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Coding Horror: How Not to Advertise on the Internet
by Acidus at 11:07 am EDT, Jul 10, 2009

Apparently that ad didn't perform up to expectations at Evony world HQ, because the ads got progressively ... well, take a look for yourself. These are presented in chronological order of appearance on the internet.

With infinite eyeballs, all content on the Web approaches porn to gain attention.

RE: Coding Horror: How Not to Advertise on the Internet
by Dagmar at 4:18 am EDT, Jul 13, 2009

Acidus wrote:
Apparently that ad didn't perform up to expectations at Evony world HQ, because the ads got progressively ... well, take a look for yourself. These are presented in chronological order of appearance on the internet.
With infinite eyeballs, all content on the Web approaches porn to gain attention.

I don't know if the final ad is a fake or not, but tesnexus's ad banner people don't have a problem with handing out a fishy PDF file every once in awhile.

Joy.