Advertising Options

Tiefling · 21st May 2003, 02:35 AM

Is it possible to purchase advertising that appears exlcusively on the messageboard, not the main page?

**Morrus** · 22nd May 2003, 03:48 PM

Sorry, no. It's a very simple system and doesn't allow for specific locations for different ads.

Tiefling · 22nd May 2003, 04:21 PM

Darn. Thanks anyway.

Wulf Ratbane · 22nd May 2003, 04:24 PM

It's a shame, too.

I'd happily pay to advertise solely in Piratecat or Sepulchrave's Story Hour thread!

Wulf

**Morrus** · 22nd May 2003, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wulf Ratbane
It's a shame, too.

I'd happily pay to advertise solely in Piratecat or Sepulchrave's Story Hour thread!

Wulf

Heh... you could always pay PC to put it in his sig!

Tiefling · 22nd May 2003, 04:46 PM

I'm curious, do you know how the advert program selects which banner to send out each time a page is loaded? It doesn't seem to be just random, because I consistently get a given banner several times in a row.

Edit: Okay, maybe it is just random, now that I actually sit down and reload the page over and over. But I could have sworn getting Badaxe Games banner and the Chronicles of Anyaka banner three or four times in a row each. Maybe it was just luck. Or a hallucination.

Samothdm · 24th May 2003, 01:36 AM

That's most likely because Badaxe and Chronicles have paid for more impressions. So, their particular ads are getting served up far more often than some of the other advertisers. I see Badaxe's all the time on here, but for awhile it seems like all I saw were Bastion Press' "Oathbound".

It's kind of like TV advertising - if Coke buys three times as many ads in a given week than Pepsi, you're much more likely to see a Coke ad when you turn on the TV. [In a very general sense, of course - targeting and program selection will be factors as well but that's boring media planning stuff].