Here's the deal. Web advertising is changing, but nobody knows where it is going. AZB is experimenting with different ad formats. The banner ads you see every day were complained about loudly when they first came out, now are accepted.
We NEED to find advertising methods that work for our advertisers or we go away. It's that simple. So we experiment. Now, we certainly don't want to piss off the readers. So, give us your ideas. What forms of ads will both be effective (meaning you see and read them) and yet are not intrusive?
The new ad you see now is set to come up only once per sign-in and only when you transfer from the main page to the forum page. It only stays up a few seconds, long enough for the menu to load in the background behind the ad. So it costs you no time, it only has you see it instead of the menu loading. And you only see it once per sign-in. That seems pretty unobtrusive to me, but we want to hear more from you.
We are an advertising vehicle. Fact of life. So how do we advertise to you in ways that will make you support our advertisers the way the sponsors of other sports are supported by the fans?
The ad you are now seeing for 3 seconds is the same full-page ad that you see in Billiards Digest or any of the other magazines. I am curious why many of you find it offensive here but do not fly into a rage when you find it in your magazine. After all, you are paying for the magazine, AZB is free, and yet you accept the support of the ad in the magazine but not here. Help us out here, guys. Do you want to pay us magazine subscription rates and have less advertising or keep the site free and see ads?
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