Yahoo needs all the revenue help it can get these days, which is why it’s odd that subsidiary Flickr hasn’t been serving ads properly for a day or so and apparently no one at the company has noticed. A reader writes in to point out that if you click on any of the ads that appear on the site when you do a search (try this one for Apple), the user sees the linked page in an iframe instead of being taken to the advertisers site.
That’s handy, because the advertiser is charged but the user never leaves the Flickr site (something only Facebook seems able to pull off). My guess is this is fixed by morning.
What a boo boo !
DOWN WITH THE KING!
Still not fixed!
You’re purposely trying to make sites selling Apple products pay to get useless hits, right?
I don’t get the title “Flickr Solves Pesky Issue Of Users Leaving Site When They Click Ads”
It is still not solved, eh?
Mike
I have to say that is just messed up in more than one way. First, it just looks bad from the users point. Second, if I was paying good money for placement and my site showed up like that I would not be a happy advertiser. Third, it is just plain messed up. I can’t say that enough.
Waaaa!
This is so cool, but it will be interesting how this AJAX flaw will be explained during the meeting
Will they give blanket compensation to all Advertisers who were clicked?
Good for Yahoo!’s best brand.
that’s not solving anything. advertisers must pay at least $0.50 to get on top for that keyword “Apple”.. ..and won’t get their page load properly? man…and now thanks to TC, many advertisers (including me) will move to Adwords.
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This is a great post. now people will be curious enough to go to flickr and click on the ads. This will mean more revenue for Yahoo!
whoops wonder how long thats been going on.
This is fixed now….. I’m still wondering how these things can happen.
I’m still seeing it both in Firefox and Chrome.
it’s fixed? i don’t think so
I wonder, how much did they earn just from the people going there after reading this and clicking on advertisement
the whole time i didn’t see anything, then i remembered I use adblock.
You are an unique snowflake. Go fly, fly away cease!
I must have clicked 20-30 sites waiting for the iframe to appear, but it never did. I guess this doesn’t matter for Flickr. Their source of revenue is premium membership.
HAI, am I the only white person to point out a spelling error this morning, “premire”?
You refer to Stuff White People Like #99?
http://stuffwhi.../12/99-grammar/
No I’m not being racialist. I’m shouting out Stuff White People Like #99– Grammar. Of course.
http://stuffwhi.../12/99-grammar/
Not sure if that only works in windows, but on Firefox, on the Mac, the ads open on a new tab.
Also, this only works for guest visitors and maybe for non-pro users.
This also happens to Orkut and is like that for a long time
How many of us really click banner ads with the intention of buying something when we are in the middle of surfing a site having little or nothing to do with the ad? Most display ads if done well do their job of messaging the viewer with the ‘brand’. A click out of a webpage is normally not what the consumer wants anyway, so in my opinion an iframe is great and should cost the same amount of money as a regular click through.
hope they to fix it.