Gotta earn my Hot Pockets, after all.
UPDATED LIST OF GAWKER NETWORK ADVERTISERS (COMPILED 8-13-2015)
Strikethroughs are advertisers who are gone since the previous update on 7-15-15.
Plus signs are new advertisers.
Gawker
fxnetworks.com (the new show "Married")
Amazon.com (both native ads and links with tracking cookies)
Philips Sonicare (native ads)
+Netflix
+Braintreepayments.com
+Mazda Automobiles
+Coors Brewing Company
Kinja Promotions
All visible at http://promotions.kinja.com/
meundies.com (native ad)
naturebox.com (native ad)
udemy.com (native ad)
shopify.com (native ad)
thestatusaudio.com (native ad)
meetearnest.com (native ad)
wavesgear.com (native ad)
oysterbooks.com (native ad)
bombas.com (native ad)
blueapron.com (native ad)
Hostgator.com (native ad)
dreamhost.com (native ad)
happysocks.com (native ad)
Kotaku
Casper.com (native ads)
Picturekeeper.com
Amazon.com
Hulu
+Kellogg's Cereal
+Yokohama Tires
+ Cox High Speed Internet
+Playstation Store
+meetearnest.com
+Target
+Subway Sandwiches
+Mazda Automobiles
Jezebel
Lysol
Amazon.com
Philips Sonicare (banner)
picturekeeper.com
Subway sandwiches
Hulu
+Allstate
+thestatusaudio.com
+meetearnest.com
Gizmodo
Kellogs cereal
Amazon.com
Amazon Prime
EAS Sports Nutrition (eas.com)
picturekeeper.com
Honda motorcycles
apartments.com
+meundies.com
+Cadillac via daregreatly.com
+slack.com
+Target
Lifehacker
Discover Card
Amazon.com
Barkbox (native ads)
Netflix
Gumout
+slack.com
+shopify.com
+Subway Sandwiches
+EAS Sports Nutrition (eas.com)
'''+ Dungeon Defenders II by Trendy Entertainment (via Steampowered)
+Hanes underwear
+Target
+Microsoft Windows 10
+Honda Powersports
Deadspin
Anheuser-busch beer
Vitacoco.com
Picturekeeper.com
eas.com
+stacksocial.com
+Allstate
+Subway Sandwiches
+Cox Cable
io9
Qualcomm
Pixels (the movie) (Amazon pre-order)
Stacksocial (native ads)
Fluxmob (native ads)
picturekeeper.com
+Rebel Yell Whiskey
+Microsoft Windows 10
+Lockheed Martin
+Energizer Batteries
+Cox High Speed Internet
+udemy.com
+Dungeon Defenders II via Steampowered
Jalopnik
Armorall
Blueapron.com (native ads)
optimabatteries.com
yokohamatire.com
Honda Powersports (native ads)
Guinness beer (native ads)
+stacksocial.com
+Subway Sandwiches
+Michelin Tires
+Cox Cable
BATTLE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT:
There are three things that have happened that I haven't seen before on Gawker's sites.
1: There has been no lull in advertising. Previously, the sites would go weeks almost devoid of ads before a new batch appeared.
2: Most of the new ads are not appearing on only one or two of Gawker's sub-sites like they did before, but rather seem to be spread across all or most of them at the same time.
3: Location-targeted ads appeared on the site in ad boxes, some for businesses in my own hometown, and again from a VPN node that I used for the second sweep. These were served by ads.beringmedia.com, a new aggregator not previously seen on Gawker.
In addition to the above, the number of scripts that Gawker's site network loads now is absolutely massive. It slowed a lighting-fast Linux computer to a halt and crashed the browser of my Windows 8 computer at work several times to get this information. With Noscript turned back on, the pages all load and appear normally. This is probably related to Gawker's "customer browsing habits" recordkeeping and sales of that information that we became aware of last year.
I am not an advertising expert, but this all suggests to me that Gawker has changed something in the way they negotiate their ad contracts, and are now aggressively pushing advertisers to do business with them - possibly with higher "bundle" rates for advertising across multiple sites in the Gawker network. The money crunch they're under from the impending Hogan lawsuit and $20,000,000 they've already lost to Disrespectful Nod is doubtlessly a motivating factor in them aggressively pursuing new ad income. Twenty Million Dollarydoos can buy a lot of crooked lawyers, after all.
Regardless,ODN has again born fruit, with several formerly prominent advertisers, Discover Card especially, now absent from Gawker's network.
The boss has entered a new form, and he's got HP regeneration this time. You know what to do.