I thought MainStream had pulled ahead of us in terms of tech innovation.
 

It seems not - I just found a post on a mainstream webmaster forum selling an 'amazing new innovation' - What is it?

Geo Targeted Ads - The ones we have been using for YEARS.

The members of the forum are all wetting themselves over it as well.

Its nice to know we can still teach them a thing or two about marketing :thumbsup...

I hope you are not equating some morons on a wf or dp with the capabilities of mainstream.

you should offer to sell them all a crazy new site called 'groupon'

Grouporn sounds fun.. :upsidedow

I know the big guys have had it for a long time, but it seems to be virtually unknown to affiliates.

They even push it as 'copy what the adult sites are doing'.

Amazon is on the cutting edge of technologies.
For example they are using namespaces in the AWS SDK for PHP 2 and such cutting edge solutions as Composer and Guzzle to implement the quality standards that you would expect from the Empire

Oh I see:)

Pretty soon mainstream is going to find out that naked girls in ads help sales..

MainStream is a big and diverse category; silly to make sweeping generalizations like this :2 cents:

at least groupon and his clone could discover there is something like geo-target ads.......:error

Because you would never make sweeping statements based on some shit you read on the internet !

Your the biggest tool on here since the demise of Johnnyclips. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm pretty sure you're hanging around the wrong mainstream webmaster forums if that's news to someone. :1orglaugh I work mainly in mainstream nowdays and geotargeting is a given, ALL ads are geo targeted or atleast language targeted. Then again I work in europe, I presume there's not so much need for geo-targeting in the us/english speaking markets.

Retargeting, interest based targeting and various different dynamically created ads are some things we don't see in adult but which are every day life in mainstream.

I was talking about geo-targeted, dynamically generated ads - We have used them all over adult for years.

They defiantly seemed to be getting excited about it.

Edit: I cant post a link as it is a forum and Theo will get grumpy.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Caught the idiot out at his own game.

By dynamically created, I don't mean changing the text of the ad based on where you're from but. More like retail store-ads showing you the things you've already placed in your basket and then giving you a discount if you didn't buy them and left the store etc. :)

"some shit you read on the internet" = Sweeping Statement about all my meticulous research

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

NewNick "Your the biggest tool on here since the demise of Johnnyclips."

Are you another one of this GFY Mod/Troll guy's fake nicks? I had never clocked you before, I'll need to check through your past posts and threads to see. :upsidedow

Those are irritating - I looked at a cooker hood on appliances.com months ago and bought it - Now all I get from Google are ads for this fucking cooker hood on that site - I feel like emailing them and telling them I bought it already!!

Well, that's a bad execution. Retargeting should always stop when the advertiser sees the client purchased an item (OR they should start advertising you different pots and pans of the same set) ;)

Apple is a mainstream business. They are pretty innovative. Mainstream has been doing geo for years. Might just be that board.

Geo isn't anything remotly new anywhere. This guy is a moron, and you lack judgement.

Depends... I use Retargeting for brand awareness. My clients use my services every couple months, there are 20 other compagnies offering similar services. I make sure they remember me.

You saw a post on an unknown mainstream webmaster board and you just assume that no one in mainstream has been using geo targeted ads for years? Um.... Someone in mainstream has figured out that I loved Hawaii and every day I see dozens of ads for it, so I am guessing they know what they are doing.

Hell, even Blackberry has grown up and finally lost the buttons.

All the time that adult webmasters and the porn industry are busy playing around with gadgets and other assorted pieces of technological garbage.... The mainstream entertainment industry pulled ahead in the only sector that actually matters.

Making money.

When you look at the money men, bankers and other high power investors; you discouver real fast that they tend to approach technology investures like a potential influenza pandemic.

When Hollywood was busy complaining about VHS casettes and possible piracy issues...

The porn industry was busy closing its cinemas.

When Hollywood was lobbying gouvernements to attack Kim Dotcom...

The porn industry was placing ads on the pirate bay.

When Hollywood was developing 3D films to combat online streaming...

The porn industry was crying about Tube sites killing business and desperately uploading entire films to make 1 sale per 10k

Personally I hardly classify an over priced cell phone that when compared to my old land line is almost inaudable. Its greatest freatures are a pathetic excuse for a camera, access to facebook, (where I only get trolled for cyber sex) and GPS (despite the fact that I can read a map)

If you ask me and I understand that no one has.
The only ones making money from this so called technicological innovation are the big peddlers of this modern day "gadget-crack" and the chineese.

In short there is no such thing as progress or innovation in this world unless solves problems of poverty, enviromental disaster and illiteracy. Quite frankly comparing the last 50 years to today; Humanity and society are in a state of de-evolution. Just look at how completely inept and unskilled today's youth are. History will most undoubtely record them as the I-generation. The * I * being short for Idiot :2 cents:

Hey it was a huge thread and on WarriorForum - See it for yourself - http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...erfect-fa.html

Sorry Mods I had to post it, Rochard made me :upsidedow...

the people who know whats actually going on are generally not on low level webmaster forums, so this doesnt suprise me that something so old is new to them.

for the record... the things high end mainstream companies are doing blows almost everything adult is doing, as a whole, right out of the water. they are still making money and moving up, we are stuck trying to make ends meet again, after training the entire world that our product should be free.

If we assume GFY is a 'High End' adult forum :Oh crap - What would be a good place to learn what is really happening in MainStream?

generally blogs.

GFY, high end? high on bullshit content, low on anything useful. used to be different. :(

You will find that not most but all of the high end mainstream companies take a very conservative and orthodox approach to the conception and marketing of their product. (product = films)

They are NOT playing around with all kinds of gadgets and other crap. The only area they are using these techno-toys is in the actual production/creation of their product. And in production they use it to lower manufacturing costs, enhance the viewer experience with special effects and finally as a tactical weapon tool of marketing against Internet downloads. (ie. the tactical weapon of marketing is providing something you can only get in an actual theater)

So in case you have not figure it out yet.

Your *value* will only last until the day somone invents a techno-gadget that can push its own buttons.... And at that point it will be game over.

The only thing you will have left is your skills.... And if your only skills are pushing buttons.

You are fucked and you kiss your ass good-bye.

U no like PBBC crew? Their developers keep on the edge of the technology.

Let them know about mobile redirects. They're gonna shit their pants.

warriorforum.... all you need to know

and yes mainstream is ahead of adult in targeting and tracking

Blogs, news, linkedIn groups/news relevant to your interests, twitter, etc.
Seminars/webinars etc
Depends on your interests. No point in attending Real time bidding webinars if you are interested in rich media takeovers or affiliate marketing. :)