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FCP COW & ADS
I’ll open the first can of WORMS!
Everybody wants to make a Buck! which is great, but!Are there others who read the Cow to get their daily fix of FCP questions/answers & notice the ads on the left & right side of ever post you read.
These are great ads for products that work with Final Cut Pro or by themselves. Here is the kicker, at the top of the page there was this one little ad that bugs me the most & SHOULD NOT
be on the same page as anything to do with Final Cut Pro, it was (AVID: Immerse Yourself in Avid Liquid, Save a Bundle with Great Deals) It’s like reading a print ad for GM & half way
down the page there would be a photo of a Ford Mustang, it’s just Bad placement!Are there FCP ads on the Avid Forum?
Thanks
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6 Replies
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Yes, the same banners are on the AVID page, but if you notice, Apple is not running any FCP banner ads right now or any banners period. If they were, they’d be in the Avid forum.
Did you not notice the huge Adobe campaign a few months ago right after NAB pushing their suite of tools? It was all over this forum and every other forum I visited.
The Cow is free to everyone and that’s due to the tremendous support of their sponsors. Sponsors have learned that the way to reach the most people from one site is the Creative Cow. Avid, Adobe, Sony, Quantel, everybody can put their ads in this forum and I really don’t care because they’re supporting the Cow.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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As Walter said, it’s really because the same ads are everywhere on the site BUT…even if that were not the case, it makes more sense to advertise to the people who AREN’T using your product than to the ones you ARE.
If Avid spent money advertising to ONLY Avid users…well they’d be wasting their money.
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The bigger problem with the ads is errors with browsing. At times the sites hosting the ads are down or slow and the rest of the page doesn’t load. Usually pressing stop will display the forum sans ads. But many won’t figure that out and their browser just sits there waiting for the ad to load. With the huge number of ads on this site, it is more common that with other web sites. But alas they pay the bills I suppose!
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[Steve Denn] “It’s like reading a print ad for GM & half way
down the page there would be a photo of a Ford Mustang, it’s just Bad placement!”Firstly the FCP forum on the cow isn’t an add for FCP, it is a FREE resource for users and second as others have said why would avid bother putting an add on an avid forum. Stop complaining and be happy you dont have to pay for all the free tech support that is offered here on the cow!
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The saying used to be “there’s no free lunch” but since we’re on computers all day I guess it’s “there’s no free bag of cheetos and super caffeinated beverages.”
Besides, I think the COW consists of folks with realistic loyalties: if another company made better tools and/or at a lesser price, we’d be the first at the exhibition booth asking questions. Isn’t that how we ended up using Final Cut in the first place?
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Try installing an old browser that doesn’t link to flash player. If you have a pop-up blocker (you will get pop-ups enticing you to install flash) you should eliminate a lot of ads.
“everything is broken”
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