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Poll: 25,000 Ad Exposures at active-hardware.com for $100 shall we spend some money??

I'd say it does warant some more looking into it. If they get a decent amount of traffic flow, then hell yes, go for it. 🙂
 
How long would 25,000 eyeballs last? Is this a week's worth of exposure? A month? Also, do we have any info on how effective the article here at Anandtech was?
 
Hmmm, it does seem to be the kind of site that we are looking for, but I would need to know how many unique visitors they get per day, week, etc.


How about we place an ad at a high traffic site, say /. or tweakers.net?

😉😉😉
 
Let's try it for the $100. If it does not work out, we can try another.
If it works out, we can leave the ad for awhile.

/edit/ Took a plunge into the forums and there seems to be a large community of regular people in there. Looks like a relative good target audience for our ad campaign.
Mabye also an idea to let some of our hardware specialists go in there and help out in the many problems around there. If build up a relationship with the site-visitors, then a request for joining can be put in the forums. /edit/
 
I voted yes, but wouldnt a much larger site like storagereview.com or theregister.co.uk be a better target? I couldn't find any advertising info on thereg but storage review bosts a million hits site wide a month, how many are unique I don't know. As far as Im concerned you and Dan can decide since there really doesn't appear to be too much interest in this anymore.
 
It's not that I'm not interested, but I don't think we can run this thing in a purely democratic fashion, takes too long to reach consensus on anything. In our representative form of government, I think Train and DanC have been elected to do what they think is right, so go for it. That money will be sitting there 6 months from now as TOOCOOL pointed out if you wait on everyone to vote. We trust your aim, pull the trigger. 🙂
 
Well, to do 4 times as much on the Andover network (minimum purchase is 100,000 impressions) would cost $7000. I don't think that's an option. (Andover owns Slashdot, Freshmeat, Mediabuilder, Dave Central, etc).
 
I think this is a good place to start.

Peter makes good sense (as usual) about TA ppl getting into their forums to help out (their forum traffic seems to be steady and friendly).

Jim & TooCool are correct about one thing: we need to start somewhere and SOON!
 
you guys are all missing the point, its not about how much traffic a site gets, its the amount of exposures you buy, 25,000 views is 25,000 views, doesnt matter if its on stupidsite.com or Yahoo.com the point is this site has amazing rates, for 25,000, full size banner, its $100, for a banner half as wide, its only $50

The rate is $4 per thousand, most sites avg $20 per thousand, this is a great place to start, and we are spending only $100 of the $1000+ we raised, if it doesnt produce, we can move to another site.

Oh, and we are trying to stay away from sites, such as /. who already have a well established distributed computing team, advertising on a site like that could have negative returns.
 
Great, thanks to DanC and Train for working so hard on this. Also a big thanks to Everyone who contributed to the "banner fund"
 
I posted this in another thead but you might not of seen it.

Combatsim.com has 200,000 views spread over 30 days for $500. It averages down to $2.50/thousand. There's more info here. They also have some big forums that we could spend some time in. 🙂 I don't see the info on that site I linked, but I believe I saw somewhere on Combatsim.com that they get around 14 million views per month, but I'm not positive.
 
Maybe a banner at Combatsim should put emphasis on the competative aspects of DC.
At first I thought Combatsim was not a great idea, but if you think about it, a lot of gamers build their own stuff or at least upgrade it. So we could also offer "tweaking advice" in our forums 😉
The more I think about the more I think DanC's on the right track - do both!

just my .02
 
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