Onion Ads
July 21, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Squirrels
Every six months or so I get on an Onion kick. Today must be 6 months. So I goto www.TheOnion.com, they unleash a full page ad, for a Pinky & The Brain movie. I love that cartoon and will probably rent the movie when it comes out on video, but I don’t care for this type of advertisement. Things must be going down hill for them, bandwidth costs too high perhaps.
I clicked on the link because they no doubt get paid for the click thru. I felt for them.
The page loads, Firefox blocks a popup and I see two more, flash animated, banner ads for the same thing load around some meager content. I’m going to go ahead and just wait another six months to see if things get better for them.
This link (from the waybackmachine) is of the onion from 2000, it’s more of what I was expecting.
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You don’t know how far downhill. According to this little nugget from Time, they are soon to be part of the Viacom empire: http://time.blogs.com/tuned_in/2006/07/fakenews_synerg.html?promoid=rss_tuned_in
So very sad.