tech-inspired explainer videos," and it's even got the URL in the ad in case you don't wanna click on it right now or in case someone copies and pastes the ad image somewhere without setting up the link.
This is a good ad. Like the last couple, it has Pictures And Text and it's Colourful, and the characters look like they're having a good time and want you to join in.
You know those ads for games that don't exist? Like, Evony, that's a game that's been around for decades, it's a basic city-building doofer but it doesn't look good in ads so they advertise a completely unrelated game that doesn't exist?
That's because the Evony company is many people and most of them get paid the same amount of money whether the game does well or not, so Some Guy looks at the number of Clicks and Some Other Guy looks at the number of Moneys instead of anybody looking at the number of Is This Actually A Good Ad, because that's hard to Number.
Give me ads for your hobby or small (very small) business website that have Pictures and Text and are Colourful and Say Exactly What The Viewer Will Get When They Click and I will put them on my website and charge you zero dollars and that's the end of the transaction and there will be no Some Guys or Numbers involved
In case you think I'm being nice, I'm doing this out of maybe 10% altruism, the rest is like 50% old-web nostalgia and 40% PURE SPITE
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You know those ads for games that don't exist? Like, Evony, that's a game that's been around for decades, it's a basic city-building doofer but it doesn't look good in ads so they advertise a completely unrelated game that doesn't exist?
That's because the Evony company is many people and most of them get paid the same amount of money whether the game does well or not, so Some Guy looks at the number of Clicks and Some Other Guy looks at the number of Moneys instead of anybody looking at the number of Is This Actually A Good Ad, because that's hard to Number.
Give me ads for your hobby or small (very small) business website that have Pictures and Text and are Colourful and Say Exactly What The Viewer Will Get When They Click and I will put them on my website and charge you zero dollars and that's the end of the transaction and there will be no Some Guys or Numbers involved
In case you think I'm being nice, I'm doing this out of maybe 10% altruism, the rest is like 50% old-web nostalgia and 40% PURE SPITE
Firing up a new browser that doesn't have an adblocker installed yet, thinking "Ugh, I hate ads," and then remembering no, ads are great, I love ads, what I hate is LIES. I hate CRAP THAT GETS IN THE WAY. I hate being spied on. I hate interruptions. I hate seeing reminders about Products I Purchased Last Week.
Ads? Actual proper ads that say yo here's a thing that a person worked on and cared about and wants you to see? They're that proud of it, they're that invested in it, they want it to be Out There In The World so much that they went to the trouble to make an ad for it, just in case it's the sort of thing I might like? Show that ad for their weird niche hobby blog or webcomic to thousands of people completely at random on the off-chance that one of them will clutch it to their heart and say "Yes, yes, this! THIS is what I didn't know I wanted and no algorithm could have predicted I wanted!"
Fuck yeah, show me your ad.
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Firing up a new browser that doesn't have an adblocker installed yet, thinking "Ugh, I hate ads," and then remembering no, ads are great, I love ads, what I hate is LIES. I hate CRAP THAT GETS IN THE WAY. I hate being spied on. I hate interruptions. I hate seeing reminders about Products I Purchased Last Week.
Ads? Actual proper ads that say yo here's a thing that a person worked on and cared about and wants you to see? They're that proud of it, they're that invested in it, they want it to be Out There In The World so much that they went to the trouble to make an ad for it, just in case it's the sort of thing I might like? Show that ad for their weird niche hobby blog or webcomic to thousands of people completely at random on the off-chance that one of them will clutch it to their heart and say "Yes, yes, this! THIS is what I didn't know I wanted and no algorithm could have predicted I wanted!"
Fuck yeah, show me your ad.
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If you're reading this thread and thinking
ohhhh, my Thing isn't Important enough to run ADS for, it's just a silly little hobby,🦝
🦝 you, specifically, are who I am talking to
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🦝 YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME YOUR AD
🦝 YES YOU CAN SEE WHITE AROUND EVERY PART OF MY IRIS, FORGET ABOUT THAT
🦝 YOU HAVE TO MAKE A 468x60 PIXEL BANNER AD IN JPG OR PNG FORMAT AND GIVE IT TO ME
jesus oh jesus why🦝 SO THAT WE CAN BRING
🦝 THE INTERNET
🦝 BACK
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🦝 CAN YOU SMELL HOW SINCERE I AM ABOUT THIS
yes yes i can smell everything please put me downI've been running these ads on my website for a couple of years and not one single person has ever complained about them, my players love them, they talk about them, they like seeing cool indie websites and comics and blogs and furry characters and weird old videogame stuff, they say "I never click ads BUT" about these ads, your website is definitely good enough to be in the stack
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I've been running these ads on my website for a couple of years and not one single person has ever complained about them, my players love them, they talk about them, they like seeing cool indie websites and comics and blogs and furry characters and weird old videogame stuff, they say "I never click ads BUT" about these ads, your website is definitely good enough to be in the stack
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People are so used to every single ad they see being annoying and shit that when they see an ad that's actually good, they go HOLY SHIT WHAT'S THAT
Know what else? I serve my ads at the BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. So that people see them when they've already read the page and they're ready to go do something else.
