Web Hosting Talk : Other Forums : WHT Announcements, Feedback and Questions : The new site5 banner [merged]

[Lynks]

The inet toolbar is bad enough but another one with ads? Is this a joke?

[akashik]

I don't usually care too much about ads here but I tend to agree there - pretty woeful.

It won't really matter though, as I doubt it's going anywhere.

[westcan]

Yes, and it's so very original too.

[ub3r]

but it's super!

i mean.. it'd be one thing if it were just normalhosting.. that's totally useless. But This is SuperHosting.. that's a whole new type of awesome.

[AussieHosts]

Originally posted by Lynks
Is this a joke?

I doubt it. It's more likely an attempt to create more awareness, and to prompt more discussion, about Site5. It has obviously worked, so mission achieved.

Gary

[hellind2]

It is stealing the limelight from other banner.

Ain't Inet getting any complaints about this?

I believe the ads are paid by impressions.

[Cahl]

Originally posted by hellind2
It is stealing the limelight from other banner.

I agree. iNET have never responded very well to criticism about the banners they allow though. Even if it does basically overshadow every other ad currently running.

Ain't Inet getting any complaints about this?

Presumably. However.. don't expect their policy to change.

I believe the ads are paid by impressions.

Yes they are. $25 per 1k.

The sad part about it is the advertisers who are in rotation right now probably have no idea that their banner is being overshadowed by a garish red stripe with another company's name all over it.

R'gds
Dean

[datums]

The companies advertising on WHT should really raise the issue.
They are paying for the top spot, but they are not really the top stop with another banner . How much would it cost to have a banner on top of the current highest banner

[BF-Gary]

Will this be a new option from inet as I do not see it in my.iNET?

[IvialisJonathan]

I can't find it in my.INET also. I looked for it when I saw it. I can't even look at the top banner without my eyes automatically moving to the site5 one.

[whatever]

I HATE the banner... it doesn't fit on my monitor without horizontal scrolling.

[Jeremy Johnstone]

I can't find it in my.INET also.

Not everything that is for sale is in my.inet. Otherwise why would they need sales people?

Originally posted by whatever
I HATE the banner... it doesn't fit on my monitor without horizontal scrolling.

Buy a monitor which goes higher than 800x600 then maybe?

[Kimmikat]

The iBar should be retooled (like combining the drop-down menus into one and incorporate the banner in it so it would not look like it was jerry-rigged.

[nuthin]

Originally posted by whatever
it doesn't fit on my monitor without horizontal scrolling.

that's the only problem I see with it.

hopefully Inet will fix that soon.

[nuthin]

Originally posted by IvialisJonathan
I can't even look at the top banner without my eyes automatically moving to the site5 one.

I guess thats one of the reasons why Inet probably added in such an advertising option.

I'm sure we will hear more from a rep of Inet soon about new advertising options.