UKNM: RE: UKNM Digest V1 #327

[Ian Tester]

John wrote:


"1. There have been several sites where I have responded to a banner - on

clicking the banner the connection has failed and I never made it through to

the advertiser (a criminal error if there was one to be made!). Usually this

is because the company holding the banner has got a slow ad server(s)

(Anyone prepared to give a better explanation for this one?). Annoyingly

this mistake has been made by some of the higher traffic / profile sites."


I used to do a lot of analysis of online advertising, and one

to-remain-nameless largish ad sales house at one point in 1998 failed to

connect their clients' banners through to their sites pretty consistently

(can't remember the exact figure, but it was beeeeeg) for a 3 month period .

. .as far as i could work out, it had to be incompetence. . .and lack of QA 


Continuing in a cynical vein, when buying advertising once from 2 of the

biggest online properties (both top end of top 50 trafficwise worldwide) we

decided (for a laugh, natch) to do some fairly detailed log analysis - which

revealed a large amount of clickthroughs coming in bursts . . . from inside

the building of the company we'd bought the ads from . . .ahem! that

naturally had nothing to do with the "guaranteed clickthrough rate" that we

negotiated with them. . .


maybe it's all got a lot better since then . . . ?


i 


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