{"id":431,"date":"2010-02-07T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2010-02-07T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T18:15:12","slug":"another-reason-that-ad-supported-teh-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/431","title":{"rendered":"Another reason that ad-supported == teh suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalzumeus.com\/2010\/02\/07\/what-my-user-survey-taught-me\/\">article from &#8216;MicroISV on a shoestring&#8217;<\/a> (which is a blog worth keeping up with, if you ask me) has an interesting insight. Patrick says that ad-supported sites are less likely to craft a good user experience, because if the site is better than the ads, the site doesn&#8217;t make money. Oversimplified, sure, but it does point out one of the forces at play in the overall dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s a variation on something I&#8217;ve been thinking about, that I should get paid for the value I bring, rather than for the value that my advertisers bring. Or my ability to get people to look at little come-ons that give them the perception that there is some value elsewhere, to be more precise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;course, setting aside the absurd logic and perverse incentives, I&#8217;m glad that somehow ads occasionally work out such that people make good content and also make money from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from &#8216;MicroISV on a shoestring&#8217; (which is a blog worth keeping up with, if you ask me) has an interesting insight. Patrick says that ad-supported sites are less likely to craft a good user experience, because if the site is better than the ads, the site doesn&#8217;t make money. Oversimplified, sure, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}