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Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

youtube downloader — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:53:47 -0000

I’ll share with you where I don’t mind seeing ads, and where I’d rather defer the ads until a different point. I’ll share with you my favorite ads (voting like Digg), and I will promise you as much data as you can manage.

Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

Debs — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:26:44 -0000

chris - what you describe relates closely to stuff Doc, myself and the rest of the Project VRM crew is wrestling with - jump in!!!

Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

Glenda Watson Hyatt — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:21:23 -0000

Chris, isn't this a solution to a problem? But I thought you said you weren't a problem-solver. ;)

Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

Connie Crosby — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:02:57 -0000

Law librarians in Canada were successful in getting English language legal publishers to provide RSS feeds for their new book titles for us, so we could ignore all the direct mail and email marketing and instead focus exactly on the books we needed. It took 1 1/2 years of direct pressure to one specific set of vendors. But the demand has now been taken up by law librarians in other countries. It's going to take time, but it could happen....

Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

courtney benson — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:37:38 -0000

It will get a lot worse before it gets better. Take a look at the continuing serge of start-up companies - many still are in advertising with most being me too or with a slightly different slant. Web start up s think that they can all have a advertising model, job postings in tech are heavy into advertising for now. My only question is as the recession bubbles up who will have the money to buy what is advertised - not Americans!

Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

Marcel LeBrun — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:56:13 -0000

I would love this too and have often thought about the concept of reverse advertising. In some ways it seems like the ultimate win-win... you only get stuff you are interested in and advertisers get the ultimate profile of your interests. But then I realize that I likely would not put the time in to maintain or update any such profile. Once the advertising stops I would be happy and my profile would likely remain static. You?

Re: Backwards Advertising- A Wish

Dan Schawbel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:16:40 -0000

The problem is that they don't care what we think and they keep feeding us ads we don't want to see Chris.