Joined: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am Posts: 8587 Location: 11.5 Miles from the Strip
Now that the ads are running, we can publicly thank Venetian for signing on as an official sponsor of AVP!
I strongly encourage all AVP members to visit the Venetian poker room website through the ads that are posted. It will take you directly to the DeepStacked Series schedule and give you all the Venetian poker information from the official source.
Long before the sponsorship, the Venetian was always considered the best overall room in Vegas, as voted by the members, and we are proud to call them our first major sponsor!
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Joined: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:22 am Posts: 1070 Location: Sin City, Univers(ity)
Huge, Huge, HUGE thanks to the Venetian poker room for having the resolve and confidence in AVP to spend a good chunk of its advertising budget with us.
My "official thoughts" about the new sponsorship deal are published in the news section on the main site, which you can read by clicking here.
With 100,000 visitors per month, the Las Vegas poker rooms are finally waking up to AVP and the power of the Interwebz ... and the Venetian is the first one out of bed .... bright eyed and bushy tailed!
Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:34 pm Posts: 5049 Location: Las Vegas!!!
Kudos to the V for sponsoring this site, I know it's already the favorite room of a majority of AVP, and this is huge...thanks for sponsoring our side of the interweb!!!
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Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:15 am Posts: 359 Location: A few clicks off center
The V rocks! It is already my favorite room for multiple reasons and where I can be found most of the time but this just adds another reason to love that room.
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Doug I am glad you were able to get a poker room to come online with you. I look forward to the enhancements this will enable you to do in taking AVP to another level.
Joined: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:18 pm Posts: 79 Location: Boston, MA
Two quick suggestions/comments:
- When I click the ad, it is blocked by Internet Explorer's pop-up blocker. To click through, I have to temporarily allow pop-ups. Not sure if that has to do with the fact that it's a Flash ad or what, or if it's an AVP or Venetian issue, but just wanted to mention it... you might be getting more click throughs if it doesn't get stopped by pop-up blockers!
- This is mostly for the V: just wanted to suggest having a better "landing" page that maybe had some text describing what the DSE was, hyped it, etc. I already know what the DSE is and that direct link to all the info is helpful. But if I didn't know what it was (for example if I'd never been to Las Vegas and stumbled upon AVP while searching about Vegas poker) and I clicked the ad, I could see myself being confused with the current page and it taking a while to figure out what the tournaments were all about, etc.
Joined: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:22 am Posts: 1070 Location: Sin City, Univers(ity)
Vince wrote:
Two quick suggestions/comments:
- When I click the ad, it is blocked by Internet Explorer's pop-up blocker. To click through, I have to temporarily allow pop-ups. Not sure if that has to do with the fact that it's a Flash ad or what, or if it's an AVP or Venetian issue, but just wanted to mention it... you might be getting more click throughs if it doesn't get stopped by pop-up blockers!
- This is mostly for the V: just wanted to suggest having a better "landing" page that maybe had some text describing what the DSE was, hyped it, etc. I already know what the DSE is and that direct link to all the info is helpful. But if I didn't know what it was (for example if I'd never been to Las Vegas and stumbled upon AVP while searching about Vegas poker) and I clicked the ad, I could see myself being confused with the current page and it taking a while to figure out what the tournaments were all about, etc.
Hi Vince, thanks for the feedback. You make two excellent points.
1. Regarding the pop-ups, I don't know how to get around this. I'm using Firefox and haven't had the problem, but I'm not the average user. We'll do a little research.
2. I totally agree with you about the landing page ("LP"). Our original vision for V's the LP was for it to be a custom "sponsored page" hosted on AVP. I personally think this would be better for the users, and ultimately for the V.
Another benefit is that it could be easily developed and rapidly deployed, whereas modifying the LP on the V's website has a little red tape associated with it.
This is AVP advertising v1.0b. By the time we get to AVP advertising v1.3 I bet we have a hosted sponsored page solution, at least as an option for our advertisers that have something specific to promote (e.g., V's DSE Tournament Series)...
Joined: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:52 pm Posts: 1311 Location: The Great White North, eh?
Saw the Venetian ad myself, and clicked on it.
I'm planning to play a DSE event this June, and it's only because I've read so many good things about the V on this site. If it weren't for AVP (the site), I likely would not have considered the Venetian as a poker destination.
That being said, I'm hopefully that the V will update their site for DSE III soon; another post on this site from dcarp mentioned that they were going to tweak the structure of the DSE events. This tweak hasn't been updated to the site yet, and I'm very curious to see what will change.
Congrats to AVP on securing the V as a sponsor; congrats to the V for their wise choice in advertising on AVP.
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