Another Advertising issue (not OSU related)
October 10th, 2018 at 1:18 PM ^
I see it as well...
October 10th, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
AdBlock extension on Chrome FTW.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:19 PM ^
Could be automated ad placement. Not something MGoBlog decided.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:21 PM ^
Am I the only one that gets momentarily excited thinking a meme is coming, only to be let down by a foot cream ad?
October 10th, 2018 at 1:26 PM ^
my god, I just realized it's only a matter of time before memes become ads.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:02 PM ^
Are you on instagram? Memes are already ads. Fucking Fashion Nova...
October 10th, 2018 at 3:33 PM ^
What's instagram?
October 10th, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
Be careful, the ads will become self aware soon....I saw a whole South Park episode on it
October 10th, 2018 at 3:38 PM ^
Now, to be fair, if you do a lot of walking between and along work sites like I do some days, those ads for Gold Bond Medicated Powder are a welcome sight indeed.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
I"m getting those also. I assume it is enabled by mgoblog since it is within their content.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:26 PM ^
That 'foot' cream is actually a very high quality moisturizer and it leaves your 'foot' soft and hydrated.
Or so i've been told, by a friend....
October 10th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
Seth has posted about this previously if you missed it. They are testing ad placements with a program Google runs to optimize ad revenue. They won’t put them in comments long term regardless, but they don’t control the placements during the test phase.
October 10th, 2018 at 7:31 PM ^
nailed it.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
Just a little source of outside income my friend. Hilton contacted me and asked if they could run ads inside my posts cause they noticed the extremely high blog readership of my thoughts on things.
I just assumed everybody was getting a sponsor - no?
October 10th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
You guys are a good match. You know with all the traveling you do to see your suddenly awesome Cleveland sports teams in their various playoff games.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
Hmmm... you got Hilton as a sponsor?
I'm sponsored by a book - must be because I am a voracious reader.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:41 PM ^
Is that Ace?
October 10th, 2018 at 5:40 PM ^
No, I don’t think Ace is Asian
October 10th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
It's like people only post on mgoblog because they can get paid. And that's just really sad
October 10th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
I'm highly annoyed by the ad on the side suddenly becoming a pop up ad that moves and blocks the message board. Today is the first time I've noticed it. Anyone else?
October 10th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^
Mine moves with the scrolling but once you get back to the message board area it shoves back down so I can see them.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:51 PM ^
Given they're using a program to optimize ad placement, I'm sure there's AB testing going on so I would expect to see different types of ads and placements over time. Some people will be in the same test group and some won't be.
October 10th, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^
Ah, that makes sense. Well I’m not a fan of these ads. You hear that Mr. Webdeveloper?
October 10th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
How many of these threads are we going to have? Here is the previous thread where the issue is addressed and then explained. https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/meta-ads-middle-posts
Per Seth: "At the moment we are running a test program through Google that tries out all sorts of empty spaces for ad positions, and then we'll pick which ones we want to keep that aren't annoying but also mean we get to keep doing this for a living."
October 10th, 2018 at 2:27 PM ^
This blog does have a shitload of empty white space to utilize...
October 10th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
I've been getting the skimpy mens bathing suit ads and the gay cruise ads. Just do not tell my wife.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
I got an "erotic" cruise ad a few days ago.
And it worked. I clicked the crap out of their site looking for sideboob or a stray nipple.
October 10th, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
and???
October 10th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^
I strictly use only the mobile version. I never have any of these "issues".
October 10th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^
I just got an ad for "temi - The Personal Robot" and I really want it. I'm the reason why ads exist...smh
October 10th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
Just read your comment and looked to the right and boom, Temi the Robot was there.
/socially engineered, thanks Google
October 10th, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
Boom x 2, at least.....I got the same ad. But those things terrify me and I wouldn't be caught dead in the same room as one of those things. I think one of them will eventually kill me.
October 10th, 2018 at 2:12 PM ^
Just how "personal" does Temi get?
Asking for a friend
October 10th, 2018 at 2:01 PM ^
Ads inside the stadium
October 10th, 2018 at 2:28 PM ^
You can help influence how the final advertising is designed by hitting the 'x' on the top right corners of the ads and selecting 'Stop seeing this ad', then select a reason one of the reasons is 'Ad covered content' which is probably appropriate for the ads in weird locations.
October 10th, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
I thought I was past all these annoying ads, but now I'm getting multiple ads for some (mobile?) game called Second Life featuring pregnant CGI characters. oy vey... I keep hitting the "stop showing me this ad" button, and I'm sure it will go away in 2 weeks :rolleyes:
October 10th, 2018 at 7:55 PM ^
Of course when I got this one, I ended up wasting the next hour of my life to find out if Second Life was really still in business and reading the very long Wikipedia entry chronicling their very boring history of mediocrity.
October 10th, 2018 at 5:52 PM ^
I just got this "advertisement" and I'm not quite sure what to think or how to feel about it.
October 10th, 2018 at 7:31 PM ^
Wow the no assclown image from the old mod action stickies!
October 13th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
Drew Sharp's 2nd coming!