New Ad Format Brings Skype Surprises
The pursuit of advertising revenue may have unintended consequences. In knocking around the Skype Journal site I enabled 300X200 Google Ads. I'll know very quickly whether their location pays dividends. Still the new format enables image advertising which had unexpected consequences. A reader sent this picture to me this morning.
Now SkypeKiller has a legitimate business case and who am I to judge their relevance to readers. While I'd not talk to them about a sponsorship and I'd certainly not encourage them in their advertising I'm not sure I can block them through the Google Adsense System even if I want to. So I look at some of the advertising as potentially informative. Witness the number of VoIP products that are featured.
Still I can just imagine the response at Skype when they next read Skype Journal and see it with a SkypeKiller ad. Guys! Forgive me.... it was not the plan.
Comments
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Posted by: relaxedguy | February 23, 2006 10:27 AM
Hi guys.
Funny thing I found out when looking for some news about voip clients. I was searching for news about voipbuster through google, and accidentaly typed 'voibbuster'. I did get some results but the funny thing was this adsense advertisement I saw:
Voipbuster Onlline
Get Voipbuster credit today!
Voipbuster. Talk for free.
www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/
I don't believe Skype would actually use voipbuster for it's Adsense advertisements and also write onLLine, actually.
If you search for any variation of voipbuster you'll get to see these ads:
voipbuster, voicebuster, foipbuster, voipcuster, viopbuster etc. Try it and you'll see.
Any ideas why Skype would do this? I don't believe it's actually them doing this....
Also: keep blogging, love the site guys!
Posted by: Julien Samuel | May 1, 2007 01:08 AM
can you email the skype blog advert where a woman is trapped in building and gets rescued by a superhero please its cool!!
Posted by: sarah clarke | February 23, 2008 08:32 AM