An Abundance of Dyslexic Ads in Gmail
Posted on September 28th, 2007by Michael Gray in Google
Not sure which is more entertaining the dyslexic nature of the ads (coffee, moms and Stargate) or the huge list of ads at the end … holy crap what a great user experience …
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September 28th, 2007 at 11:51 am
That Coffee Exposed ad appears at the top of nearly every one of my messages. Maybe I write about coffee a lot, they have an enormous max CPC, or both. The kicker? I’ve never clicked it.
September 28th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
You may be leaving them up for observation… but if you want, you can get rid of the ads in GMail with the CustomizeGoogle FF extension.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I see the coffee ad on lots of my pages too, wasn’t sure why it was appearing.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Yo, I have been seeing that silly coffee ad in my gmail for months now, and have clicked on it just to see what kind of outfit is wasting so much money on Adwords.
Memo to CoffeeFool: If I’m looking at my automated reminder from netflix, about a movie that nothing to do with coffee, and i see you in the No. 1 spot, you are wasting a ton of money.
This kind of thing is the secret to google’s $500 share price… let amateurs buy ads.
September 29th, 2007 at 12:51 am
yes, i have seen it as well, but people invest the way they want, i think this is neat anyway
September 30th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
What is dyslexic about Coffee?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:58 am
Be honest don’t you want to know what’s behind those headlines, I clicked it. I suspect this is a result of unusually high CTRs in a content network program. All the ads are high impact as opposed to a typical content match ad headline. When reading email, it’s tough to get someone to follow a rabbit trail, with out a killer headline. With the potential high number of impressions, be curious to learn if they actually convert at a profit.
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
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