People at Hail to the Orange (an Illini site) were talking about it as well. Kinda funny, actually. I bet it was a practical joke.

You got the dollars, you can do whatever you want.

For the record: I have no problem with the ad, the wraparoundness or anything associated with this. The people who own the company have put a ton of money into the platform and making it a real company. They need a return on the investment.

We’re here for two reasons: James Mirtle was the one who asked us and the functionality of the site. You guys know how kickass the comment system is. We have AP photos and we’re getting Getty images. We’re linked all over the place. It’s a strong foundation. Getting the big advertisers like Johnson & Johnson on board is huge.

Also for the record, we make next to nothing from the Web site. We hope that might change in the future, but it’s a long ways off and not realistic.

So while I understand some readers not liking some ads or how they change the look of the site, we still get to do what we want to do on the site. And that’s the most important thing to us.

First of all I don’t mind the color scheme of the add, the purple/black isnt terrible. It doesn’t seem intruisive or noticable and if it wasn’t selling K-Y we wouldn’t be talking about it. I can’t even really make out what htey are trying to sell me, it looks like a tube of some black stuff that says Intense which makes me think its gonna make someones reproductive organs burn a little. The add on the right looks like 2 vibrators for “him and her” wtf man wtf? Also, ads are targetted at certain demographics, you advertise knitting supplies on knitting websites. Sports are usually dominated by the target “Males age 18-35” demographic. K-Y is….not so much. So what exactly makes htem want to advertise here, was the phrase “sandy vagina” just showing up a shit ton on google analytics for SBNation or something?

I even clicked it a few time so they would get some results. Takes you to facebook.. shrugs

the less likely the k-y ads come up. I’m not sure why…