Posted on April 12, 2008 - by Steven Finch | Visited 188 times, 2 so far today

Mashable: Is There Too Much Advertising?

Mashable is one of the worlds largest technology based blogs, and they are obviously in the same market as us but there is now way at the moment they are our competitors. Anyways, that all being said I have noticed some big changes over at Mashable. Pete now seems to have a lot of fulltime staff writing for him, and how does he pay their wages, advertising! Mashable at the moment seems to have more advertising than ever before and also more advertising an any other blog in the tech market.

In the left column on the Mashable front page there is currently 6 ad units and in the right 4, but they have just open up another section in the right column for another 6 units. Thus bringing the advertising space totally to 16 adveritsing spaces on the front page alone. Is this amount of advertising over the top? Do the readers actually care about the amount of advertising? Do they even notice?

I think advertising is ok if it doesnt actually seem like advertising. If the website had a right side that was sponsored, but only allowed companies to sponsor if they were actually tech products that are worth using. This is what im hoping to achieve with Crenk one day, well when I actually get a new theme done.

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