Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-4146635-20150131003927

Hey everyone! I wanted to pitch this new way of promoting upcoming projects. I had this idea for a while and thought it'd be a good idea to pitch it now. Some of you may have recently noticed, there are little thin ads coming up on pages around the wiki. I added this new code to the Wikia.js that will allow us to post content at the top of pages. I was thinking that as a way to promote projects, we could make thin ads, like ones you see on a website and things like that, and we'd have them promoted above pages. All of the content that is put at the top of the pages is from this template. I used this feature/property that will allow multiple ad pictures to be put in the template and it will choose a different one at random each time you see it. I also added an option where nothing is shown so all throughout the wiki it won't be non stop ads, sometimes nothing will show up. I already added them to the wiki so you guys could see how it will look and I think it actually looks pretty cool, it'll be a good way to promote projects (in addition to the main page which people really should start using more. :P). I made promotional pics for Studio Funny, Break Free, Too Little Too Late, and Gary and Gerry season 3. Sorry if they're not stylized to how you (creators) want the show/movie to be, these are just examples anyway.

Now must I mind you all, I think Wikia has a terrible randomizing system when it comes to this feature, sometimes you'll see one option about five times consecutively before you see another one, I don't know why it's like that, it's stupid. So give it some time when you first check it out.

I think if we do go along with this way of promotion, which I hope we do, I think we'll need to sort out promotion of projects on the wiki. Basically, we'd have to decide what kind of promotion the main page is for, the sidebar, and the top of the page. I see the main page promotion more so as just general promotion, kind of like commercials on DC. DC has commercials like "New episode of Jessie," "KC Undercover coming soon to Disney Channel," or even just commercials like "Watch Austin & Ally on Disney Channel." I see the main page more so as something like that. I see the top of page promotion kind of as a what's happening now promotion and something that's more long term (like promoting a new movie or new show). And the sidebar promotion is more like an immediate attention short term kind of thing like if a movie is premiering that week, promotion for it goes on the sidebar. And singles, too. :)

Sorry this is long, I have more I want to say but I'll save it. :) 