Possible advertisement changes

I learned a little while ago that the top advertising placement size is being phased out by Google, other networks and many advertisers. This probably explains some of the recent ad performance issues that I had attributed to mobile traffic this year.

As such, these placements will likely increase in size to one of the larger, popular formats. There are no new advertising placements. There will still be no advertisements other than banner ads. I continue to prohibit pop-up, pop-under, scrolling, interstitial and mouse-over advertisements as long as the forum costs are met.

Please also follow this link for other updates:

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=20767

Update:

I have also made some adjustments on which specific ad placements are removed for various usergroups.

For example, unregistered visitors see all advertising placements.

Fully registered and approved members no longer see the leaderboard wide banner under the forum listings on the homepage. They also do not see the wide leaderboard banner that is in the space between the second and third post of each thread.

Community Members no longer see the leaderboard under the thread listings in each forum.

Senior Community Members no longer see the leaderboard above the Quick Reply box in each thread.

CPS Gurus and moderators no longer see the two square banners at the very top of the forum.

Subscribers see almost no advertisements except the premier forum sponsor logos at the bottom of each page.

I am currently experimenting with leaderboard advertisements located in the banner above the quick reply box and the the two square banners within the second post of each thread. Some members may be seeing these ads who had not seen them before and this may change again depending on their performance.

There may be additional changes in the future, but there will probably not be any new placements or new types of ads at this time (pop ups, pop unders, scrolling, etc)

I don't mind the bigger ads at the top of the page but the one after the first post in every thread is HUGE and sort of annoying

Melizerd said:

I don't mind the bigger ads at the top of the page but the one after the first post in every thread is HUGE and sort of annoying

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They will probably disappear for senior community members again in a few days after some testing. See the new poll in the SCM forum;-)

As a "Thank You" for your patience during testing and changes, there will be upcoming giveaways that include a number of subscriptions as prizes, meaning the winners won't see any of these ads at all!