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(canceled) fyi - We're trialing another ad network over the next week or two

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Hi All,

The current ad network has been pretty good, but I am still trialing other networks, mainly in hopes we'll get more relevant photography-related ads. The new one is mixed in with the current one and it may take 2 weeks for it to dial-in to our type of content.

The current network is serving mainly google based ads, a little icon in those ads will show this when you mouse over:



The newer network is valueimpression, their icon shows as this:



These will mainly be in the header and sidebar.

There should NEVER be any video, sound based, pop-ups, pop-unders, slide-out, or top-down expanding ads. If you see anything wacky and invasive like this please let me know.

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Sean
 

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Why not remove parts of the site that have noting to do with photography to improve ad relevancy? Like the often toxic and nearly always irrelevant lounge ?
 

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The Lounge already is off Google. Do you mean that ad networks scrawl the Lounge to adapt their ads to it?
 
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They generally show what you've been looking at online. I was browsing garden sheds so get stuff like this showing up after that. It's often quite helpful, even though I know it's tracking me.

 

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Witold said:
Why not remove parts of the site that have noting to do with photography to improve ad relevancy? Like the often toxic and nearly always irrelevant lounge ?
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... to improve SITE relevance.
 

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Aside of IT-related ads I have not seen photo-related ads by these ad-agents. The new agent just offered me an ad for sex toys....
 
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AgX said:
Aside of IT-related ads I have not seen photo-related ads by these ad-agents. The new agent just offered me an ad for sex toys....
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ugh. I'm working with them now to remove gambling/sex ads, stay tuned..
 

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I just got ads for Raid insect spray and Dunkin' Donuts.
 

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Sex toys again... Again part of a triple-ad with ads from 3 different vendors. The other two were a bookshop and and a software firm.
 

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Sex toys again.

The new agent seems even worse than Google-Ads.
 
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If you append this after the url it provides an id that can help me nuke them all: ?vi_debug=true

If we can't get it under control soon I'll scrap them. I haven't seen many new ones at all and nothing strange.
 
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i'll try a vpn to germany and see if I get any
 

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But more important, as said, is that the resting ads are not photo related either. The best relation still is Kapersky. This aplies for both Google and the new agent.
 
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AgX said:
But more important, as said, is that the resting ads are not photo related either. The best relation still is Kapersky. This aplies for both Google and the new agent.
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i think I'll bail on this network for now
 

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Again a gambling (or similar) ad:
https://track.adform.net/C/?bn=36796703;crtbwp=0.031501;crtbdata=N9ZI89eNHLC8C3sumawYYgxszx21hai730z-hPY9qAfsw4GOcsjM8FGdtNiBlAo4_VIFN2q7cT-E_JOlWxfzX8qpFeHb-JHU5F6M3AsYW9ljs3LzooiWllVIN1frhV0A0VBE4-e9UoTELCp47NuDPkEXFsPs53qwbvDlzMuuY9YsTqinJAe6TqfqKVSSTIWiyKMyEV9hKmi5hIcIctfRzEIFpUHXXNaML8wRzoW-LuSBCmZXAPdeuzBrkxHfYlJjX5KjROG2OFQ0twNf2LIIQ5dQ4B0-RXQOVzW5B8a4AnNdHJAdXbTXSUwt--008Se0KYn8hTqZDzKRV-QcE45NG_F9ixLl7Zx5EihjRMqFPCokqcVNdtXMgKKDkanYevwQuMuLaWqdqtq1PJQcpiWESl--iuwd82ZCfwUZMCMu6hUPVtpNcWx_YBOkcV5R6QI15RcDY7i-NZQq96Tku3sxXCnIYOh_XCKsLpL-y0qgRReh5lmUSmPdzVk3am6p9S3InkJLUAluwHbePUpIg0m6_cZBfHpD4NyJ5h_jGE3xh_hBZBqyY2gf3bhwUPfG5MhnHloycY9TPOTDeIjrSAcYFw2;adfibeg=0;cdata=5CdFnaBbu6CBWeanx-7_EwREp9dj3mg4Uv2IafofpYVxdNfTs_wyS842Qr1OEKnzjgjnJvTDPnA14N1j8Dbio-dQP451IB8EVEpUqbqprAFk9JUJFwE_MQ2;;CREFURL=https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
 
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OK, I have ditched this network. They somewhat mislead me on ad quality, so that's 2 days work down the drain. Oh well.. was worth a shot. With covid hitting revenue like 50% was looking for some better ad revenue. Luckily I am back to work full time day job last few months.
 

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Sorry, but I only can tell you my experiences over the last weeks without ad-blocking. If you wanted photo related ads, from my perspective, all 3rd party sourced ads were a failure.
Maybe members in other parts of the world got better ads.
 
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AgX said:
Sorry, but I only can tell you my experiences over the last weeks without ad-blocking. If you wanted photo related ads, from my perspective, all 3rd party sourced ads were a failure.
Maybe members in other parts of the world got better ads.
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Glad someone spoke up though.
 
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