{"id":10930,"date":"2007-11-21T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T12:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/21\/waiting-for-an-online-advertising-revolution\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:36:15","slug":"waiting-for-an-online-advertising-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/21\/waiting-for-an-online-advertising-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for an online advertising revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quoting Stan Schroeder of Mashable<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The thing is, AdSense is just too easy to abuse. Click an ad, and there goes a couple of dollars. Turn it into a meme or a viral joke and thousands go down the drain, together with the entire idea of click-based ads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree,\u00a0 the system is easy to abuse and it is getting abused a lot.\u00a0 But it still works.\u00a0 It helps a lot of people make a lot of money. And until it is so, it won’t go or even change much.<\/p>\n

Now the question is – what are the alternatives?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Quoting Stan Schroeder of Mashable: The thing is, AdSense is just too easy to abuse. Click an ad, and there goes a couple of dollars. Turn it into a meme or a viral joke and thousands go down the drain, together with the entire idea of click-based ads. I agree,\u00a0 the system is easy to … Continue reading Waiting for an online advertising revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1186,1968,2073,124],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-advertising","tag-business","tag-google-adsense","tag-web"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12241,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/09\/blocking-ads-on-your-favorite-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":10930,"position":0},"title":"Blocking ads on your favorite sites","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Kottke links to a post in Ars Technica with an argument that people shouldn't use ad blocking browser plugins when visiting their favorite sites. \u00a0The argument is as old as ad blocking browser plugins. \u00a0And I most often here exactly that side of the story - the site that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10340,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/conspiracy-of-context-sensitive-advertising\/","url_meta":{"origin":10930,"position":1},"title":"Conspiracy of context sensitive advertising","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I think I've uncovered another conspiracy by Google, particularly with their context sensitive advertising service AdSense. 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