Adland: the never-ending project
I bored all my friends talking about advertising all the time. I am obsessed with ads. I wanted to share ad knowledge with other ad geeks.
Charging for commercial access on Adland® - a short era
Adland had a paywall for some time. When the bandwidth for serving the commercials became too large of an expense for me, I devised a plan.
"Click on those who click on adland" - banner project from visiting domain names.
On April 22 in 2000 I sat down and wrote a little script that would pull out interesting names from my visitor traffic and then I would create banners with these names and link back to the visitor's official websites
Techdirt "Adland shuts down after web host complies with bullshit DMCA notice"
Techdirt notes that we're offline and write "Adland Shuts Down After Web Host Complies With Bullshit DMCA Notice" on Fri, Sep 27th 2019.
Adpulp: Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA”
David Burn did a proper interview here: "Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA” asking the questions that many others also wondered about, so I was happy to get to answer these publically.
SF Egotist: "Adland shut down over DMCA takedown"
The SF Egotist, another advertising blog that has been around for years reported on the demies of Adland here. "Adland shut down over DMCA takedown"
Bluebus; 'Adland' goes down for publicizing Bridgestone commercial - lawyer complained
There is one advertising website that has been around longer than Adland has, and it is the Brazilian BlueBus site that premiered in 1995, a whole year before us. They noted the death of Adland in this article here.
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