Comments on: Excess pay and excess bloat http://lancewiggs.com/2009/10/30/excess-pay-and-excess-bloat/ NZ Internet, Media and Business Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: M Feitas http://lancewiggs.com/2009/10/30/excess-pay-and-excess-bloat/#comment-14513 M Feitas Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:34:53 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/2009/10/30/excess-pay-and-excess-bloat/#comment-14513 A couple of years ago I was approached and offered video ads for Geekzone - those same video ads that show up on the side of the browser and (sometimes) start playing witout any intervention - a pain for office workers who don't want to make too much noise while others are doing their tasks, etc, etc. Anyway, it was enticing with promises of up to $100/CPM! What old media company wouldn't take it? No, we didn't accept the ads. Even now if a flash ad uses a bit too much CPU and interfering with other users's tasks I will get emails from readers - and a couple of times we did take down offending ads. Can you imagine what a bunch of geeks would say if we had those video ads? A couple of years ago I was approached and offered video ads for Geekzone – those same video ads that show up on the side of the browser and (sometimes) start playing witout any intervention – a pain for office workers who don’t want to make too much noise while others are doing their tasks, etc, etc.

Anyway, it was enticing with promises of up to $100/CPM! What old media company wouldn’t take it?

No, we didn’t accept the ads. Even now if a flash ad uses a bit too much CPU and interfering with other users’s tasks I will get emails from readers – and a couple of times we did take down offending ads.

Can you imagine what a bunch of geeks would say if we had those video ads?

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