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The decline in Internet advertising - though paralleled by a similar trend in print advertising - had more serious and irreversible implications. Modern economic signal theory has cast advertising in a new and surprising - though by no means counterintuitive - light. According to this theory, the role of advertising is to signal to the marketplace the advertiser's resilience, longevity, wealth, clout, and dominance. By splurging money of advertising, the advertiser actually informs us - the 'eyeballs' - that it is here to stay, sufficiently affluent to finance its ads, stable, reliable, and dominant. 'If firm X invested a million bucks in advertising - it must be worth more than a million bucks' - goes the signal. The online noise to signal ratio was unacceptable to advertisers - so they stopped advertising. Article: The decline in Internet - though paralleled by a similar trend in print promotion - had more serious and irreversible implications. Most content dot.coms were based on ad-driven revenue models. Online promotion was supposed to deed start-up and operational costs and lead to profitability even as it subsidized free access to costly content. A similar revenue model has been successfully propping up print periodicals for at least two centuries. But, as opposed to their online counterparts, print products have a few streams of income, not least among them paid subscriptions. Moreover, print media kept their costs down in good times and bad. Dot.coms devoured their investors' money in a self-destructive and avaricious bacchanalia. But why did online advertisement hobbling in the first place? Was it ineffective? Advertising is a multi-faceted and psychologically complex phenomenon. It imparts information to potential consumers, users, suppliers, investors, the community, or other stakeholders in the firm. It motivates each of these to do his bit: consumers to consume, investors to invest and so on. But this is not the main function of the build-up dollar. Modern economic signal theory has cast advertisement in a new and surprising - though by no means counterintuitive - light. According to this theory, the role of build-up is to signal to the marketplace the advertiser's resilience, longevity, wealth, clout, and dominance. By splurging money of advertising, the advertiser actually informs us - the 'eyeballs' - that it is here to stay, sufficiently affluent to finance its ads, stable, reliable, and dominant. 'If firm X invested a million money in advertisement - it must be worth more than a million bucks' - goes the signal. 'If it invested so much money in promoting its products, it is not a fly-by-night'. 'If it can throw money at an ad campaign, it is stable and resilient'. This signal is missing in online advertising. It drowns in noise. The online noise to signal ratio was unacceptable to advertisers - so they stopped advertising. When the noise to signal ratio tops a certain level - ads peg out to be effective. The readers or spectators become inured to the messages - both explicit and implicit. They tune off. The noise in online promotion stems from two sources. A critical element in the signal is lost if the ad is not paid for. Only paid conveys information in connection with the purported health and prospects of the advertiser. Yet, the Internet is flooded with free advertising: free classifieds, free central ads, ad exchanges. The paid ads drown in this ocean of free ads. There is often no way of telling a paid ad from a free one - without reading the fine print. Moreover, Internet users are a 'captive audience'. It is easy to flip ad-besieged channels on TV, or turn the ad-laden leaf of a newspaper. It is guarded to impossible to stand aloof an ad on the Net. primary ads are an integral part of the page. Pop-up ads pop up. Embedded ads are embedded. One needs to install special applications to eschew the harassment. This leads to desensitization and a revolt of the user. Users resent the intrusion, are incensed by the strong arm tactics of advertisers, nerve wrecked by protracted download times, and unnerved by the content of many of the ads. This is not an environment conducive to clinching deals or converting to sales. There is also the issue of credibility. The bulk of online advertising emanates from dot.coms. Even prior to the recent stock exchange meltdown, these were not considered paragons of rectitude and truth in advertising. People learned to distrust most of what they read in Internet ads. Scorched by scams, false promises, faulty products, shoddy or non-existent customer care, links, or all of the on - users learned to ignore Web promotion and relegate it to their mental dust bins. More thereabout credibility on the Web here: The In-Credible Web Will the medium ever recover? Probably not. As the Internet is taken over by brick-and-mortar corporations and governments, online fare will come to resemble the offline sort. Online ads will be no more than interactive renditions of their offline facsimiles. The revenue model will switch from publicity to subscriptions and 'author-pays'. The days of free content financed by publicity are over. This does not mean that the days of free content are over as well. It only means that new, improved, realistic, and clutter-free revenue models will have to be found. There are some interesting developments in scholarly online publishing as well as in the fields of online reference and self-publishing. But these are early days and the medium is dynamic. Ad-driven content was a failure. The next model may be a roaring success - or yet accessory dismal defeat. 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