Gamey@feddit.rocks to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoTotally not a ad company!message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1201arrow-down1message-squareTotally not a ad company!Gamey@feddit.rocks to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up78·10 months agoI’d argue some magazines are basically ad pushers wrapped around a thin layer of minimum effort articles. Hell, most of them, when I think about it. Google, though… ads are their core business.
minus-squareLazaroFilm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·10 months agoAd publishing platform. They don’t make the ad, that’s the ad company but they are distributors.
minus-squareLEX@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agoThe term ‘newshole’ was used by newspaper publishers to describe the amount of space left to print news after the ads were all laid out. The ad placements were planned out first, then news articles were literally edited to fit around them.
minus-squareTurtleTourParty@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIs that where clickhole gets its name?
minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoI agree about magazines being ad pushers. And they have the balls to charge $10+ for the “content”.
I’d argue some magazines are basically ad pushers wrapped around a thin layer of minimum effort articles.
Hell, most of them, when I think about it.
Google, though… ads are their core business.
Ad publishing platform. They don’t make the ad, that’s the ad company but they are distributors.
The term ‘newshole’ was used by newspaper publishers to describe the amount of space left to print news after the ads were all laid out. The ad placements were planned out first, then news articles were literally edited to fit around them.
Is that where clickhole gets its name?
I agree about magazines being ad pushers. And they have the balls to charge $10+ for the “content”.