Comments on: Google Starts AdSense for Homeless http://brianrisk.com/google-starts-adsense-for-homeless/ Can it be? Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:50:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: guy who reads coasters http://brianrisk.com/google-starts-adsense-for-homeless/comment-page-1/#comment-4116 guy who reads coasters Fri, 09 May 2008 20:12:38 +0000 http://brianrisk.com/google-starts-adsense-for-homeless/#comment-4116 I was reading a coaster at a bar the other day. It was a Rolling Rock coaster and said something like, "To anyone who was offended by our recent ads, we sincerely apologize." These coasters had been here for quite awhile. Which made me think, first of all, that Rolling Rock must have done something really awful that I hadn't heard about. Note to self. Rolling Rock displays really offensive ads. And second, great guerilla marketing idea. There are a lot of bars who'll use stuff just because it's free. How much could it cost to make flimsy coasters? Or, if marketing isn't the goal, it would be kind of cool to simply apologize on behalf of someone for their really offensive ads. "To anyone who was offended by our recent ad depicting a puppy with a machine gun strafing an old lady and leaving her for dead in order to steal her purse, and also just for fun, and because we thought it was hilarious, Bank of America sincerely apologizes." If there's space: "Be assured that we have taken swift action to make sure this doesn't happen in the future, by firing a giant bazooka, followed by a flame thrower, and lastly a catapult, at our nationwide director of marketing. He is unlikely to recover." Speaking of ad real estate in establishments like that, I wonder if you could sneak a picture up on the wall, maybe with your logo in the background. There's so much junk on the wall some places I doubt anyone would notice. Of course, the downside is that there's so much junk on the wall some places I doubt anyone would notice. The Google ads on the homeless sign are a great idea except you forget the most obvious problem. The homeless guy could just click on the ads all day long while sitting there which would be unauthorized clicks and sponsors would drop out left and right. Sometimes I really wonder whether you think anything through at all, Brian. I was reading a coaster at a bar the other day. It was a Rolling Rock coaster and said something like, “To anyone who was offended by our recent ads, we sincerely apologize.” These coasters had been here for quite awhile. Which made me think, first of all, that Rolling Rock must have done something really awful that I hadn’t heard about. Note to self. Rolling Rock displays really offensive ads. And second, great guerilla marketing idea. There are a lot of bars who’ll use stuff just because it’s free. How much could it cost to make flimsy coasters?

Or, if marketing isn’t the goal, it would be kind of cool to simply apologize on behalf of someone for their really offensive ads.

“To anyone who was offended by our recent ad depicting a puppy with a machine gun strafing an old lady and leaving her for dead in order to steal her purse, and also just for fun, and because we thought it was hilarious, Bank of America sincerely apologizes.”

If there’s space: “Be assured that we have taken swift action to make sure this doesn’t happen in the future, by firing a giant bazooka, followed by a flame thrower, and lastly a catapult, at our nationwide director of marketing. He is unlikely to recover.”

Speaking of ad real estate in establishments like that, I wonder if you could sneak a picture up on the wall, maybe with your logo in the background. There’s so much junk on the wall some places I doubt anyone would notice. Of course, the downside is that there’s so much junk on the wall some places I doubt anyone would notice.

The Google ads on the homeless sign are a great idea except you forget the most obvious problem. The homeless guy could just click on the ads all day long while sitting there which would be unauthorized clicks and sponsors would drop out left and right. Sometimes I really wonder whether you think anything through at all, Brian.

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