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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. Come on Slashdotters ! by tmark · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm holding my breath waiting for the first post to detail how we can circumvent their super-advertisements. I'm guessing the odds are about even that we see a post before I turn blue.

  2. Knee jerk by mao+che+minh · · Score: 2, Redundant
    See the one "Flamebait" mod-down that I got almost immediately? This is an example of the knee-jerk reactions that I told you all about.

    My post did not show any favoratism for either liberal or traditional views - it merely exposed my opinion on why liberal media tends to fail. The post was, in itself, therefore liberal in nature. This said, the uneducated mod read my post, which caused some small spark to fire off in the subconcious of his tiny brain, and he quickly clicked on "Flamebait". I win by example. I am a prime time player. Troll mas fina baby.