TribalFusion

[Otis]

Originally Posted by Laodaron

I love that "HELLOOO!"

My parrot answers it.

[Faabio]

Really? Because my parrot bites my fingers and calls my name early in the morning and wakes me up

[Johnathon]

Originally Posted by Faabio

Really? Because my parrot bites my fingers and calls my name early in the morning and wakes me up

If you fed Laodaron a little more often he wouldn't do that

[Laodaron]

Oh we're clever are we?

[Niber]

Hahah, nice one.

[Traldan]

Out of curiosity, how well do the pop-"under"s pay?

After you guys moved to Tribal Fusion I took note of other sites using the advertising (Overclockers Forums - Powered by vBulletin) and they have no popups, and no really obnoxious ads (HELLLOOOOO :p). In fact, most of their ads are quite relevant.

Anyway, I suppose its just a matter of time as you iron out the kinks. Do you have much flexibility over which ads are served?

[Niber]

We have complete control of the advertisements offered to us. Right now we're serving all the available advertisements and still have periods of time where no ads are available. Popunders/ups pay about 60% (I'm estimating) of our revenue. So not having them isn't really a possibility.

Most of the more annoying adds, such as the "Hello" one don't pay much but our hosting costs are quite high and we need every penny. Hopefully after we establish a track record with the two agencies (advertising.com and TF.com) they will offer us more ads / higher quality ads and then we can be more selective.

Also, I noticed Overclockers has about 30% of its ads from "ad council" --those are free advertisements they're not being paid for. A luxury I wish we could afford.