Sunday, April 19, 2009

Ads support free Internet services

I agree on the point of this article - How Free Product & Services survive. It is ads revenue keep free services survive.

Online advertising is an important link in Internet business food chain. It is like this diagram.

advertiser -> free service -> customer -> advertiser

If advertising is removed from chain because of ad block, then free media can not survive, we can not get free information from Internet any more. Let me ask this “Do you want to pay Yahoo for news and stock info?”. If you say no, then you can not refuse watching ads on Yahoo.