(it's on the special New Day page and nowhere else, players see it maybe a couple times a day, it's a kinda transitional page when stamina and resources get refilled and it's either the first thing players see in a session or it's a reminder that they've been playing a while and they might wanna do something else, transitional pages like these are the IDEAL places for ads and links and webrings, if you're a webcomic think in between chapters or when the reader's caught up, if you're a blog think between the article and the comments)
Ads that pop up and COVER WHAT YOU'RE READING aren't actually ads, they're scams, nobody clicks on them except by accident while trying to find the fuck-off button, their entire purpose is to take money outta the pocket of the sucker who's trying to sell something and put it in the pocket of the advertising company and give a tiny tiny slice to the spam site running the popup, it's not an ad because it can't advertise anything effectively, it can't advertise anything effectively because it's not in an advert-conducive context, you need to catch people at the moment when they're Done and are looking for Something Else, and to put an ad in the middle of your Thing is to say "My Thing is so shit that people can get distracted away from it by an ad and you know what, I'm happy to let that happen," put the ad at the bottom of the page ffs aaaaaarghhhh
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Know what else? I serve my ads at the BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. So that people see them when they've already read the page and they're ready to go do something else.
(it's on the special New Day page and nowhere else, players see it maybe a couple times a day, it's a kinda transitional page when stamina and resources get refilled and it's either the first thing players see in a session or it's a reminder that they've been playing a while and they might wanna do something else, transitional pages like these are the IDEAL places for ads and links and webrings, if you're a webcomic think in between chapters or when the reader's caught up, if you're a blog think between the article and the comments)
Ads that pop up and COVER WHAT YOU'RE READING aren't actually ads, they're scams, nobody clicks on them except by accident while trying to find the fuck-off button, their entire purpose is to take money outta the pocket of the sucker who's trying to sell something and put it in the pocket of the advertising company and give a tiny tiny slice to the spam site running the popup, it's not an ad because it can't advertise anything effectively, it can't advertise anything effectively because it's not in an advert-conducive context, you need to catch people at the moment when they're Done and are looking for Something Else, and to put an ad in the middle of your Thing is to say "My Thing is so shit that people can get distracted away from it by an ad and you know what, I'm happy to let that happen," put the ad at the bottom of the page ffs aaaaaarghhhh
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this is why people click on my fucking ads, I put them in the right place on the webpage and people actually like them and everybody else does it wrooooooong
I know google says put them at the top or the middle or whatever but google ads are shit and everybody hates them and they don't know what they're talking about, they're a multi-billion-dollar corporation and they've destroyed web advertising, listen to the pinball machine repairman instead
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I know google says put them at the top or the middle or whatever but google ads are shit and everybody hates them and they don't know what they're talking about, they're a multi-billion-dollar corporation and they've destroyed web advertising, listen to the pinball machine repairman instead
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Look who are you gonna trust about adverts, an advertising corporation whose stranglehold over the space is so complete that they can topple democracies, or 🦝 me
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anyway night night fedi, please make it so that when I wake up I've got ten more furry webcomics or retrocomputing blogs in my cool-ads-to-approve hole, thx
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Up to a hundred and one now, thankyouthankyouthankyou, if you want to see a riot of colour from When The Internet Was Fun then you can see all the ads in one long list at https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php?op=showall and most of those websites are from the fun side of Fedi, if you have a website then you gotta add yours in
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Up to a hundred and one now, thankyouthankyouthankyou, if you want to see a riot of colour from When The Internet Was Fun then you can see all the ads in one long list at https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php?op=showall and most of those websites are from the fun side of Fedi, if you have a website then you gotta add yours in
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🦝 Giving away free ad space to 109 cool fedi-people websites now, yours could be number 110 and you don't even have to link back, it's free because fuck google, check start of thread for deets 🦝
@ifixcoinops@retro.social i need to know what Spacehuhn is...
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social i need to know what Spacehuhn is...
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for your hobby website or small (small!) business.
fully agree with what you are doing.
