What is Digg?32 Comments
- KnightMareInc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10just means the crash will hurt alot more
- MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6All of you: Get Out While You Have The Chance. The Bubble WILL Burst!
- f4nt0m4s, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6But what will happen when everyone is happy with the size of their penis?
- DariusMonsef, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8I'm glad to see more money going towards Online Advertising and I hope "more money" translates into "more value"... and better quality. The online advertising industry is about as shady as it gets:
http://www.younggogetter.com/2007/04/15/the-devil-online-advertising/ - fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4The thing I love most about people preaching about AdBlock is they're mostly endangering Google's relationship with Mozilla, which directly and pretty much single-handedly funds development of Firefox. Eventually Google'll just pull out and Firefox'll be ***** and reduced to a 2-man spare-time project on sourceforge.
If you don't like advertising, boo hoo. Most of the world doesn't seem to mind and it funds virtually the entire internet and a lot of free software. By being selfish, short-sighted idiots all you do is jeopardise a tonne of stuff being given to you for free. Hopefully it'll be your browser that loses before the rest of the internet and it's users does. - DruSam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Funny how so many adblock fascist diggers will enjoy a site like Digg and not acknowledge that Digg depends on advertising to survive.
- shiftt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@kevin45 ..do you think great content is created due to people's benevolence?
I love how people so actively promote AdBlock all the while complaining their favorite websites don't load fast enough or don't have enough content. How do you expect them to grow if they can't cover their costs? Do you expect sites like Digg to be around if all the users turn on AdBlock? - sonochamp, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@kevin45
I think most people feel this way too. So the question is.... how is revenue going up? I find it hard to believe people actually click on some of these links. - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6So people will provide you with web sites at loss because...??
- wcolbert, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The internet advertising bubble will burst? lol. Don't hold your breathe. Advertising is one of those things that never goes out of style. The mediums just change adn the internet is the premiere meeting right now and that should stay the same for a while at least.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7I prefer to not see any ads at all.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35 billion is pretty measly but at least it's headed upward.
- ArtVandelay, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Google's piece of the pie: O Everyone elses:
- VSLOATHE, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2um....adwords is run directly by Google. Are you saying they are scammers? I wouldn't go that far. ***** whose business model relies on spam (they keep Matt Cutts out there to save face, but he's a tool) maybe, but not scammers.
- SomaSynth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3"Do you expect sites like Digg to be around if all the users turn on AdBlock?"
I think the cost and difficulty to operate sites like Digg will drop proportionally with the increasing number of Adblock users, in part due to reduced CPU time and bandwidth costs, and evolving CMS. By the time adblock is so pervasive as to seriously disrupt the revenue stream, every grandma, grandpa and their cat will have a social website. Not for the expectation of revenue but for the simple pleasure of having your own social website. So yes I would expect sites like Digg to be around regardless of how influential Adblock becomes, things don't stay as they seem for very long on the internet. - OpenFuture, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That will never happen
- bbrgreen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Agreed, internet advertising still only accounts for under 6% of the entire US advertising spend.
- sodade, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3The answer is that ads need to be directed at me and my interests. The only ads I have ever clicked on are on www.mtbr.com (mountain bike review) - this site's narrow focus makes it so that most of the ads are targeted. The other point is that ads must stop being so ***** annoying.
- ubuwalker31, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@shiftt (#7066583) said: "@kevin45 ..do you think great content is created due to people's benevolence?
I love how people so actively promote AdBlock all the while complaining their favorite websites don't load fast enough or don't have enough content....
Using AdBlock to surf the web is like listening to NPR to get your news. Very few commercials get through and you're expected to contribute if you listen, although very few do. However, the public funding and overall quality are better than 99% of the other sources out there.
But, the fact remains that Firefox and Adblock are not used by most people on the internet, and people do in fact click on links....including myself, while using adblock. So...there ya go. - Authustian, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Just use Adblock (Firefox plugin)
/Obligatory - Suchmann, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@ chaesar
it's called Joost. - shariqueniazi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Internet advertising is really catching up the world over even in my country India.
http://www.bollywoodone.blogspot.com - TheSeraph, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1sonochamp - you'd be surprised. it's a lucrative business with minimum overhead. and as we all know, a sucker (people that actually click on the links/ads) is born every minute.
- stereolightning, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0bad website
- saprian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Funny, I wouldn't have expected such an increase. Click-rates in Europe are on the decline.
See for example http://www.adtech.de/de/pr-07-8.html reporting 0.18% - does not look good for PPC.
I wonder what they will do to adapt to that... - resta6, on 01/12/2009, -1/+1The bubble will burst when the small people who buy advertising(adwords), realize that most of their money goes to scammers, and the traffic they are getting is people who clicked the link by mistake. Then google will slowly enter decline, and w/o google advertising a very large portion of websites will be screwed. But this will mainly affect the smaller sites, the big sites will have enough traffic to run their own advertising programs
- VSLOATHE, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1P.S. no serious players rely on Adsense anymore. That ship has sailed. Google's "Smart Pricing" really kills MFA sites.
- AHoyt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0actually, since we are talking about internet advertising, i found this really great site www.mewantiphone.com
and it has blogs and advertising thats cheap for buisnesses
www.mewantiphone.com
you guys should check it out, i actually found it quite use full compared to the rest!!! - VSLOATHE, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2You can thank spammers.
Hell they probably didn't even count the revenue of a number of people I know. It would add onto that a hefty bit. If I pull in 20k a month on affiliate ads it's a slowass month and there are people who make me look like a complete ameteur. - chaesar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2I am just waiting for technology to create a seamless, Internet/TV hybrid environment
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