How One Startup Is Blocking Ad Blockers

How One Startup Is Blocking Ad Blockers
An Epoch Times staff members views the Yahoo home page with the Adblock Plus app installed on her computer in New York on OCt. 1, 2015. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
Emel Akan
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People like free stuff, like consuming online articles and videos without looking at the annoying pop-up ads. And now there are plenty of ad blocking tools that avoid online ads, banners, and videos. But they pose a great threat to publishers that depend on ad revenue for survival.

“The incredible growth of ad blocking has reached the tipping point where sites will no longer be able to operate,” Justin Bunnell, CEO of AdSupply Inc., states on the company’s website.

“If ad blocking continues unchecked, it will eliminate the advertising revenue websites need to survive. It is like expecting a movie theater to stay in business when 30 percent of their audience does not pay for a ticket.”

The incredible growth of ad blocking has reached the tipping point where sites will no longer be able to operate.
Justin Bunnell, CEO, AdSupply
Emel Akan
Emel Akan
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Emel Akan is a senior White House correspondent for The Epoch Times, where she covers the policies of the Trump administration. Previously, she reported on the Biden administration and the first term of President Trump. Before her journalism career, she worked in investment banking at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
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