Red Box Advertising Resurgence?

[UnknownAtThisTime]

I seem to be seeing an uptick in red box banner ads on the net (say in the last week). In addition, the wizards.com/dnd web site reverted back to a splash page (prompting me to go to walmart, target, or where trading cards are sold) for the red box when I visited it today.

Has anyone else seen this or is my browser cache merely suffering a red box disease?

 

[Dausuul]

I seem to be seeing an uptick in red box banner ads on the net (say in the last week). In addition, the wizards.com/dnd web site reverted back to a splash page (prompting me to go to walmart, target, or where trading cards are sold) for the red box when I visited it today.

Has anyone else seen this or is my browser cache merely suffering a red box disease?

Unless you've taken steps to block them, most likely what's happening is that banner advertisers have picked up on your interest in D&D and are serving up appropriate ads. I see this stuff all over the place now. Never used to see it at all, except on sites devoted to gaming.

Dunno about the Wizards site, though.

 

[Cyronax]

Unless you've taken steps to block them, most likely what's happening is that banner advertisers have picked up on your interest in D&D and are serving up appropriate ads. I see this stuff all over the place now. Never used to see it at all, except on sites devoted to gaming.

Dunno about the Wizards site, though.

/Threadcrap

Isn't it kind of scary that Dausuul's hypothesis is real option? (Edit: And by 'scary' I mean the technology for our every move online to be tracked).

/end threadcrap


What is the possibility that WotC has done a stealth marketing scheme? Haven't we been hearing that they're going to try to market the Red Box and Essentials more than they did for the initial release of 4e?

C.I.D.

 

[UnknownAtThisTime]

Dausuul, I understand banner ad targetting. I'd say my browsing habits have not changed.

My point was along what Cyro mentioned, have they silently upped their impressions in recent weeks? If so, it contradicts everything else we are seeing(inferring?) from WotC. If not, then my whole curiosity is a waste of time (PLAUSIBLE!)

 

[Cyronax]

Dausuul, I understand banner ad targetting. I'd say my browsing habits have not changed.

My point was along what Cyro mentioned, have they silently upped their impressions in recent weeks? If so, it contradicts everything else we are seeing(inferring?) from WotC. If not, then my whole curiosity is a waste of time (PLAUSIBLE!)

For WotC's sake, let's hope its a conscious scheme.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Well, if they supplement Evony, all is right in my world.

 

[MrMyth]

Well, if they supplement Evony, all is right in my world.

Are you sure you didn't mean 'supplant'?

 

[Dungeoneer]

Well, if they supplement Evony, all is right in my world.

I'm playing Evony... discretely.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

digression/ Yeah, banner ads. Note, Enworld is now listed in Firefox's list of badware sites. In other words some of the banner ads on this site are malicious (or it could be someone's sig, etc). REALLY, get something like Noscript and use it. Haven't seen any non-static banners in several years, stuff loads way faster too without all the flash crap I don't need to see popping up. Helps some with all the nice spying adware too, google-analytics, no thanks! /digression Nice to see that they're actively pushing Essentials.

 

[Dungeoneer]

I always keep some kind of flash blocker handy.