Questions tagged [community-promotion-ads]
For the Community Promotion Ads program, which allows community members to place ads on certain sites that benefit other community members for free.
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A proposal for bringing back Community Promotion & Open Source Ads
First introduced in 2009, Open Source Ads offered the Stack Overflow community the opportunity to propose and approve ads that members thought would be of interest to the community. These ads would ...
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How to best leverage the Community Ads feature for maximum contribution?
The beta community that I moderate may be up for maturation in 2022 -- which would allow for "Community Ads".
I am very excited to gain this feature because it represents a real opportunity ...
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Outdated community ads are being shown
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After some detective work by @barbarabeeton it turned out the problem is not the display of downvote/deleted ads but that old ads from the last year get displayed.
Can the ads please be ...
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The future of Community Promotion, Open Source, and Hot Network Questions Ads
September 2021 update: The ads are now live! As a way to try to address some of the concerns about the voting period being too short, we're running the selected ads that score 6 or more, or any ads ...
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Will there be Community Promotion Ads in 2021, if so when?
(title stolen from Will there be Community Promotion Ads in 2020, if so when?)
Community promotion ads were usually posted in January, but this didn't happen in 2021 yet. It's not urgent but I've just ...
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Who benefits from certain ads targetting open source projects?
I know how affiliate marketing works (though not an expert) but I can't comprehend in certain cases, where is the benefit of the ads (as in, who benefit from it?) when they relate to an open source ...
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Please add "Return to Question" from the Community Ads into Transifex
In the international SO sites there has been a post where Community Ads can be proposed. In all of them there is a link to the site where You can see all the ads that currently make the threshold and ...
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Are community ads still a thing? [duplicate]
Are community ads still a thing? The last activity on the offical tag was in 2013, and I can’t remember when I last saw a community ad banner (this might be due to ad blocking, although I’ve in ...
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How can the required number of votes for community promotion ads be lowered on smaller sites?
Martial Arts SE just got our first community ads a few months ago. The requirement is that in order for an ad to be shown, it must have at least 6 votes. However, I'm sure I speak for many small ...
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Preventing display of incorrectly sized Community Ads
At the GIS Stack Exchange we currently have a Community Ad that displays as below:
whereas the GIS Meta Answer from which it is derived looks like this:
The instructions to Community Ad posters is ...
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Allow for non-Imgur hosted images in community ads [duplicate]
Once upon a time, Mi Yodeya had a community ad which looked like this:
This was a really neat ad, and was heavily upvoted and put into the rotation year after year...until however long ago it's been ...
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Community Ads questions on newly 'graduated' sites don't show template in answer box
JNat just posted a couple of 2020 Community Ads questions across the network. I noticed that in some cases, the answer box is already filled with the template (see the screenshot below):
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Will there be Community Promotion Ads in 2020, if so when?
Will Community Promotion Ads be returning this year? In previous years, a post was put up on meta (Chem, Math, Phys) sometime between December and early February. Is it just delayed or is this feature ...
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Clicking community promotion ad renders an instance of SO within the frame of that ad
Today I came across an ad on this question on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58299219/how-to-replicate-vlookup-in-vba (I don't expect it to stay very long).
There was a community promotion ...
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Is there a list of all Stack Exchange sites that advertise themselves with Community Ads on other sites?
I know that some Stack Exchange sites (e.g. Writing) have community ads that they submit on other sites (example below). Is there a list of all such SE sites? I assume based on past questions that ...
