"I don't see the Olympics being much of a factor on Internet advertising."
Until the online Olympics audience becomes much bigger, advertisers will continue to spend their ad budgets on TV. Yet this audience won't grow in any meaningful way until some of the Olympic restrictions are lifted and sites are able to afford broadcast rights.
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"I don't see the Olympics being much of a factor on Internet advertising."
Until the online Olympics audience becomes much bigger, advertisers will continue to spend their ad budgets on TV. Yet this audience won't grow in any meaningful way until some of the Olympic restrictions are lifted and sites are able to afford broadcast rights.
now.... on http://www.supercomp.org/sc98/TechPapers/sc98_Full Abstracts/Challenger602 it says they received over 600 million hits during the 1998 olympics. What's up with that????
BTW, check out that site above because you linux folk will like their approach to mass distributed web serving...