Comments on: Google Expands Print Ads Program, Non-Americans Not Wanted

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By: Digital Marketing Blog | Cybercom, The Digital Marketing People » Blog Archive » Google to revolutionize television ad buying

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:46:39 +0000

[...] with their print ads inititative, Google has been conducting a private beta for it’s new TV ad brokering exchange, and soon will [...]

By: Business 2.0 Becomes Net’s latest casualty…Where does it end?

Business 2.0 Becomes Net’s latest casualty…Where does it end? — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:20:30 +0000

[...] telling that only days after the Business 2.0 announcement, Google announced that they are expanding their print ad network to include 225 newspapers in the United States. The fact is that much of the revenue newspapers [...]

By: Kudos

Kudos — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:06:43 +0000

I think the answer is that placing “print ads” is more complicated and more labour intensive than you might think, In some countries the agency has to provide proof that the ad was actually published, on the correct date.

Google might just be about to turn the whole sedate “Print ads” industry upside down. Watch this space…

By: sickofit

sickofit — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:50:32 +0000

Do us all a favor and rent a server in the US so you can log in remotely, bypass geoip and stop winging.

By: Yodel

Yodel — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:32:03 +0000

Duncan, stop whining you annoying little turd.

Your posts suck and I have no idea why you are employed by TC.

By: Techticles

Techticles — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:13:34 +0000

If there isn’t a law that prohibits it, maybe it’s a business operations move wherein they want to limit the number of advertisers and build their business processes from there (financial accounting perspective, account reps, stats, etc.).

Pilot roll-out strategy happens all the time.

By: Aidan Henry

Aidan Henry — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:42:15 +0000

I just love the whole concept of an online company moving into the offline world. Nowdays, we only usually see the opposite. It’s refreshing to know that the online world can facilitate life offline and change the way we live.

Cheers,
Aidan
http://www.MappingTheWeb.com

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:20:11 +0000

Perhaps this is just part of the roll out process and others will eventually be able to participate. Need Custom Software Development?

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:16:18 +0000

Michael
last paragraph only and yes, I sent an email to Google asking them that very question, if I get a response (and hardly anyone ever gets a response from Google, or if they do it takes weeks) I’ll run it. As for brushing off Andy’s comment: it’s one thing to criticize the content, it’s another to call on me to stop writing for TechCrunch. I’m always happy to engage in constructive debate, however if people want to personalize it by attacking me because they are unable to put together a decent argument without sinking to that level, I’ve got no interest in playing nice in return.

Bob
my thoughts exactly, and all the Adwords ads I run are charged in US dollars as well. The even more stupid thing is that its “American based”; what if you’re an American in Toronto or Vancouver marketing exclusively to the US market, why should you be excluded, particularly if your money is as good as someone just across the border and you already have an Adwords account?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:31:36 +0000

Wouldn’t the value-added for the post be if you were to find out the answer to your question and tell us?

The headline and half the body of text including the concluding statement was about the non-American angle, so I don’t think it is accurate to beg off Andy and Andrew’s criticism.

By: Bob Jones

Bob Jones — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:27:42 +0000

It makes little sense … I run a website from the UK, maybe I want to get some American Newspaper Readers to my site? I have the money and an Adwords account … why not?

By: whoopee

whoopee — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:36:05 +0000

what is it that keeps the newspapers alive? they get their copy from reuters, their ads from google/yahoo…what do they have left? the obit page?

stick a fork in this industry

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:31:26 +0000

As sickanimations notes,
the non-American part wasn’t the entire point of the post, but given that our entire reader base isn’t Amercian it’s a point that was worth throwing in, particularly given that Google usually is the most globally inclusive company with their offerings (don’t even start me on how bad Yahoo is )

By: Suray - Suray's Words - SurayBlog

Suray - Suray's Words - SurayBlog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:25:57 +0000

There is always a tricky way to boost income!

By: sickanimations

sickanimations — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:06:40 +0000

Jesus, Andy! The whole post wasn’t just about the US-only aspect of the service. Relax mate.

Nice post, interesting to see their traditional marketing exposure going up like 400%…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:06:37 +0000

I agree with the point above.

By: Andy Schweig

Andy Schweig — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:00:43 +0000

what a waste of a post. I could think of any number of reasons why they may not want to allow international customers to participate immediately. You should stop writing for TechCrunch — it really is bringing down the entire blog in quality.

By: numa

numa — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:53:44 +0000

Fourth post

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:42:12 +0000

when your buyers and sellers are 99% Us ; its ok.

– I wont be mad that I cant by space in a uk paper when it happends

By: gilltots

gilltots — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:41:56 +0000

maybe because Australia is a former penal colony?

no offense to you penal-spawn down there. tee hee

By: K.Y.S

K.Y.S — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:26:30 +0000

it’s all about national security