Discussion on addition of advertising to the site.
30-Aug-13 11:17
Hi All,
I just wanted to make a statement about the new ads we are running. I have a few things to say so I will do it in bullet form.
* Not a light-hearted Move - We have run ad pretty much ad-free for over 10 years so we didn't make the decision to run these ads lightly.
* Market has changed - The market has significantly changed, with the global recession and competition from other niches like Facebook and YouTube pushing our premium member volume and revenue down.
* To Everyone's benefit - With less revenue we have had to carefully balance spending on fresh traffic to the site along with rolling out new infrastructure and development. Costs have been increasing for advertising in the adult industry (for us to buy traffic), and having these ads will mean we can offset the lower revenues and invest more in the site and its growth.
* Premiums don't see them - while it isn't our aim to make you go so crazy with seeing the ads that you are compelled to go premium - there is no denying it is now an added benefit to going premium!
* Ad Quality - We are testing this ad network, so as we work with our advertising partner we will be able to improve the quality of ads.
* Don't Try Hide Them - In these early days we need to have good results from our ads, so that we can attract more premium ads not just the bottom of the barrel ones like you are seeing now. Please click the ads, look at what they are offering so that we are showing good results. Trying to hide the ads only hurts us and therefore your NN experience.
*Click the ads - As I said above, the quality of the ads we see in future will be driven by the performance they show in these early days. Please, click a few of the ads and review what they are offering.
* Removing them with Nudles - We are considering offering the option to remove the ads with a Nudle Payment
Please, understand that this was a necessary step to take and one we didn't take lightly. We are working hard to always improve this place and we have a large update which will be revealed soon. We are investing in better network infrastructure too to make sure the site preforms better (noticed faster vids lately?)and we have more drive than ever to keep this site the #1 adult community on the net.
We have oh-so-many new features we want to roll out, and with the help of the additional revenue from advertising, we will hopefully be able to increase our resources to be able to implement all the things we have in the pipeline that we know will make this an even better place than it has been for the last 10 years.
I look forward to your views and discussing them here.
NN
P.S - I want to keep this thread on topic so any off-topic replies will be removed.
I just wanted to make a statement about the new ads we are running. I have a few things to say so I will do it in bullet form.
* Not a light-hearted Move - We have run ad pretty much ad-free for over 10 years so we didn't make the decision to run these ads lightly.
* Market has changed - The market has significantly changed, with the global recession and competition from other niches like Facebook and YouTube pushing our premium member volume and revenue down.
* To Everyone's benefit - With less revenue we have had to carefully balance spending on fresh traffic to the site along with rolling out new infrastructure and development. Costs have been increasing for advertising in the adult industry (for us to buy traffic), and having these ads will mean we can offset the lower revenues and invest more in the site and its growth.
* Premiums don't see them - while it isn't our aim to make you go so crazy with seeing the ads that you are compelled to go premium - there is no denying it is now an added benefit to going premium!
* Ad Quality - We are testing this ad network, so as we work with our advertising partner we will be able to improve the quality of ads.
* Don't Try Hide Them - In these early days we need to have good results from our ads, so that we can attract more premium ads not just the bottom of the barrel ones like you are seeing now. Please click the ads, look at what they are offering so that we are showing good results. Trying to hide the ads only hurts us and therefore your NN experience.
*Click the ads - As I said above, the quality of the ads we see in future will be driven by the performance they show in these early days. Please, click a few of the ads and review what they are offering.
* Removing them with Nudles - We are considering offering the option to remove the ads with a Nudle Payment
Please, understand that this was a necessary step to take and one we didn't take lightly. We are working hard to always improve this place and we have a large update which will be revealed soon. We are investing in better network infrastructure too to make sure the site preforms better (noticed faster vids lately?)and we have more drive than ever to keep this site the #1 adult community on the net.
We have oh-so-many new features we want to roll out, and with the help of the additional revenue from advertising, we will hopefully be able to increase our resources to be able to implement all the things we have in the pipeline that we know will make this an even better place than it has been for the last 10 years.
I look forward to your views and discussing them here.
NN
P.S - I want to keep this thread on topic so any off-topic replies will be removed.
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