Paying for Content: A New Context for Online Ads?: "WSJ.com's pages are populated by fewer but larger ads than most news sites, which experts I spoke with agree will become the norm on paid sites. WSJ.com proscribes uninitiated audio and has a rigidly restrictive pop-up policy. "Our readers' mindset is, 'I'm paying for it. I shouldn't have to tolerate the worst abuses of advertising,'" said [CEO and Publisher] Neil. When a mouse-over activated audio in an ad on the site, complaints rolled in. The ad was pulled and a policy created."
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