Online Advertising is getting out of control

Hey, I meanz, c'maan, ya know...if you hook-nosed fuckers weren't trying to systematically put everyone out of business, maybe they wouldn't have to try so hard

I have never considered CTR to be relevant.. In fact, I actually use my banners/spots to filter out traffic and begin pitch continuity. The only thing that matters to me is EPC.

Blows my mind watching some of these larger buyers only focus on tracking and click performance. Granted, rotating offers to align processing with X country is extremely important.. But huge (and I mean absolutely huge) money is left on the table by ad buyers who sling terrible generic landers/front ends with zero pitch/branding continuity through to join (trust building at a glance).

But I'm grateful.. It's exactly these oversights that allow me (a smedium buyer) to compete

Thommy,

While I don't agree with you politically.. You've made some very estute business related posts. Although I mainly buy us-geo, I'll have to give Traffic Fabrik a look Clicked traffic is a personal favorite.

i can say the same about you when it comes to business threads.

I am not sure if our US traffic can make you happy as we do not have much of it.
our focus is on german speaking countries but maybe next year we will go a bit more international.
but this will take some time as I do not see many potential publishers for us in this market that will understand our concept. so we will build this traffic up with mainly own sites.

but if you want to try trafficfabrik I can help you getting the best out of it. the traffic is the same quality over all GEOs but as you surley know it is MUCH harder to optimize on small numbers as on bigger. but if you familiar with trackers and postbacks and this stuff it should not be too hard to learn especially because the competition in this smaller geos is not that strong as in our focus market.

anyway - if you are happy and buy more i reserve already the bonuscode "trumpisanasshole" for you to get a little discount

So now with Chrome you can remove javascript by site - this allows you to remove add blocker blockers. You won't get the javascript stuff, but you will get the news, pics, etc.

an ad blocker blocker is just ONE option that can be used. there are many other ways to go around this blockers and show ads to users with active blockers.

Yep that can be mitigated easily, by not allowing access without JavaScript enabled. Since 99.99% of users using JS, no point to allow access without it.

This works with 98% of mainstream sites though - and how are you doing active without JS?

If I can't access a site without whitelisting it, I shrug and close the site. And never return.