Diet Pepsi MAX promotion in news

[foxfirefey]

Today's news post introduces the Diet Pepsi MAX sponsored v-gifts. Good news: "You can't send the sponsored v-gifts anonymously, but all account levels are welcome to send them (Paid users won't see the sponsored copy attached to the gifts

Comments

[elfwreck]

Someone needs to make a creative Goatse pic featuring the Diet Pepsi Max can, for putting on profiles that have had the ad inflicted on them against their will. (Animated. "What can you do with a Diet Pepsi Max? Well, you can drink it... or you can find somewhere to store it!")

The only way to deal with invasive advertising is to associate the product with something the advertisers dislike. If goatse is too extreme (which I suppose it probably is, but it'd make a lovely YouTube link), then a simple gif of the can being peeled back to show a penis--"Max for the Max!" should suffice.

[xpashax]

Anyone have a list of the LJ staff user ID's? I want to show them my appreciation by sending them a Pepsi v-gift, clearly they are in need of more caffeine.

[foxfirefey]

We try not to do harassment. LJ staff actually help us out here, when we're asking questions or trying to suggest things. The state of the policies is not determined by the workers we interact with.

[xpashax]

Fair enough.

[makomk]

I see that some people are sending v-gifts to news, though...

Dude! Wait... what?

[mr_z]

Thanks to mynn for being the paid receiving vgift guinea pig: anyone who is NOT paid and looks at the vgift, even if it is on the profile of a paid user, will see the ad copy. However, the paid user will not see the ad copy on any profile they view.

This doesn't seem to be true for a paid user viewing no_lj_ads's profile.

you're missing something

[speck]

you are seeing the text of the message - the sender decided to make it ad copy.

But you are seeing the picture - which is an ad.

If you were a free user, you'd see "Brought to you by Diet Pepsi Max" and a link.

Like the picture on the right here:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g184/liberated_images/spamintheplacewhereyoulive.gif

Re: you're missing something

[mr_z]

Ah, ok. Note to self: Coffee first, then post. Coffee first, then post. Coffee first, then post.

Fail again ...

[speck]

Not coffee. Diet Pepsi MAX.

[shaebay]

The new moodtheme is a joke. I think that they think by flashing the diet pepsi symbol we won't notice that there are only 14 actual moods.

[tallblue]

I just wanted to comment on the advertising. I don't think these choices of revenue where last minute business decisions. Possibly a calculated risk but one they feel is worth taking

[ex_uniquewo]

It would be nice for an opt out for viewing sponsored mood themes and layouts, but just how far is our 20.00 a year supposed to stretch? Maybe it can only be feasible if the paid accounts go up in price? And that would also anger many.

I wonder about that because I haven't seen anything on this topic in official comms, feedback or whatever. Personally, I wouldn't mind paying up to $30/35 if it meant that I would stop seeing ads. If you threw into it a few more icons (let's say 50), I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one.

shaggirl made a poll a little while ago about how much fen would be ready to spend. This does not represent LJ's paying userbase of course but 30% were ready to purchase paid accounts for $50 to $100 and 62% were ready to pay for paid accounts at prices similar to LJ's.

[tallblue]

I know I would pay 50.00 for my paid account a year easy (as long as there are no advertisements in anything), not sure about 100.00 due to the fact a large website is about that a year. I think with bluehost.com is 95.00 with domain name free for the life of the account.