Who would you LIKE to see in the ad banner?

OK guys, lets put on our thinking caps…

What type of ads would you click on if they were up there? With the diverse locations of the posters, I would approach National Advertisers. As we are for the most part, 20-30 somethings, appear for the most part to be articulate, possibly affluent or have the possiblity of future affluence, advertisers should be fighting over us!

Travel agencies,
coke/pepsi
car companies - esp nontraditional ones like Saturn
Investment companies - they would be a perfect fit here, as we are all intelligent enough to understand the need to plan for the future
chapters, or other national chains of bookstores
C’mon guys, any other ideas?

Honestly, how about a picture of kellibelli?! :wink:


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I’d like to see The Onion. They’re amusing, and I would think they have roughly the same demo as SD.

I have to be honest, I never even notice the ad banners. I’ve developed a focused blind spot when it comes to them, unless they plastered everydamplace on the website.

Now if only I could develop a deaf ear for car commercials.

I totally misunderstood the question. I was going to say “George Clooney.” :o


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  • Honestly * , I’m with vogue, I was thinking ‘who WOULD I like to see, yum yum, up on a banner’, rats!!

Anything with computer/music/books would make me click on it. That’s what I shop for most online. CDNow, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. That help, kelli??

There was an interesting banner at NetZero that made me click too, it had to do with sending e mail greeting cards. I don’t remember the name of the company though.

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Can I get that in writing?
Please! :wink:

I would second The Onion. I think the mentality of interested parties would probably match that of the Teeming Millions.


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Well, I’ll post a list of links that the ads would go have to go to for me to click on them.
www.manshow.com www.msnbc.com www.imdb.com
Hmmmm. That’s about it.

As this board is top-heavy with the Brainiac sector of the populace (with certain notable exceptions), some techy-geeky ads wouldn’t be out of place:

O’Reilly Press
Slashdot
IDG Publications (Infoworld, Network Week, etc.)
ZDNet
CMP Publications (Byte, Information Week, etc.)

Hardware and software vendors (assuming the demographics of the place can justify it)

IBM
Sun
Oracle
Red Hat
Compaq
Dell
Gateway
Even the Evil Empire itself, Microsoft (hell, if anybody has the ad bucks to burn, they do.)

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Given the number of tech-types who post here, the various jobs/career sites ought to be advertising here. Also companies that sell hardware and software to tech businesses, since some posters here have to be in a capacity to make or influence purchasing decisions.

Other than that, I’ll second some of what the others said. I’m surprised not to have seen a banner for amazon or barnesandnoble.com a long time ago; smart people read a lot more than the typical American. Other good fits would be cdnow, zdnet, travelocity, the airlines themselves, anyone selling consumer software or gadgetry, intelligent webzines (e.g. salon.com), etc.

In some parts of the country, the word is, there isn’t enough advertising space/time for all the dot-coms that want to get some public exposure. In such an environment, there ought to be some ad bucks to be made on this site.

We do a lot of searching around here - maybe some search engines would like to lure us into their clutches, er, sites.

Or how about reference sites like britannica.com and the aforementioned imdb? I wouldn’t mind being able to point and click on an ad banner to reach those places - easier than opening favorites.

I third “The Onion” idea.

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Who would you LIKE to see in the ad banner?

Female gym teachers.

Kellibelli, get on the horn and find us some gym teachers!