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Unnerving IQ
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The outrage over Steve Bannon has spilled over to Breitbart News, of which Bannon has been the Executive Chairman of for years. Multiple advertisers including Kelloggs, BMW and others have begun pulling their advertisements, seemingly in a move to distance themselves from the controversial online newspaper. The move by Kelloggs sparked outrage by Bannon and Breitbart, who have decided to call for a boycott of all Kelloggs products, via their website, as a means to fight back.
The move by many of these large corporations to cancel ad contracts on Breitbart seems to already be hurting the company, as the majority of current ads on the news site are being fed to the site by Google and Taboola, which are third party ad providers, and there now appears to be no indication of any direct advertising on the site. The inventory appears to be so low that ads are now appearing on Breitbart touting Steve Bannons IQ as Unnerving. The ad in question, which you can see in the image above, which directs to Brainsmuggler.com, and appears to be created merely to make money from a deluge of banner ads and popups, is likely earning Breitbart a few pennies per click.
While this ad likely isnt created by Breitbart or Bannon, it is rather ironic that such an ad now appears on a site which is struggling to achieve meaningful revenue. Perhaps if Bannons IQ was really so unnerving he wouldnt have killed the hands that are feeding him.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Pringles ahoy!
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)not sarcasm this time.
Bullshit like that should be self-funded, not gifted ad revenue for clicks from racist assholes.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Apparently Breitbart can't sell their ad inventory...
no brand in their right mind wants to take a chance
that Bannon would turn on them too. Besides
Breitbart's audience is pretty much the bottom
of the barrel, not many valuable consumers there.
Just a bunch of racist nincompoops and knuckleheads.
Fuck 'em.
Bucky
(53,997 posts)Yeah, that oughta hurt 'em!!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)So Shinola is distancing itself from shit.