Google Will Not Take Online Gambling Advertisements Anymore

[InternetPokerPro]

Just heard a report of something to this extent on CNN.

Assuming it includes Poker Sites and not just Online Casinos.

According to the report, the action comes as a result of pressure from the US Gvnmnt.

Curious as to how significant the group feels online advertising is to attracting new players?

[TylerD]

At first I thought this was very significant, but the more I think about it the more I think it won't be that bad.

Google has about 70% market share so this is the most relevant. However Google uses AdRank whereby it shows ads relating to the search term. So if you stick in "Poker" chances are a Party ad will appear, its also most likely that Party is top of the search results. So the only time surfers are going to find poker sites is when they are searching for poker related sites and this won't change.

[Bubmack]

Sure its significant....a bigger problem will be how soon the travel channel follows suit?

Bubs

[Standard]

It's catachlysmic.

Are you a winning player? Where does that money COME from?

Either there are some players repeatedly losing tons of money, or new players coming in, losing (maybe rebuying), losing, leaving. If you're a money-making player, you're mostly living off of the replacements. (Just see how many "old faces" versus "new faces" you see online).

Currently, we are witnessing a "new player" population based on exposure to quickneasy poker links that pop in their faces during their normal surfing.

The 2 sites that most people see everyday during their normal surfing just disappeared.

Sharks can't live off of sharks.

[TylerD]

Uh-Oh (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=613437&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1#Post614424)

[StevieG]

And in the immediate impact department, we may have to start paying for the forum service that 2+2 provides.

Unless they feel like being the test case for free commercial speech.

The small fraction of overall ad money Google and Yahoo! get from online gaming means that it is not even worth it for them to buck the U.S. government. Not true of 2+2, who probably stand to lose a lot of revenue.

There is precedent for commercial free speech with respect to advertising gaming in states that already allow it. (http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/telecommunications/victorytelv3i2.htm), but this would most certainly be a different kind of case.

[MicroBob]

"Sure its significant....a bigger problem will be how soon the travel channel follows suit?"

online-gambling ads on the travel channel were all pulled last fall.

[StevieG]

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At first I thought this was very significant, but the more I think about it the more I think it won't be that bad.

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Good point. For the most part, the word is out. Maybe not for specific sites, but people know you can play cards online and that tens of thousands do.

After that, it's just a matter of searching, and the engines still show the sites, even without ads.

[MicroBob]

i think the impact is more dramatic then we will get to know.....but won't be that bad.
contradictory??? not exactly.

it has been shown that the online gambling industry has not grown as originally projected, partly due to the various advertising restrictions.
i think it should still continue to grow.....it just won't grow at the ultra-phenomenal rate that it COULD have if they were allowed to advertise as much they wanted.


last year at this time....party would have 10k players and stars 2k players on a decent weekend night.
now they are at 40k and 15k respectively.

i just don't see that many players busting out that party goes back to under 20k on the weekends.
even paradise, having lost so much market-share, pretty much still has more players than ever....they just don't have as high a PERCENTAGE of the players.



if the whole balloon bursts and i'm wrong about internet-gambling growth then so be it. but gambling is booming in live casinos as is poker....and the online-gambling explosion is not out of line with this.




oh yeah.....and i'm sooooooo glad our fine government decided to use their time to get on yahoo and google rather then focus on any of the REAL myriad issues and problems in the country.

[gabyyyyy]

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Sure its significant....a bigger problem will be how soon the travel channel follows suit?

Bubs

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Also they have edited out online gambling ads that appear on articles of clothing.

[gabyyyyy]

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Sure its significant....a bigger problem will be how soon the travel channel follows suit?

Bubs

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The travel channel has already followed suit. They were issued a warning letter by the U.S Government "TELLING THEM TO CEASE AND DESIST ADVERTISING ONLINE GAMING".

They followed the order and are no longer accepting online gambling advertisements.

[smudgex68]

The Chinese take a similar approach to preventing their population participating in similar activities

[MS Sunshine]

"Sharks can't live off of sharks."

Yeah, you can, but they're tough and a little tasteless.

MS Sunshine