Astute readers may have noticed a slight change in the AudioShocker over the weekend. No? Well, you clearly aren't reading enough, but I'll spell it out for you anyway. We finally started placing ads on the site. But wait, don't the sidebars, headers, and front page all the look the same? Yup, they do. We decided to start slow by implementing what I have coined the 'scrollpop' ad unit.
Every few comments, you will now see a line that says "AudioShocker Shoutouts!". If you mousewheel over it, or mouse through it, a small banner will reveal itself or 'pop' in. We aren't trying to be tricky, malicious, or intrusive. We just want to try out some revenue possibilities and hopefully cover our costs for the site. Here is a little demo:
AudioShocker Shoutouts!
Our first shoutout this month is for AudioShocker regular Ross Campbell's stellar Shadoweyes project. If you are interested in advertising on the site, please email us.
To my knowledge, we are really the only people doing this, and we're interested in your feedback. I coded the whole shebang myself over the weekend and consider it a personal triumph. (and I will cut you if you try to steal it or pass it off as your own!)
i like it neal! good stuff.
for what it's worth, here are the problems i know about:
-mousing through the target doesn't really work
-mousewheeling is pretty finicky, really a function of how mousewheel scrolling work.
-i can't arbitrarily run different creatives on different pages
-the ad container css is like 90% hardcoded and not terribly flexible to the creative inside it without me going back and recoding it
-and a million other things
So yeah, I'm working on that (eventually)
I did figure out how to (manually) configure multiple creatives per page. You may notice that we are now running ads for both Shadoweyes (mouseover + mousewheel creatives) and EOTU. Preloads/other cool things are on the horizon. I setup a test case (although now a wee bit out of date) at my Stout&Porter test site.
AudioShocker Shoutouts!
