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

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Post by fdm » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20
4chan.org

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Post by xkcdfanboy » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:04 PM UTC

I don't think any serious business would advertise on 4chan. The audience is too illicit and ill-mannered.

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Post by nemo1618 » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:05 PM UTC

4chan has been struggling to break even for years, mostly because no one wants to advertise there. So I think these "self-serve" ads are a great idea because they engage the community. After all, 4chan's biggest strength has always been its users.

Now that I think of it, this play was probably inspired by the recent 4chan banner/ad contests that drew thousands of submissions, many of them quite high quality.

I'm excited to see what people do with this. Good work moot.

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Post by eli_gottlieb » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

I like how we Hacker News users are brave enough to admit under very public profiles that we have, in fact, been to 4chan.

EDIT: This post was not sarcastic or ironic. Though I do think /pol/ is a hive of neo-Nazi scum /flameproof-suit.

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Post by vacipr » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

Great.Another way to troll random 4chan users. Expecting "install gentoo","remove kebab" and worse.

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Post by jmarbach » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:14 PM UTC

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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Post by kybernetyk » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

Some days ago I saw an ad for DuckDuckGo on 4chan and found it pretty funny. A squirrel was searching for "traps", "clop clop", etc. and the duck anonymized the search.

If the add was really made by the DDG guys they earned some respect from me for having a sense of humor.

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Post by mtct » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

>or just for fun/to get a message in front of the 4chan community ("MODS=FAGS", promoting a board or thread/contest, etc)

I'll buy one for sure

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Post by pyre » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

jmarbach wrote: post #6

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.

Totally. 4chan really needs to start collecting user data so that they an cozy up to the NSA. It's really hard to get on good terms with them without any data for offer.

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Post by 1337biz » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #4

I like how we Hacker News users are brave enough to admit under very public profiles that we have, in fact, been to 4chan. EDIT: This post was not sarcastic or ironic. Though I do think /pol/ is a hive of neo-Nazi scum /flameproof-suit.

Always been there, always will be. One of the last beacon of a censor-free internet.