Advertising on a Free Wireless Network?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @07:24AM from the anything-to-grab-those-eyeballs dept.

Mischievous0ne asks: "I had an idea yesterday, and I wanted to run it past the Slashdotcommunity. Would you use a honeypot (free wireless access point) that covered a large downtown area (3-4 blocks of restaurants, coffee bars, an iceskating rink, a small park, and general hangout) if you had to have a framed banner ad at the top of every page you visited while on the network? Do advertisers still pay for banner ads? Are banner ads, effective? I live in a college town in Indiana, and I know there are wireless users here, but the campus wireless network is severly limited. I'm also not sure how people would react to the banner ad space in exchange for free access."

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IMHO, ads suck by JThaddeus · 2002-09-17 07:43 · Score: 1, Redundant

To me, banner ads are like SPAM--they get on my nerves and I pay them no attention.

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