if directing the viewer to website and website display the content+ad, how does google take a cut?
Nearly every ad on the Internet that isn’t on Facebook is a Google ad. They take approximately 1/3 of the money the publisher makes on the ad. So, if Ford pays $1 per click on an ad shown on the Toronto Star, the Star gets $0.68 and Google gets $0.32. Also, Ford pays Google to show that ad because Google runs both the publisher and advertiser sides of the game.
And we all know how it’s not the “media” controlling ads, it’s the other way around
Sure, to some extent. But, the big, powerful news organizations used to have content that was in such high demand that they journalism staff was insulated from the ads side of things. It also used to be a point of honour among journalists and their editors that they were going to speak truth to power, even if it alienated some of their advertisers.
usually, asking in a specific gaming sub or discord about certain hardware gives you less biased feedbacks
I disagree, most communities become echo-chambers, certain hardware is popular, and certain hardware is “trash” and if you disagree you get downvoted or shouted down. It’s very rare when you can have an informed, balanced conversation about whether nVidia or AMD have the best card at a certain price point. At best you have fanbois for each side duking it out.
Anyhow, the point is that traditional media, media that actually hires people who went to journalism school, now has to compete with random bloggers, people who want to be influencers, people looking to be paid for their affiliate links, etc. Google and Facebook don’t care what you click on, as long as there’s a chance you’ll click on their ads. So, if they have to pay a link tax to link to traditional media companies, they’re happy just to link to the other stuff instead – or just to link to American news sites.
So, if Ford pays $1 per click on an ad shown on the Toronto Star
That’s the root cause no? why does it has to go through Google or Meta? If Ford paid google and Toronto Star give google ad space for ad revenue split, everything is in the contract. There is no law to prevent traditional media to have their own union ad organization right? Or at very least, Toronto can refuse and run their own ad space selling like old paper times. If say, Ford can’t do it the old way like on paper, why is that? Toronto Star don’t have enough technical people to handle online ad? don’t know how to do ad pricing and conversion tracking? don’t know how to do targeted ads? Those aren’t google’s fault, if traditional media wants to save money on upgrade their ad technology and backend, they will ended up forking money and purchase what others provided.
used to have content that was in such high demand
That’s also not google’s problem, it’s the industry’s problem. Like theaters/cable tv fighting for survival against streaming, brick and mortar fighting against Amazon, people only want to spend time or money on things they feel justified.
most communities become echo-chambers
If you go to nvidia community and ask what AMD card is better, then yeah, that’s sort of stupid. In my example, my question or intention is to ask directly in the game’s community. ie. if you ask which monitor might be best in “Home Theater” vs in “CS:GO” community, you would get totally different answer. Which is exactly what should happen for specific “review” for certain target audience. But we only get generic reviews that covers some talk points but not have actual feedbacks. So if I want to have best performance for say, Street Fighter, than I go ask in that community for best setup. Compare to spend hours and hours on review sites, you can quickly get a couple candidates for building/upgrading your PC/setup.
Lastly, say, if people go through say, fine art school, should we protect their job opportunity? Or people that have management degree they should get management jobs? Where are those shoe fixing/tailor made clothing jobs? The entire world is moving target, “used to be” is not a proper excuse to put a bad legislation that might actually back fire and damage the industry in the end.
There is no law to prevent traditional media to have their own union ad organization right?
No law, no. But, you understand how monopolies / duopolies / cartels work, right?
Toronto can refuse and run their own ad space selling like old paper times
No, the old times are gone.
Toronto Star don’t have enough technical people to handle online ad?
It’s not technical people, although they don’t have them either. It’s that they don’t have the reach / coverage / power of the duopoly and can’t realistically compete with them.
don’t know how to do ad pricing and conversion tracking?
Again, a red herring.
Those aren’t google’s fault, if traditional media wants to save money on upgrade their ad technology and backend, they will ended up forking money and purchase what others provided.
That’s like saying that if you don’t like Bell Canada’s phone prices, just start your own continent-spanning telephony company.
my question or intention is to ask directly in the game’s community
Which is likely to be polarized for either AMD or nVidia.
Lastly, say, if people go through say, fine art school, should we protect their job opportunity?
