Forum Billboards

Posted by Blonde Jon

February 15, 2007

If you spend any time driving on the interstate, you’ve seen many of them. They some times make you laugh. They some times tick you off. And sometimes you completely ignore them. They are billboards. Companies spend a lot of money to get your attention when you are driving down the road. What if there was some way to have billboards on the internet? What if there was some way to have a billboard on the internet and it didn’t cost a thing?

Avatars are every where in forums. People have used their avatars for advertising space probably since the invention of the internet and forums. But it seems that recently, in the last few months an avatar craze has been taking place. People have been using their avatars like billboards in forums. In most cases having the avatar as an advertising space is absolutely free as long as the avatar space belongs to you. You can find a lot of people in the digital point forum that have been buying and selling their avatar spaces.

Here are a few avatars (forum billboards) that you may have seen around:

I started using my avatar on a couple of forums and have even bought an avatar space. I’ve seen an increase in searches for “web puffs” in my stats. This could be from my avatar advertising, or it could be previous visitors who remembered the name, but not the url to my site. There’s no way to really track the succes of the avatar, but hey, if you have avatar space, use it as your billboard. Turn some heads.