AOL Buys Advertising.com For No Clear Reason
from the there-goes-that-idea dept
AOL announced today that they're buying Advertising.com. What's not entirely clear, however, is why. They claim it's to "provide advertisers with an opportunity to reach more than 140 million Internet users." Of course, advertisers already had that opportunity. Advertising.com works with advertisers to connect them to 1,500 publishers -- but now, in being owned by AOL, they'll be competing with those publishers. If that's the case, Advertising.com is likely to lose a lot of business from publishers, and will really only be useful for advertising on AOL properties. Of course, there were already ways to advertise on AOL, so it's not entirely clear how useful this will be. Still, it has to be slightly better than relying on scamming employees to sell AOL email addresses to spammers as a way of advertising to AOL customers.
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Aohell sucks
Aohell is notorious THEMSELVES for selling or "renting" their subscribers information to 3rd parties. Buying Advertising.com is proof in point.
Aohell blathers on about how they protect your privacy and its an outright lie.
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Re: Aohell sucks
You make three claims in your posting, and all of them are completely without basis. Unless, of course, you happen to have evidence?
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Re: Aohell sucks
A post about me posting about Aohell ... even more boring than your post.
Cheers
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