You Have No Idea What’s Behind These Clickbait Headlines!

DoYouEvenLift · 11-03-2015 08:15AM

At the high point of ppc ads on FB 'like' pages, some of the admins of the large pages (>1m likes) were generating thousands of dollars per day, from absolutely minimum effort. Look at the lad bible, it's worth a few million and it's absolutely sh!t, obviously people want that kind of stuff.

galljga1 · 11-03-2015 08:17AM

'Basic Lubricants and Servicing' ..... but it was from the Cycling Forum.

One post has the following entry : Dry lube for summer / dry periods and wet lube for winter / wetter periods...... so maybe there is some hidden meaning or maybe I am a dirtbag.

LDN_Irish · 11-03-2015 12:30PM

UCDVet wrote: »

Headlines are written with the INTENT of catching people's attention. If a particular style proves effective, it's because THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.

Clearly, it's not what *you* want. I'm sure you aren't alone, and you're welcome to write headlines that cater to your sensibilities or to seek out places that write headlines how you like to see them. But, it seems like you're probably in the minority. As demonstrated by the effectiveness.

If you have to *blame* someone for the situation, blame the people who like headlines different from yourself. Not the writers who are successfully providing entertainment in the way that other people enjoy.

Dude, no. Clickbait headlines are not what people want or enjoy, that's a ridiculous assertion. They are designed to get people to click, which they do effectively. That's not the same as people enjoying or desiring to click on misleading headlines.

C14N · 12-03-2015 10:47AM

Dep! wrote: »

Was it Buzzfeed who started it all? I don't remember it around as much before they began gaining in popularity in Ireland.

Other sites have always had it, it's just that they would use it now and again while Buzzfeed are utterly dependant on it. I think I remember hearing about how they research people's behaviours in order to manipulate them to click things most effectively instead of, I dunno, writing good articles that make people actually want to come back.

Egginacup · 12-03-2015 11:14AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

The whole clickbait thing would appear to my untrained eye to be a pyramid scheme of sorts. Sites like the journal.ie take news from media sources like Reuters, the Independent and the Times and republish it with a few changes. Place a few related articles links underneath it, and open the floor to the baying masses of balding, potbellied Irishmen in football shirts to post their ill-informed opinions about what tend to be complex economic, political and societal stories. The media outlets struggling to still remain relevant with their traditional model of charging for news are being eaten alive by parasites who won't have these outlets to steal from when the whole model becomes untenable.

You'll then end up with sites filled with sponsored articles, cheap rehashing of press releases, and news that is sold to the highest bidder. So excuse me if I still think that paying less than €3 for access to the digital edition of the Times and the Indo is worth paying a price for.

FYP

Mr. CooL ICE · 12-03-2015 11:27AM

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spiralism · 12-03-2015 05:29PM

Can anybody imagine if this sort of **** existed as a form of news throughout history?:

"You'll never believe what this German dictator wants to do...click here to find out!"

Dep! · 20-03-2015 12:44PM

A new low https://thelotter.com/weird-lottery-winner-stories/?utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=Hiding_Places_EN_Mobile

The "bait" was a pic of a giant pair of tits. For shame internet, for shame!

You Have No Idea What’s Behind These Clickbait Headlines!

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