Anyone else notice that instead of banner ads for mining companies, Kitco is now running “Do You Trust Obama?” ads from some nutball right wing website, or in-house filler ads for its own features where you’d normally get a flash advert for a junior, or big “Ad Choices” blocks in high-eyeball places that bring you the latest offers from places like Walmart, Expedia, Dell and Orange? I mean, these ads make Kitco look as amateur and flakey as this humble corner of cyberspace (yup, that bad).
The last time I recall a near-total lack of budget for ads from mining companies at one of the highest-traffic metals sites in the world was back in 2008.