ihop
08-03-2006, 10:17 AM
hey high friends, i'm really high right now and i'm reading this article about AOL becoming free and i have no one to tell it to right now and i don't want to post it anywhere else so i thought i'd post it amongst my high peers :) :rasta: :rasta: :rasta: :) .
AOL is now free because it sucks at the internet. they are now adding advertisements to their content to replace the income of subscriptions (perhaps like the way Google has their ads set up). By doing this, the company (time warner) is losing a little over 1 billion dollars a year (which is fucking terrible for such a big time internet company who took over the fucking pop scene in the 90s). While becoming an enormous pop icon in the 90s, AOL should have supplied their software and email accounts free and replaced subscription fees with ads on their page! Why didn't execs just do that when AOL was the king of the internet? They would have made farrrrr more money than their subscription service. HOWEVER, they would have made far more money in the LONG run... but in short term, they would have been doing just fine. Although I don't have the numbers to prove that it would, think about it... AOL was practically the sole way to access the internet in simple steps and navigation, being the only way to access the internet, major companies would have killed for an ad on something that people stare at aimlessly (no pun intended?), and you know major companies love that. In any case, I just want to say that AOL could have done better with their marketing scheme and that it had lousy execsâ?¦ probably old ones who wanted to hold onto the past for far too long.
AOL is now free because it sucks at the internet. they are now adding advertisements to their content to replace the income of subscriptions (perhaps like the way Google has their ads set up). By doing this, the company (time warner) is losing a little over 1 billion dollars a year (which is fucking terrible for such a big time internet company who took over the fucking pop scene in the 90s). While becoming an enormous pop icon in the 90s, AOL should have supplied their software and email accounts free and replaced subscription fees with ads on their page! Why didn't execs just do that when AOL was the king of the internet? They would have made farrrrr more money than their subscription service. HOWEVER, they would have made far more money in the LONG run... but in short term, they would have been doing just fine. Although I don't have the numbers to prove that it would, think about it... AOL was practically the sole way to access the internet in simple steps and navigation, being the only way to access the internet, major companies would have killed for an ad on something that people stare at aimlessly (no pun intended?), and you know major companies love that. In any case, I just want to say that AOL could have done better with their marketing scheme and that it had lousy execsâ?¦ probably old ones who wanted to hold onto the past for far too long.