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FaRmLaNd on 17 March 2010
Games4Fun said:
at the moment I have my turned off for this site and this site only. I will not be clicking on any of them though. I thought it was just letting them display is how he got his munnies?

I can't speak for how ioi and his advertising partners generate revenue, but generally people need to click on the ads to generate revenue.



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starcraft on 17 March 2010

This thread isn't nearly as popular as the one complaining about bad ads



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CommonMan on 17 March 2010

I have clicked on the t-shirt ads a lot, because I miss my scroll bar on the side of the screen and up pops Gamer Print!

OT: Good Job on the ads, ioi!



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Kantor on 17 March 2010

I still get "Mobile Phone Contract" and "Don't drink underage", and occasionally "GamerPrint".

Not bad, but not overly exciting.



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Final-Fan on 17 March 2010
FaRmLaNd said:
Games4Fun said:
at the moment I have my turned off for this site and this site only. I will not be clicking on any of them though. I thought it was just letting them display is how he got his munnies?

I can't speak for how ioi and his advertising partners generate revenue, but generally people need to click on the ads to generate revenue.

In the thread ioi made, I believe he said that clicking makes no difference, the ad loading so that you can see it is the important thing. 



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luvtospooge on 17 March 2010
heruamon said:
Adds..what ads...lol...jk. People are funny, they bitch and complian about ANY sort of fees for premium service, ala BoxOfficeMojo, but bitch about ads as well...just proving my point that ALOT of people on this site have seriously unrealistic outlooks on how the world works.

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thekitchensink on 17 March 2010
Final-Fan said:
FaRmLaNd said:
Games4Fun said:
at the moment I have my turned off for this site and this site only. I will not be clicking on any of them though. I thought it was just letting them display is how he got his munnies?

I can't speak for how ioi and his advertising partners generate revenue, but generally people need to click on the ads to generate revenue.

In the thread ioi made, I believe he said that clicking makes no difference, the ad loading so that you can see it is the important thing. 

It's not that clicking makes no difference--it makes quite a big one.  What he was referring to was that the site gets paid both for every view and for every click.  People were saying 'hey, I don't click them anyway, so it affects nothing', and he was showing how it still affects the site.

 

OT: All the ones I see are gaming-related, such as GamerPrint and Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition.



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heruamon on 18 March 2010
luvtospooge said:
heruamon said:
Adds..what ads...lol...jk. People are funny, they bitch and complian about ANY sort of fees for premium service, ala BoxOfficeMojo, but bitch about ads as well...just proving my point that ALOT of people on this site have seriously unrealistic outlooks on how the world works.

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Rainbird on 18 March 2010

I agree, and I would like to say that my ads have been good for a while. Good job ioi



Porcupine_I on 18 March 2010
heruamon said:
Adds..what ads...lol...jk. People are funny, they bitch and complian about ANY sort of fees for premium service, ala BoxOfficeMojo, but bitch about ads as well...just proving my point that ALOT of people on this site have seriously unrealistic outlooks on how the world works.

what unrealistic outlook?

 

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