No law, no. But, you understand how monopolies / duopolies / cartels work, right?
Yes, and it’s why the people needs to fucking get on the topic of breaking up companies that are too big and concentrated(both political and economical influence). And we just keep approving mergers left and right and complaint why government didn’t have laws(we did) to protect us(small~medium sized companies).
Compare to groceries that involves huge supply chain network, selling ads are actually quite diverse and lively.(that’s why we have ad blockers remember?) And Toronto Star can use the legislation to block linking, contract out their ad space to who had the highest bid. I donno? Maybe some cam-girl site would want a block on Toronto Star right? If you have a product that are very cost efficient, not subject to abuse compare to what google offers, I bet they would like to try as well.
It’s that they don’t have the reach / coverage / power of the duopoly and can’t realistically compete with them.
What did they do when google purchase adsense and other coming up companies? Who says Toronto Star needs to compete with google on selling ads? They just need enough investment or contract it out to cover their operation cost + some revenue right? You said old time is gone why? because Toronto Star by just selling the ad space directly toward ad clients(like Ford you mentioned) is already not financially feasible? So it is cheaper and more beneficial to just use google or meta or whatever established services? It sounds like common sense to hire good contractor to do specialized jobs right? And if everyone can only buy service from a monopoly, or whatever equivalent terms for small amount of competitors, that’s what anti-trust legislation is for.
It just happens that who ever push this “oh this sounds a smart plan” are both business and public policy idiots. The legislation directly shoots the medias they want to protect at their bottom line, it’s like threatening your plumber to give you a discount otherwise you are gonna bust your own pipe again and sue them for it.
That’s like saying that if you don’t like Bell Canada’s phone prices, just start your own continent-spanning telephony company.
Yes you literally can(if you qualify from current legislation), and that’s why it’s fucking stupid to give public funded infrastructure to a privatized company(and what protests we had when that happened?). If you don’t like how it is currently now, do more things in politics. oh wait, no one wants to do that get hands dirty job. Remember the old time where TV and press higher ups are buddies with politicians? Who knew they can be more buddies to the social network companies or tech giants?
Which is likely to be polarized for either AMD or nVidia.
Who said it’s only GPUs?
Irrelevant to what we’re discussing.
Then why did you bring up their qualification, go to school, honor, blah blah into discussion? A good reporter/journalist reports condensed, easy to under stand facts for things that happened and what might be of effect to their readers. When the traditional media still focus on engagement rate time, social media and influencers find ways to attract majority of people with their short attention spans. They are more effective in deliver message in shorter text/video format, EVEN if they might not be correct on the topic. The “old time” guys are competing with that efficiency, and there are no enough protection that you can implement to stop that.
Nearly every ad on the Internet that isn’t on Facebook is a Google ad. They take approximately 1/3 of the money the publisher makes on the ad. So, if Ford pays $1 per click on an ad shown on the Toronto Star, the Star gets $0.68 and Google gets $0.32. Also, Ford pays Google to show that ad because Google runs both the publisher and advertiser sides of the game.
Sure, to some extent. But, the big, powerful news organizations used to have content that was in such high demand that they journalism staff was insulated from the ads side of things. It also used to be a point of honour among journalists and their editors that they were going to speak truth to power, even if it alienated some of their advertisers.
I disagree, most communities become echo-chambers, certain hardware is popular, and certain hardware is “trash” and if you disagree you get downvoted or shouted down. It’s very rare when you can have an informed, balanced conversation about whether nVidia or AMD have the best card at a certain price point. At best you have fanbois for each side duking it out.
Anyhow, the point is that traditional media, media that actually hires people who went to journalism school, now has to compete with random bloggers, people who want to be influencers, people looking to be paid for their affiliate links, etc. Google and Facebook don’t care what you click on, as long as there’s a chance you’ll click on their ads. So, if they have to pay a link tax to link to traditional media companies, they’re happy just to link to the other stuff instead – or just to link to American news sites.
