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Originally posted by Tonda_WEGCash@Jan 14 2004, 12:51 PM
I am not interested in skinning...I am interested in people's thoughts on skinning.
Your thoughts are quite interesting as on one hand you allude to the fact that skinning has a real value. On the other hand, you say that in your opinion you do not think it takes away from monthly advertisers as a particular skinning lasts only a week (on average). Interesting that you think they can co-exist without decreasing the value. Do you base this solely on the amount of time a skin is up? Please elaborate
Very interesting...CJ what do you think about this?
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personally, i think purchasing plain old ads on message boards is pretty useless these days - all it does is show that you have enough money to pay your bills each month as it has been for good year or more, but a stand alone button or banner is just not enough.
i loved the skinning ideas for that particular company who is doing the skinning. if you have something new to launch, i think buying a banner spot would get you 3 clicks, but skinning, pinned threads or anything different gets attention. For this reason i think its a great idea to get lots of attention for a short period of time.
the last 2 skins on gfy i have gone there to look and see, but more out of curiousity at what the programs are up to. when ars did it, they had something really new & amazing that folks cared about but silvercash doesn't seem to have done anything exciting much but made their site silver so i thought it was a stupid waste of money.
i would love if webmaster boards started offering superstitials, which in my opinion is the most effective form of advertising because its got all the elements of tv that we accept already ... ads that you cannot ignore, you can't continue what you are doing without stopping to see the ad. If every half an hour an ad flashed across the screen in front of us saying 'weg cash paying 15% bonus on valentines day' you couldn't ignore it. when the superstitial finishes, it flies up to the 'ad nest' at the top & draws your attention to all banners which may be good or bad for that particular advertiser.
then all advertisers are on the same level and it comes down to whoever makes the best ad ...
i just can't see how a banner can be worth anything if you are going to give some companies the opportunity to skin the entire board ...