Banner Ads Appearing on Yahoo Discouraging Online Betting

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08-18-2009 , 10:56 PM

coolhandluck

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 26

A friend forwarded this to me and said it appeared as the banner ad on his Yahoo page:

It links to the National Council on Problem Gaming.

First off, I'm surpised that they would be buying ads and I suspect that another group is buying ads for them. Does iMEGA have any plans to counter such a campaign?

08-19-2009 , 02:49 AM

LetsGambool

banned

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 26,568

These have been around for awhile, FWIW. Im interested on iMEGA's take, but if you want more info you should definitely search the forums as there was a long discussion on this earlier this year.

08-19-2009 , 07:55 AM

deathduck

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,357

at least it doesn't mention poker.

08-19-2009 , 12:19 PM

sba9630

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4,510

"STOP NO INTERNET GAMBLING"

I'm all for that.

08-19-2009 , 07:35 PM

BullGator

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 238

And go to ESPN and see ads for Stars & Tilt.

08-22-2009 , 06:58 PM

joe@iMEGA

Chairman of iMEGA

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 150

Guys,

Sorry it took so long to respond, I've been tied up with meetings and then in transit to Vegas.

At this point, I think it would be a bad use of our limited resources to try and go banner-to-banner with these guys, especially when their banners are pretty bad (poor grammar highlighted below).

IMO, I don't think this is going to flip any pro-gambling people, and really doesn't move the needle for agnostics.

Again, IMO, the more intollerant the other side appears, and the more they reach like this, the better it is for all of us.

In short: if your foe runs an ad that make them look bad, let them keep running it

Joe@iMEGA

08-24-2009 , 01:24 AM

Uglyowl

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 6,384

These ads are part of a settlement that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sportingnews, and others made with the Justice Department for having financial gain allowing gambling advertisements over the years. Each company shipped some cash and agreed to run some anti-gambling advertisements on their sites.

http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPSR...62590520071219

Last edited by Uglyowl; 08-24-2009 at 01:31 AM.

11-05-2009 , 04:49 AM

above_films

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 231

you would think that the justice dept would have OTHER things to do these days.

11-06-2009 , 06:55 PM

ASCERO

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 407

Stop reading the banner when I saw the "NO INTERNET GAMBLING" its just too agressive.....the word "NO" isnt good for promoting anything, people like to do things that are prohibited thats a fact.

Quote:

When you’re told NO—when you’re staring into the face of adversity—when the challenge is the hardest—that’s when the passionate rise to the occasion, use what they know and change the world.

To do this requires adopting a paradigm shift, a change in thinking. When someone tells you No, consider it an open challenge to achieve excellence.

The greatest minds of our time have seen NO not as an endpoint but as an opportunity.

12-05-2009 , 01:10 AM

#10

Trumpetman219

newbie

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 33

SEriously give me a break...teh JD better be gettin on some e-crime instead of dealing with us online poker grinders. Damn.

12-05-2009 , 12:53 PM

#11

TeflonDawg

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5,943

I might give a **** about this ad when poker is legally a gambling game and not skill.

In before ignorance.

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