Today I saw an advertisement for the Pimp Lord game on our social network. Ning, the platform for our social network, reserves the right to run advertising on our social network because I do not pay the $19.95 a month premium fee to remove those ads. This Pimp ad comes from an advertising service for online games called Ad4Game. They say,
“Ad4Game is the Internet’s Game Ad Network. We are partnered with the key players in the gaming industry. The company is focused on gamers ONLY. We want to make sure our advertisers can reach a highly targeted gaming audience. Ads we place on our publishers’ websites are relevant and interesting to their visitors”.
Sandra Rafaela, the co-founder of the Women of the African Diaspora website and social network, and I say that this Pimp ad is NOT relevant and interesting to us and you, our website visitors. So we are taking a two pronged strategy against being held hostage by whatever ads the Ning network chooses to serve up. Does particular ad and others bother you as well?
1. If you find this ad, and other ads like “Meet sexy African women for dating” etc. out of place for the Women of the African Diaspora Social Network are you willing and able to contribute $1 to pay the premium service to remove these ads? The fee is $19.95 a month or $239.40 a year. To date we are exactly 600 members. $600 is enough to pay for 2 and a half years of Ning advertising removed. Our social network is strong and growing and will be here for us as long as we want it for years to come.
To contribute you dollar please click on the Chip In widget below or follow this link:
http://agcommunicationsgroup.chipin.com/removing-ads-from-wad
I made the first contribution:
And Sandra’s contribution was a close second:
2. I will contact Ning and provide a picture of the Pimp ads and explain that they are not serving us with advertising that matches out interests. Here is the contact information for Marc Andreesen, Co-Chair & Founder of Ning (pmarcablog@gmail.com) for your to do the same. For example you can say:
“I am a proud member of the Women of the African Diaspora Social Network on the Ning platform (http://blackwomenunite.ning.com) and I find certain advertising that you serve us, including the Pimp game ad from Ad4Game offensive. It not relevant nor is it interesting. I do not feel that these type of ads should appear on any network on the Ning platform that was set up for black women. How will you handle this error in judgement”? Signed (Your name), a disappointed Ning user.
Depending on how responsive Ning I would be willing to take this campaign to the public, starting with contacting all of my fellow moderators on Ning, at least those who are members of the moderator’s group Ning has set up.
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