The Era of Paid Banner Ads Has Begun

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Not that it should matter one way or the other, but for those concerned about the content of the board changing once there were paid banner ads on it, it appears that era has begun. If this is not true, Leon, please correct as appropriate.

I only assume this because it looks like the free banner ads have been taken down, correct? Thanks for allowing the freebies for a while. It was good while it lasted. I can't say for sure, but probably speak for the others in addition to myself when I express gratitude for putting those on the site for the past month. I think most understand this board reaches a larger number of collectors than we might first think.

I really don't think there's been a negative impact on the board as a result of the free banner ads and don't think that will change now that they're paid for. In fact, I actually think the site looks better with them on it and wouldn't mind if they were a tad larger.

For those who are curious, in a 10-minute experiment of hitting reload over and over here are the results, which is also presumably a list of paying advertisers, listed in order of which ads came up the most:

Man on The Rock: 27
Sotheby's/SCP: 24
Mile High: 19
Huggins & Scott: 19
Goodwin: 19
Mastronet: 18
GAI: 18
SCGaynor: 14
SGC: 12

Those numbers are totally random and would probably be very different in any 10-minute period.

Thanks again Leon and Brian,

-Ryan