Big Sites Don't Draw Big Spenders
from the you-should-be-advertising-on-psychicrealm.com dept
It turns out that the sites that attract the most traffic, don't always attract the biggest spenders so if you're silly enough to believe that online advertising actually works - maybe you shouldn't just be giving away your hard earned venture capital money to Yahoo. Instead, you should figure out what corners of the web the rich and powerful hang out in and dump your wasted banner ads there. You might be surprised. The Detroit News readers have a higher "Buying Power" ranking than those who read the Wall Street Journal. Of course, I visit almost none of the sites listed, which either reflects my current (lack of) "buying power" or, perhaps, just the type of contrarian surfer I really am. I like to hang out with the riffraff.
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