Porn banner Ads on Rediff

When a major website, that caters to a mainstream audience streams such an advertisement, as is shown in the screenshot here, I would like to question the quality department or the ad sales team, if this was intentional, or have they sold out to the porn industry. I know you that rediff just turned profitable recently, and rediff's main source of income is online advertising, but I am surprised that they are allowing some ad serving company to serve such an ad.

Look carefully, it looks like two girls engaged in a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but none of the two seemed to have just been drowned, so I would think it was an ad from a lesbian site, keeping in mind the caption also which says "College Girls Are more fun". When I clicked the banner, it returned a site called perfspot.

I would like to think that the ad server ads.yieldx.com is the url, served the ad by mistake, but Rediff should take a stern action against such an advertiser.
The post was not written with a intention to trash Rediff, and I respect rediff a lot, but they should be more careful about their advertisement partners.

Unlike the late 90's dot com boom, when websites that sprung up with advertisements as the sole source of revenues failed miserably, leading to a recession that extended to the whole IT industry, there are many dot coms today that are not only sustaining, but making profits on online ads alone. And there are thousands of ad servers and advertisement solutions company today that provides, online advertisements starting from PPC, CPM ads, CPAs, and affiliates.

PPC or Pay per click is the most popular today with company like Yahoo and google providing Pay per Click advertising, where they serve what is called contextual advertisement [I use google PPC advertisement], wherein google or yahoo will serve text based advertisement which are relevant to the content. Advertisers will pay google everytime someone clicks on the ad, and google will pay the website owner that money after taking its cut.

CPMs are impression based where advertisers pay the website based on how many times the ads are served on the website. These are basically the banners ads which is the point of the post here today. Many Banner ad solutions provider don't accept porn ads, so I was surprised when rediff show such a banner ad. These comapnies surely pays a higher CPM or cost per impression, eg when a clean banner ad would pay 100 rupee per thousand visitors, a banner ad that allows porn might give a higher payout of 120 rupee.

But I am sure rediff won't want to squeeze all it advertisement space to the extent of serving porn ads. What next? Adult friend finder affiliates?

The said banner ad would surely offend a lot of regular visitors to Rediff.

Here is the link to the ad, this is a referral link, but this is the link that served that ad .

And here is the LINK to the page which served the porn banner ad. I got a Jeevan Sathi dot com advertisement the second time.

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Flash Advertisements or Quick Commercial Breaks!

One more quick Post.
I used to write regularly, then I got busy with work, and saw that it was difficult to write more often on my blog. Then I got busier and busier. Past few weeks, I have been even more busier, then something happened. Like they say that an Idle Mind is a Devil's workshop, an active mind is a Blogger's workshop. The more I get busier, the more ideas I get for blogging, and then I just couldn't stop myself... Expect an avalanche of post as I get busier....



I am not one who spends a lot of time watching TV. Maybe it is the time, maybe because I don't stay home much. Either I am at work or am en route to and from work, so the few times I watch TV, I watch more commercials than Content. It irritates me when they just stop during a suspense build up to break for a commercial. Obviously, I surf during that time, and get to see more commercials, talk about cartels.

Poor advertisers fails to grab the attention of their audience. Failure of Advertising, is it? Soon, they will realise how false the DATA provided by the Cable TV companies are, on the exposure of the said advertisement to such and such demographics.

It irritates anyway that we get commercial breaks, unless the commercial is downright funny, but that too won't be funny after the third day.

Why is it then, that nobody has thought of Guerilla Commercial breaks.
Flash Advertisements.

Stop abruptly, show only one commercial, make it short so that it is not worthwhile for the viewer to change the channel or mute it. There might be less commercial time slot, so as not to IRRITATE the audience too much, but advertiser will surely be willing to pay a premium for a commercial which will not be Muted or skipped.