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February 1st, 2005 at 5:37 am
I agree about the questionable ethics of encouraging readers to click advertising links for products that they don’t have any interest in. That’s just being greedy.
As for no-charge Web content: there will always be people like me who don’t see the need to turn everything into a money-making operation. My own website exists for the purpose of giving me a personal soapbox. It is enough that I subject my readers to my viewpoints; I would never demean my readers by also subjecting them to advertising.
February 1st, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Doug,
Sure, there will always be sites to subject readers to their viewpoint or to propagate their viewpoints. However I think they will cease over time to dominate the web contents as it is today. How long do you think Newspapers like NYT will post contents for free? Soon they will provide teasers only and request you to subscribe to get the full contents. In fact many do it even today. Now instead of purchasing NYT, Washington Post and tons of other newspaper subscriptions, wouldn’t you prefer to buy a single subscription and get seamless access to all these news sites?
Not everything should be or will be a money making operation. There are always projects of love and passion.
My thoughts here are on a macro scale of things.
What are your thoughts on the macro scale of things?
February 6th, 2005 at 8:45 am
Having worked for sites that relied heavily on advertising dollars to keep running, I know that in the past it has been really difficult to get advertisers to buy into web advertising in the past.
However, there has been a shift lately where companies are moving away from traditional media, TV and Radio and putting their money into interactive ads on some of the larger websites out there. I think you’ll see more of this in the future, but it has to be for interactive ads where the user can directly be involved in the experience.
March 14th, 2005 at 5:58 am
Interactive or not I think by and large the free web model has to end. It may still exist for niches like people posting content for love like Doug or some sites sustaining on interactive and relevant ads as Steven mentions. However this cannot work for the masses. The market is much too small to sustain the current industry.
March 14th, 2005 at 6:35 am
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