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There is no silver bullet (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
OP
FYI, as a starless person I am looking at the toon and an ad for body armor!
HereSince1628
Jan 2013
#1
Ad servers on the internet are robots. Merchants subscribe, specify certain criteria & pay.
patrice
Jan 2013
#2
Yes I know...it's the irony of the conjunction..starless but here for >10 years
HereSince1628
Jan 2013
#3
Yeah, it shocked me the first time I saw something like that. Somebody mentioned it here the
patrice
Jan 2013
#4
Interesting idea, I thought there were just brazillions of them in the cloud.
HereSince1628
Jan 2013
#5
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)1. FYI, as a starless person I am looking at the toon and an ad for body armor!
Seriously.
patrice
(47,992 posts)2. Ad servers on the internet are robots. Merchants subscribe, specify certain criteria & pay.
I'm pretty sure that exclusions are pretty limited and pricey, so websites such as this probably don't see who's buying this screen real estate, until the stuff runs here.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)3. Yes I know...it's the irony of the conjunction..starless but here for >10 years
patrice
(47,992 posts)4. Yeah, it shocked me the first time I saw something like that. Somebody mentioned it here the
other day too.
I bet those ad brokers can get premium fees during certain types of news-cycles, so they probably market the hell out of that stuff.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)5. Interesting idea, I thought there were just brazillions of them in the cloud.