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Salon, Nearly No Money and Ultramercials

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-soon-to-a-tv-near-you dept.

Adam9 writes "As Salon fights for survival, they have introduced a new advertising program that allows you to receive a free 12 hour pass by clicking through about 10 seconds of advertisements. Currently, the advertisements are from Mercedes-Benz. According to the article, they've lost about $79.7 million from their start in 1995. They also have about 45,000 subscribers right now." Jamie also pointed out this article from the WSJ, as well as the words from Salon themselves about it.

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  1. Re:Most advertisers won't allow this... by p_trinli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...and if i had the money to buy a mercedes then the ad might have effected me.

    Might have affected you.