eBay Ads Covering Embedded YouTube Videos

groupieblog · Member · Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 pm
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the blue Ebay ads on my site are gone

thanks MacManx and Jon from wordads.co
staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 30, 2013 at 8:13 pm
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You’re welcome!
dandelionsalad · Member · Apr 30, 2013 at 11:29 pm
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Um, the big blue banner ads are back on the videos again.

What is going on, please?
staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 30, 2013 at 11:33 pm
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Please give me a link to a specific post or page where they are appearing.
dandelionsalad · Member · Apr 30, 2013 at 11:37 pm
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All my new blog posts that have videos on them have the banner ads.

Noam Chomsky: Drones Come Home To Roost + Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars: Terror Begets Terror

This post has 5 videos and all 5 have the ads:

Who’s To blame As Hundreds Die In Bangladeshi Factory Collapse by Kathy Durkin + Cheap Clothes for Mass Deaths
dandelionsalad · Member · Apr 30, 2013 at 11:47 pm
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Even the older posts have ads on them. Here’s one from Feb:

Chris Hedges: NDAA: This Is The Final Battle Between The Restoration Of Due Process and The Imposition Of A Military State (updated)

One from Oct. 2012:

Sibel Edmonds: NATO, Turkey Seek Pretense For Attack On Syria

I’m quite disappointed. As I said before, it’s my job to make the posts look good, and these ads look tacky/junky.
staff-blorbo · Staff · May 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
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Ok, I’m not seeing those ads there.

Please take a screenshot of what you see and upload it via Media -> Add New so I can take a look.

Take a Screenshot
dandelionsalad · Member · May 1, 2013 at 12:16 am
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Thanks for helping us out, macmanx.

Here it is on my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorri37/8697592994/

I’ve checked countless posts and the ads are on all the videos.

The screenshot is from this post, the last video:

Who’s To blame As Hundreds Die In Bangladeshi Factory Collapse by Kathy Durkin + Cheap Clothes for Mass Deaths
groupieblog · Member · May 1, 2013 at 7:48 am
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Mine are are back too, I mean
http://groupieblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/wheelchair-groupie/
http://groupieblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/213-groupie-luv/
and more
The ads only show in the browsers:
Internet Explorer 8 (XP)
SRWare Iron

They were gone for a day,
I thought Jon from wordads fixed it
I’ll write them again
dandelionsalad · Member · May 1, 2013 at 9:13 am
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I’m still unsure why WordAds is involved as I am not signed up for that program.

The browser I’m using is Firefox. Are only some browsers showing the ads?
groupieblog · Member · May 1, 2013 at 9:57 am
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Now the blue Ebay ads are on all videos in all browsers

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx347/draponico/groupiebloghomepage-screenshot_zps2457f984.jpg
margaretsparrow · Member · May 1, 2013 at 3:33 pm
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As a long-time reader of Dandelion Salad, I witnessed the arrival of the eBay banners earlier this April and was glad to see them disappear this week. Today, they returned. To weigh in, these banners are distracting, cheapen the appearance of the media and feel like an intrusive form of advertising. I, too, am grateful for whatever efforts are being made to resolve this. My blog has been unaffected, perhaps because my last video was in a 2010 post. If it’s any help in untangling this issue, I use Firefox.
dandelionsalad · Member · May 1, 2013 at 5:28 pm
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Thanks so much for your unsolicited remarks, canarypapers.

The ads are indeed intrusive as they do not go away while viewing the video(s). They are also within the blog post so it appears that I and other bloggers are benefiting from these ads.

Again, hope to see them go away as soon as possible. Although the damage has already been done. This is not the way to receive new followers for one’s blog.
staff-blorbo · Staff · May 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm
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We’re discussing this with the advertiser now to see if any changes can be made.

Meanwhile, I’d just like to casually suggest that we do have a No Ads upgrade: http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/ad-free/

Just $30/year and you’ll never see an ad on your blog. :)

Otherwise, we do need to run the ads to “pay the bills” and keep the blogs free, but I do agree that these ads could be a bit better.
dandelionsalad · Member · May 1, 2013 at 7:32 pm
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Are you saying that these ads will continue on ALL of our video posts?

What happened to “occasionally” and only to those not logged into WordPress? These ads are on every post with a video, within our blog posts (intrusive) and are seen by logged in bloggers.

I had no problems with your ads before and do appreciate the free hosting.
staff-blorbo · Staff · May 1, 2013 at 8:28 pm
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Are you saying that these ads will continue on ALL of our video posts?

No, I mean literally, “we’re discussing this with the advertiser now to see if any changes can be made.” So, no definitive answer yet. It sounds like the advertiser can make them dismissible though, so they’ll function just like in-video ads from YouTube.
dandelionsalad · Member · May 1, 2013 at 8:43 pm
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Thanks for making that more clear.

What about the other questions I raised?
groupieblog · Member · May 1, 2013 at 9:01 pm
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Now the blue Ebay ads are even bigger because they have a cross next to them so that you can click them away. I still don’t agree. YouTube won’t like it either. And there is no relation what so ever between the rock songs on my video’s en Ebay. No one is gonna click the ad anyway.
staff-blorbo · Staff · May 1, 2013 at 9:40 pm
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These ads are on every post with a video, within our blog posts (intrusive) and are seen by logged in bloggers.

Generally, logged in viewers will not see the ads. However, bloggers in the WordAds program have the option to display ads to logged in viewers.
timethief · Member · May 1, 2013 at 9:47 pm
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staff-blorbo
I have a No-Ads upgrade on both blogs. Will that prevent this advertising or not?

If it won’t then I will delete every embedded youtube on both blogs and provide only links.

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