advertising gone wrong
It appears as though Wired has been running an experiment in their news feeds. Increasingly, I’ve found more and more graphical “Ads by Google” filling up their Wired Top Stories RSS feed. Ten days ago I tweeted the following:
Wired’s in-feed ads are getting so out of control, I had to zoom my browser out to capture this: http://bit.ly/bB0P2A
Comparing that to what I saw in Google Reader today, I’m not sure what to make of Wired’s strategy. This is hardly just distasteful advertising. It’s almost as though they want people to stop following their news feeds. I guess I’ll have to comply with their wishes.
May 10, 2010 at 2:06 pm