More Adverts

**Ghostsuit** · 2nd February 2007, 9:28pm

Costs
Unfortunately nearly everything in the world costs money. It's a reality we all have to come to terms with and AN is no different. Servers cost money and that money has to come from somewhere.

Adverts
So we've added another advertising areas to the site and will probably look at adding one or two more.

We had a couple of options.
Add pop ups - I hate pop up and so does everyone else

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Add more big banner from some corporate ad company - It's an option but we already have that
Add banners from the good guy down the street - I like this idea.

So what is it?
It's a white hole obviously - I had to say it before someone else did.

These adverts are kind of special in that anyone (that includes you reading this) can buy them and you don't have to spend a £100. For a pound or two you can buy an advert on the site. All you do is click advert space up there and follow the instructions.

So if you have a gig coming up, a record coming out, a club night promote, jewelry to sell, a site to pimp, or even just want to wind up a mate for a few quid now and a little effort designing the button you can do it.

Heres how it works...

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Advertising on Alternative Nation is offered through Project Wonderful. We bring a model of transparency and fairness to online advertising. Ads are sold through our innovative infinite auction model: you bid on an advertising slot, and for as long as you are the high bidder, your ad is displayed. You can bid whatever price you'd like for as long as you'd like: two days, a week, a year - it's your choice.
All bids are in "CPD", or "cost per day" - you simply tell us how much you're willing to pay for a day's worth of advertising, and whenever you are the high bidder, your ad will be displayed! You're only charged for the time periods when your ad is shown. You can also set hard expense limits on your bids, so you'll never get charged more than you expect. You can find out more about the auction process here.

So if you get a bid in soon you could get your advert up for next to nothing

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Oh and as always site sponsors don't see the adverts so if you really hate them for as little as £2 a week you can banish them and all other adverts from your sight. > Sponsor Altnation

Any other questions ask here.

Exit_W0unds · 2nd February 2007, 9:44pm

So, if I pay enough, could I just have a ikkle button that says "Bum!" ?

endemoniada · 2nd February 2007, 9:46pm

I think this could be fun

Addy · 2nd February 2007, 9:46pm

It's tempting not to renew my sponsorship in April just to see the joke adverts people put up now

*oh the irony!*

**Ghostsuit** · 2nd February 2007, 9:52pm

Congrats to UnkleMarkus for a nifty idea to promotte himself and to Woolies for getting the word out about spoilt cat

unkle markus · 2nd February 2007, 9:52pm

haha It worked. I'm somehow amazed.

If Intensefilms had a website I woulda used that I just wanted to test how it worked.

Good idea though.

**Ghostsuit** · 2nd February 2007, 9:53pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arachno

It's tempting not to renew my sponsorship in April just to see the joke adverts people put up now

*oh the irony!*

I could put an option in that allows you to choose wither or not to see certain adverts

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Having said that you could just logout and have a look

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Originally Posted by unkle markus

haha It worked. I'm somehow amazed.

If Intensefilms had a website I woulda used that I just wanted to test how it worked.

Good idea though.

It's pretty decent system

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Oh and the adverts can be animated

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**Shannow** · 2nd February 2007, 9:55pm

wheeeeeeeee

Woolies · 2nd February 2007, 9:56pm

pesky speedy Unkle, if I had image editting software on this comp then I'd have gotten a better pic as well

But aye, it's free advertising for you for up to two days at present btw people, get in quick and have fun and/or test the system out so you can see how easy it is to advertise & promote your site, band or any other projects using it, the prices will go up as "real" advertisers with their marketting budgets get in on the act but hopefully never to a level where it's unrealistic for AN members to use the spaces for a time.