Comments on: Snap To Launch Snap Shots Ad Network

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:35:45 +0000

errr… am I the only won who thinks this is sorta cool? If I have a blog entry with a link to a youtube video, I don’t want people leaving my site… this keeps them there and posts ads.

I am looking to implement a contextual advert program soon, does this really turn you off THAT much? i was also looking at vibrant and kontera… thoughts?

By: honestforum.com

honestforum.com — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:33:14 +0000

Snap ads are probably my least favorite part of reading techcrunch.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:43:30 +0000

Mike – I’m not sure I follow.

Lets say I install it on my computer (extension). You are counting me as a user. Are you telling me I will only view 7 pages during the course of a day? Or that the average website only averages 7 pageviews a day? (as I assume each pageview loads up Snap and constitutes a ‘hit’)

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:33:27 +0000

@ 4 / AhmedF: A ratio of 15 million views to 2 million users (or about 7 to 1) may seem low but it is actually better than many of the blogging platforms which are about at 3 page views per visit. Check out compete.com

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:31:30 +0000

Great, just what we need, more ad popups…

No offense, but I hate you. I’d probably even rate you on my list of most hated people/things. Probably below Hitler, but definitely above carnies.

Let’s be honest here: over 90% of those 15 million daily uses are people like me accidentally clicking on them when trying to get back to a page.

By: nick of cebu

nick of cebu — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:53:09 +0000

Reading these comments, I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates Snap. It seems people love every new widget they can get their hands on, no matter how much unnecessary crawling it does, how much extra bandwidth it eats up, or how long it slows down a site.

@ Tom

You guys obviously have incredible implementation and execution skills. I wish you could find something to do that’s more useful and less annoying.

By: Tech Soapbox

Tech Soapbox — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:42:48 +0000

Odd numbers for Snap ……

So I read that Snap is going to be monetizing their (annoying) website preview pop-up.
What caught me eye was the following (emphasis added):
Snap.com has over 2,000,000 Web site operators, bloggers and individual Web surfers currently using Snap Shots…

By: bob cobb

bob cobb — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:37:15 +0000

Look forward to that Tom, thanks for addressing it

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:15:09 +0000

Thanks for the post Duncan. With the launch of contextual ads the questions of “what’s in it for the blogger / publisher?” are very appropriate. We plan to share advertising impressions with the websites that use Snap so that we are “in it together”. Snap will be releasing more information on this very soon (hours).

Thanks

By: Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:06 +0000

If you don’t have Snap on your site then it really does not matter if they have ads or not, does it?

I agree with #13.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:57:05 +0000

I think its a good idea as long as they make it so that the bloggers make some money out of this.

By: imma

imma — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:18:35 +0000

i find the snap ads very annoying, so have turned them off

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:32:39 +0000

Too late! We have taken over ads!
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com
We are ‘hell-bent’ on succeeding in ads …
We just had our FAD (Financial Analysts Day) in Redmond, Wash; and what a FAD we had!
I threw out a couple of crowd pleasing zingers, like I tend to do and the crowd of employees went crazy!

Doing my patented “preacher karate chop” in the air, I whipped arround and screamed:”We are hell-bent and determined to allocate the talent! the resources! the money! the innovation to absolutely become a powerhouse in the ad business! Say yeeees!”
Ray Ozzie and Bill did a little dance in the aisle.

I then did a linebacker stance and exclaimed:
“We are tackling disruptive technology changes head-on, namely the shift to advertising-supported Web services!” Then I stomped on a styrofoam Google logo!
The crowd was going ape!

I wound it up with the old pep-rally arm wave while chanting:
“We are going to be an advertising com-pa-ny,
and we are going to be a devices com-pa-ny!”
The whole crowd joined in;
“We are going to be an advertising com-pa-ny,
and we are going to be a devices com-pa-ny!”
“We are going to be an advertising com-pa-ny,
and we are going to be a devices com-pa-ny!”
“We are going to be an advertising com-pa-ny,
and we are going to be a devices com-pa-ny!”

I did my running skip (high fiving everyone) off stage …..
Whew! That was some FAD!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:58:51 +0000

@8 I see what you mean.. dont want visitors coming to your site only do be see another ad :S

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:06:27 +0000

http://snapsucks.org/

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:22:11 +0000

I was wondering how Snap was planning to make money…anyways, I am removing Snap from my site because of this, the last thing I want is to have my visitors see some ads.

By: Stephen Lev

Stephen Lev — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:18:30 +0000

I absolutely loath Snap. I went as so far to block it on my router. It’s absolutely useless.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:44:42 +0000

Is it going to be $/View or $/Click… If it is going to Pay per click, i also dont see the possibility of the success of this scheme…

By: techguy

techguy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:24:50 +0000

I bet click through rates will be horrible.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:20:08 +0000

I’m confused – the language makes it sound that 2 million active users (be it users or websites). And yet it only generates 15 million views a day? That seems excessively low.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:19:53 +0000

Makes me thinks Snap Shots are an even worse idea than I though before.
Could it be btw that Snap does some kind of IP-tracking to see if a visitor is US based? Because in the example Snap enabled link I didn’t see an ad.

By: EH

EH — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:06:36 +0000

They should come up with some type of revenue sharing for website users who have to clear the ads while reading the page.

By: bob cobb

bob cobb — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:47:42 +0000

They should come up with some type of revenue sharing for website owners who use their service