attentionadvertisingonlinebusinesstrendswebContemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse
Contemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse arstechnica.com
What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience [...] A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for.