Let the good-humored competition begin.

Great, great analysis/feedback/questions….thanks!

We have spent a lot of time considering your concerns, as they were concerns for us as well. We’re confident that we have tailored a code that will promote substantive feedback beyond mere voting, and while I’d love to divulge some of our features, we’re skunk-working as much of our code as possible in order to protect the time and effort we have put into the project.

If you are interested in seeing what we’ll be offering, drop me a note and I’d be happy to see if we can extend some pre-beta invites to truly interested parties. Regardless, we’ve made the site as transparent as possible so once it is live, all your questions will be answered.

Thanks, though, for the great feedback. Whether or not you like the idea, I really do appreciate your willingness to spend your time offering your commentary.

Regards,

Bill Nones

Not to mention if I am a content producer why would I use this as a defining measure of efficacy? Say I post something to brandjury, everyone tells me it sucks. Thats a response of small subset of a defined target base which may or may not be who I am going after for a client so it i inconsequential to me anyway.

So in effect it becomes useless from the user standpoint (I’m subjecting myself to ads without anything in return) and from a producer standpoint ( I am getting nothing but a simple emotional response from an undefined demographic.)

Now if there is a large user base in a variety of demographics and you have managed to find a unique data binding path between users/responses and content) then its a whole different animal and could be useful. But thats a pretty big if given even the gorillas haven’t been able to do particularily well (but the goog is certainly trying)

I dig the name though.

Let me state, for the record, that no one associated with Brand Jury is posting under assumed names here. While I appreciate your willingness to participate in the conversation, I’d politely ask that you present hard evidence to back up your accusations before making them again.

If anyone from Brand Jury posts here, you will know by virtue of a clear admission of the fact. If you have reason to believe otherwise, present your evidence so that I can determine if, indeed, someone is using an assumed name.

Otherwise, I’d ask you to consider the not-so-remote possibility that there are people in this world with opinions different than yours. As hard as you may find it to believe, not everyone views Brand Jury in the same way that you do.

If you dislike us, I would greatly appreciate some substantive feedback. Let us know why you don’t like us, and let us see if there is a way that we can fix whatever you think is broken. But please refrain from hurling unfounded accusations around, it serves no purpose whatsoever.

Thanks,

Bill Nones

I agree. Thanks for the positive feedback!

Bill Nones

By using Brand Jury, you can have a direct impact on how the ads that you are forced to watch in the future are presented to you.

You currently have two options – suffer through the ads you already see, or take great lengths to avoid them. We are presenting a third option — tell the advertisers how they can better reach you.

Advertising is a fact of life, and you can’t avoid it. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a say in how it is executed. Just don’t expect advertisers to “lighten up” on their own accord.

Thanks,

Bill Nones

Dunno if you like to have your consumer activities dictated by images burned into your mind, but I know that I prefer to use a less biased and more informative approach when making purchases.

For people who like being told how to spend their money, I suppose Brand Jury has no utility. But for those who are unwilling to let advertising continue to infect every aspect of their lives in order to brainwash them, Brand Jury will allow them to talk back and let their voices be heard.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions…I’d like to hear them.

Thanks,

Bill Nones

You bring up a valid point, and trust me when I say it is something we’ve considered long and hard. Most of our reasoning and evidence is on our blog, and it would take up too much space to try and explain it here.

But please know that we’re not trying to trick anyone into anything; we are three guys without any ties to any advertisers, and our intent is to weave together consumers and advertisers so that they can collaborate on effective ads that don’t require pop-ups, interstitial or shill content tactics.

Let us know if there are any questions or concerns — we want the feedback!

Thanks for your feedback. Sorry you don’t like the site so far, but please keep in mind that we’re doing this without any third party funding. We’ve felt that using our money allows us to keep the spirit of the site (empowering consumers) without having to implement some sort of ulterior motive from a silent partner supporting us with money.

But please keep checking back, as we’ll be altering the site as more and more people get a good look at it. Negative feedback is important, as it lets us know how we can improve. And if you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to let us know.

Thanks,

Bill Nones

I remember there was an off-line version of this where folks physically go to a screening and rate, don’t think it ever took off.

looks like you are from brand jury and are upset someone is calling you guys out for a me-too startup

if you can’t understand something as simple as that, how did you figure out how to make posts here? do you just hear ‘net lingo and throw terms about randomly to look superior?

The first impression just strikes me that they are not very impressive.