{"id":338,"date":"2008-04-21T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-04-21T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:34:37","slug":"ad-on-gamedevnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/21\/ad-on-gamedevnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad on gamedev.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI paid for a &#8216;featured spotlight&#8217; ad on <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gamedev.net\">Gamedev.net<\/a>.  So far I haven&#8217;t gotten any apparent boost in traffic. Two people that I know of in the industry have ad-blockers so didn&#8217;t even see the ad. I wouldn&#8217;t say that adblockers are stealing, but it&#8217;s true that pretty much nobody wants to see ads. Taken to its logical conclusion pure advertisement paid content would not be a viable business model. Those sites would have to massively downgrade content, require subscription fees, rely on free user submissions, put ads in a more obtrusive context, and\/or a combination of these measures. None of these are good solutions, and I don&#8217;t know what a good solution would otherwise be.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that in the best case scenario I stand to make $50,000 from a site-license to a publisher, $500 is a pittance. But that&#8217;s only worthwhile if the link that gets me that sale is the ad itself, as opposed to other measures such as a new post.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I paid for a &#8216;featured spotlight&#8217; ad on Gamedev.net. So far I haven&#8217;t gotten any apparent boost in traffic. Two people that I know of in the industry have ad-blockers so didn&#8217;t even see the ad. I wouldn&#8217;t say that adblockers are stealing, but it&#8217;s true that pretty much nobody wants to see ads. Taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}