Doesn't this sort of prove a point? If blocking the obnoxious ads is that easy, maybe that's why these sites are struggling. The idea was supposed to be that if you are a business looking to advertise, you can connect more closely with your target audience. It's Modern Tribalism. You connect with your tribe.
What happened to MarketWatch?
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I do not block all ads. Just the obnoxious ones. Many sites, especially the kinds that autorun videos etc. also deliver malware through those plugins. I get the interest / website revenue aspect. But also need to protect my computer from malware
Well I'm not picking on you and its your biz anyway. Just calling into question the business model. Makes me wonder about others, perhaps Facebook, though I know little about how they generate revenue. Google seems safe, but maybe there are some short candidates here. Seems like there would be big discrepancies between what an ad company promised and what the business in the ad received as sales. It's probably hard to find info. I don't think it's something executives would talk about except off the record. Baron, any comment?
And he came from the NYPost? How did he ever get that job. Something is not right.
Baron
ET Founder
TWTR is probably the biggest example of an online service that simply can't survive on ads. No matter how much revenue they bring in, they still can't make money. I could be wrong but I don't think they've ever netted one penny since their inception.
Is there any better finance site out there? I'm getting sick of the garbage click bait articles coming from the hack MW and Bloomberg writers these days.
What financial news sites do you guys use?