Tell The Team: Banner Ads!

[Tolero]

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-------------------------- Let's Get Started! --------------------------

This week's question involves the topic of advertising!

Question: What are three websites you visit that you would like to see DDO banner ads appear on, and why?

Optional Question: Don't have any sites you visit regularly? Then what are three websites you'd like to see DDO banner ads appear on, whether you visit or not!

[Lerincho]

Gamespy.com - What game site has more information?
ESPN.go.com - because it's ESPN, they do Madden Nation after all.
Comingsoon.net - these people have nothing better to do than talk about movies all day long, might as well get them hooked on computer games too.

[Lifespawn]

**** second

G4tv.com
Gamespy.com
MMORPG.com

[ArkoHighStar]

massively.com
mmorpg.com
tentonhammer.com

[Lerincho]

first? have to think about it

too slow, you weren't first

[jboyd158]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome
http://www.thelordoftheringsonline.com/ (I can't resist)
http://www.ign.com/

[Bilger]

mmorpg.com
tentonhammer.com
not sure on third maybe ign or gamespot one the bigger sites for games out there.

[kinar]

www.lotr.com <- if we had half the playerbase they did, we might get some funding.

As for 2 and 3, might as well attack where it counts...although I don't even know if these sites have banner adds

www.worldofwar.net
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/

[RavenStormclaw]

Google because the whole world goes there

[Lerincho]

Google because the whole world goes there

nopers i'm a yahooian.

[Korvek]

Only one that comes to mind is nuklearpower.com

It hosts 8-bit theater and a couple other webcomics, so it might be able to pull in a few people. Also, any time spent featuring a DDO banner ad is time spent not featuring banner ads for other games, which it does frequently.

[BattleCircle]

nopers i'm a yahooian.

shouldn't that be Yahooligan?

[Wrustle]

Yahoo.com

Gamespy.com

Mmorpg.com

[Gratch]

www.penny-arcade.com
www.xkcd.com
www.espn.com

I don't visit WotC much as their site is a travesty of finding what you want but a banner ad there would be welcome.
Oh.. and since we invaded their community - maybe a banner at www.escapistmagazine.com

[Zoetic]

www.fark.com - great visibility to geeks
www.giantitp.com - Order of the Stick rules
www.cnn.com - the whole world is watching

[moonprophet]

....do not put any banner ads on ddo.com.

[SpanishBlueEyes]

aol.com
pogo.com
myspace.com
facebook.com
hover.com
turbine.com

[Arianrhod]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome
http://www.thelordoftheringsonline.com/ (I can't resist)
http://www.ign.com/

I'd agree with Wizards (for the D&D players), & IGN (for the MMORPG players), but not LOTRO....for one thing, Turbine can just put something in the news updates, or add a spot on the site to mention "check out DDO too"; they don't need to advertise on their own site

For the third one, let's see...got the D&D crowd with Wizards, the MMORPG crowd with IGN (or MMORPG.com, or some such site)...how about targeting some of the FPS crowd? Don't know what their sites are called, though. Someone else would have to suggest one.

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

My top 3 choices:

wizards.com - attract the pnp players
mmorpg.com - attract mmo gamers
escapist.com - attract normal gamers, and play the 'we won the competition' angle.

if I had more than 3 I would also add:

massively.com
tentonhammer.com
gamespot.com

but wouldn't it be better to buy keywords on google ads? Those are everywhere! Suggested keywords to buy:

mmorpg
dnd

Garth

[Big-Dex]

www.haveyouseenthismod.com

www.lost.com

www.comingsoon(tm).com

Sorry... couldn't resist. Besides ... it does seem like a question best asked once you get whatever issues you have that are keeping you silent on MOD9 squared away. Just sayin'...

Dex was here.

BTW - I would give a straight answer, but I don't know anything about advertising to answer in any beneficial way. I visit www.drudgereport.com and then go searching from there. So...