That’s the root cause no? why does it has to go through Google or Meta? If Ford paid google and Toronto Star give google ad space for ad revenue split, everything is in the contract. There is no law to prevent traditional media to have their own union ad organization right? Or at very least, Toronto can refuse and run their own ad space selling like old paper times. If say, Ford can’t do it the old way like on paper, why is that? Toronto Star don’t have enough technical people to handle online ad? don’t know how to do ad pricing and conversion tracking? don’t know how to do targeted ads? Those aren’t google’s fault, if traditional media wants to save money on upgrade their ad technology and backend, they will ended up forking money and purchase what others provided.
That’s also not google’s problem, it’s the industry’s problem. Like theaters/cable tv fighting for survival against streaming, brick and mortar fighting against Amazon, people only want to spend time or money on things they feel justified.
If you go to nvidia community and ask what AMD card is better, then yeah, that’s sort of stupid. In my example, my question or intention is to ask directly in the game’s community. ie. if you ask which monitor might be best in “Home Theater” vs in “CS:GO” community, you would get totally different answer. Which is exactly what should happen for specific “review” for certain target audience. But we only get generic reviews that covers some talk points but not have actual feedbacks. So if I want to have best performance for say, Street Fighter, than I go ask in that community for best setup. Compare to spend hours and hours on review sites, you can quickly get a couple candidates for building/upgrading your PC/setup.
Lastly, say, if people go through say, fine art school, should we protect their job opportunity? Or people that have management degree they should get management jobs? Where are those shoe fixing/tailor made clothing jobs? The entire world is moving target, “used to be” is not a proper excuse to put a bad legislation that might actually back fire and damage the industry in the end.
They have a duopoly.
No law, no. But, you understand how monopolies / duopolies / cartels work, right?
No, the old times are gone.
It’s not technical people, although they don’t have them either. It’s that they don’t have the reach / coverage / power of the duopoly and can’t realistically compete with them.
Again, a red herring.
That’s like saying that if you don’t like Bell Canada’s phone prices, just start your own continent-spanning telephony company.
Which is likely to be polarized for either AMD or nVidia.
Irrelevant to what we’re discussing.
Yes, and it’s why the people needs to fucking get on the topic of breaking up companies that are too big and concentrated(both political and economical influence). And we just keep approving mergers left and right and complaint why government didn’t have laws(we did) to protect us(small~medium sized companies).
Compare to groceries that involves huge supply chain network, selling ads are actually quite diverse and lively.(that’s why we have ad blockers remember?) And Toronto Star can use the legislation to block linking, contract out their ad space to who had the highest bid. I donno? Maybe some cam-girl site would want a block on Toronto Star right? If you have a product that are very cost efficient, not subject to abuse compare to what google offers, I bet they would like to try as well.
What did they do when google purchase adsense and other coming up companies? Who says Toronto Star needs to compete with google on selling ads? They just need enough investment or contract it out to cover their operation cost + some revenue right? You said old time is gone why? because Toronto Star by just selling the ad space directly toward ad clients(like Ford you mentioned) is already not financially feasible? So it is cheaper and more beneficial to just use google or meta or whatever established services? It sounds like common sense to hire good contractor to do specialized jobs right? And if everyone can only buy service from a monopoly, or whatever equivalent terms for small amount of competitors, that’s what anti-trust legislation is for.
It just happens that who ever push this “oh this sounds a smart plan” are both business and public policy idiots. The legislation directly shoots the medias they want to protect at their bottom line, it’s like threatening your plumber to give you a discount otherwise you are gonna bust your own pipe again and sue them for it.
Yes you literally can(if you qualify from current legislation), and that’s why it’s fucking stupid to give public funded infrastructure to a privatized company(and what protests we had when that happened?). If you don’t like how it is currently now, do more things in politics. oh wait, no one wants to do that get hands dirty job. Remember the old time where TV and press higher ups are buddies with politicians? Who knew they can be more buddies to the social network companies or tech giants?
Who said it’s only GPUs?
Then why did you bring up their qualification, go to school, honor, blah blah into discussion? A good reporter/journalist reports condensed, easy to under stand facts for things that happened and what might be of effect to their readers. When the traditional media still focus on engagement rate time, social media and influencers find ways to attract majority of people with their short attention spans. They are more effective in deliver message in shorter text/video format, EVEN if they might not be correct on the topic. The “old time” guys are competing with that efficiency, and there are no enough protection that you can implement to stop that.
edit: typos and some sentence brain farts.