Pop-unders with Burst! Media
As much as I despise pop-unders, they look better and better as you realize that you’re paying more and more for bandwidth. Here I’m talking about my Warcraft-Maps.com website which pulls in almost nothing and yet is the most costly to run. I hate popups/popunders/layers/etc as much as the next guy, and from the start I decided I wouldn’t use them. But after being forced to upgrade my webhosting twice so far (and probably again by the end of the year), I’ve decided that popunders aren’t such a bad idea after all. Bandwidth can be painfully expensive when you’re using it to provide free downloads.
Regardless, enough about me and more about Burst! Media. I currently use both Burst and Valueclick to provide advertising on Warcraft-Maps. Both happen to offer popunders which is what I was wanting to use. By chance, I came across a couple messages in the Burst forums from back in 2004 which were quite helpful. I’ve condensed the information here.
There are a couple ways to show pops through Burst. Read more…