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Re: 4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

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This. Many boards have threads that discuss how much they spend on a hobby or what they just bought: /mu/, /fa/, and /a/ come to mind.

And the endless waves of mechanical keyboard, headphone and new computer part threads on /g/.

Almost regrettably repetitive.

Re: 4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

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The biggest problem with buying 4chan traffic is that it's not easily targeted towards any specific type of person. The anonymous nature of the site will forever hold its ad revenues back in the past as other social sites (Facebook, Twitter, PoF.com, reddit, etc) further advance their targeting abilities.

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Re: 4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

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The obvious solution for 4chan would seem to be retargeting because no-one wants to expose themselves to the 4chan audience, but retargeting would mean only targeting those members of 4chan who would be seeing their adverts elsewhere anyway. It'd also mean that all 4chan users would get different adverts so there would be no momentum around a particular advert in the community.

this remains problematic because the reason they have trouble attracting advertisers is that the brands don't want to be associated with 4chan. So retargeting would be okay, until some submits a screenshot to the Consumerist showing a BMW ad 40 px away from a picture of a decapitated cat.

Doesn't matter that the person who submitted it had just googled 'San Francisco BMW dealership'

Re: 4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

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I don't understand your comment. What would be the problem with someone admitting publicly that they've been to 4chan?

It's like publicly admitting you spend your spare time in a crack house: much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.

>much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.

Wrong, but thanks for playing.

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I don't understand your comment. What would be the problem with someone admitting publicly that they've been to 4chan?

It's like publicly admitting you spend your spare time in a crack house: much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.

>much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.

Most, if not all, of your so called "illegal", "immoral or malicious" behavior comes from a certain handful of boards, of which there are over fifty. For most, the only illegal/immoral stuff they engage in is piracy and just generally being assholes, both of which can be found on almost any online congregation.

In short, lel.

Re: 4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20

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It's like publicly admitting you spend your spare time in a crack house: much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.

>much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious. Wrong, but thanks for playing.

With all respect, moot, 4chan breaks a huge number of laws about copyright protection (half of which were made specifically to illegalize file-sharing, of course). Raiding is certainly malicious, even if you enjoy it.

And I don't think debating morality with the founder of 4chan is productive; if you have a moral sense it must be almost entirely libertarian.

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