banner advertising

[Jonny250]

Firstly, just to say this is a fantastic website/forum and provides a brilliant community and opportunity to share our sports fo freediving and spearfishing.

With regard to the advertising on the site - the banners at the top in particular, these have been for excellent organisations like world vision and also for the SPOT emergency messenger, etc. and that fun game "travian" .
I just wonder whether it is appropriate to consider slighly more carefully who is allowed to advertise on the site - i feel that the "be naughty" dating advert is degrading to the excellence of this site and i am dissapointed when i see it at the top of the page. :naughty

just my 2p...

 

[trux]

I am afraid more control won't be possible, unless DB grows to a huge organization with many employees and can afford to manage their advertisement program alone. I mean selling the advertisement space to companies directly. Until then they have to rely on 3rd parties like Google Ads, or Tribal Fusion (in case of DB). Although you usually have certain level of control - you can for example ban specific URLs or keywords, and although the systems try to serve ads relevant to the content of the page, it is an automated system, and there is no way to make it perfect. So I am afraid you will continue seeing irrelevant ads. Well, unless you decide supporting DB with the inexpensive $9.95. In that case you won't get to see any ads at all

 

[foxfish]

Jonny I though you were a db subscriber? well worth the few quid it cost.

 

[Stephan Whelan]

Jonny,

As stated in other replies the advertising you see is not truly under our control. We outsource our advertising to a third party who sell direct advertising on the site as well as "remnant" campaigns that are part of our "spare" inventory.

The non-diving ads are sold as part of that "remnant" advertising space and provides a small income to help keep the site operating (as it isn't free).

We do offer a Supporter Scheme that allows members to support the site and not see any advertising.

Thanks!

 

[rbsub]

We do offer a Supporter Scheme that allows members to support the site and not see any advertising.

For your information (perhaps you don't know it):

If you don't post for a certain time you will get this message:
Hello rbsub it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?

- and beside of this notice you will see an advertising.

But anyway: With this message from me, I will not see any advertising for the next weeks.