Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)

Re:Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) by URSpider94 on Saturday September 26, 2020 @02:14PM (#24600878)

Twenty years ago, every self-respecting middle class household within a 50-mile radius of your newsroom subscribed to your paper from adulthood until death. Unless you lived in a major city like NY or Chicago, you likely had no competition for subscribers. And, every business in that radius bought ads in your paper.

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Re:Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) by Nextgrid on Saturday September 26, 2020 @02:33PM (#24601039)

The ads had some kind of human review so scams and Taboola/Outbrain weren't a thing and people trusted them which was a win-win for both the consumer, the newspaper and the advertiser.

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Re:Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) by URSpider94 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:01PM (#24653371)

Have you ever perused the ads in the back sections of old newspapers and magazines? There was all kinds of crazy stuff. I remember getting Boy's Life, the Boy Scout magazine, and there was an ad every single month for x-ray glasses. Do you think they worked??

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