Strange Bedfellows

Ghoulish Delight · 05-10-2006, 08:12 AM

Those are random, paid advertisements. It's not surprisng at all. Why would Disney want to refuse advertising revenue? It's no different than a Universal movie being advertised on ABC. If they studio is willing to pay Disney for the ad space, Disney will happily accept their money.

Alex · 05-10-2006, 08:34 AM

Yeah, it looks like they're just standard Doubleclick ad spaces. Disney can reject any ads if they want, but as GD says, why would they want.

What I don't understand is that Disney has on the payroll some of the most advanced, most modern, most standards friendly front end coders in the country (ESPN has been a leader in implementing almost fully compliant HTML/CSS) and yet almost every Web page they produce outside of the ESPN realm is coded as if it is 1997. This page hasn't a single <DIV> tags, no external style sheet, and is using tables in the most old-fashioned positioning way imaginable.

DreadPirateRoberts · 05-10-2006, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Yeah, it looks like they're just standard Doubleclick ad spaces. Disney can reject any ads if they want, but as GD says, why would they want.

I guess I was just surprised that any Disney website would feel the need to support itself with Doubleclick ads, it cheapens the brand. They spent all this money on their site, even send me an email when it's updated. I go to the site to read a teaser about the new Pirates movie, and I see an ad for a Dreamworks movie. It threw me off for a second. I feel like anything on a Disney website should be endorsed by Disney, but maybe my standards are too high. Seems kind of counter productive. I wonder what isn't an acceptable ad for this site?

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yeah, it looks like they're just standard Doubleclick ad spaces. Disney can reject any ads if they want, but as GD says, why would they want. What I don't understand is that Disney has on the payroll some of the most advanced, most modern, most standards friendly front end coders in the country (ESPN has been a leader in implementing almost fully compliant HTML/CSS) and yet almost every Web page they produce outside of the ESPN realm is coded as if it is 1997. This page hasn't a single <DIV> tags, no external style sheet, and is using tables in the most old-fashioned positioning way imaginable.
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