This is a suggestion that's might help everybody get a bit more of what they want.

Frequently I'll open up the UMD site and on the home page with all of the thumbnails for different sites, a certain image or two will catch my eye, and I'll want to know "How can I see more of that? Which video is that?" And I'll click through to try to find it. Some sites are small enough that I can go through each video to find it. Some producers are so prolific that it seems impossible.

I don't know what the best way to address this would be, maybe having that thumbnail on the target page of the link that you can click to go to that video perhaps. There may be much more elegant ways to do ithat I have not thought about.

Below are a few of the thumbnails I saw that I haven't been able to find the full version of.

Thank you everybody.

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That's an excellent point. I've had the same experience.

Keep in mind that for each website ad, there can be 10 or more different thumbnails that rotate each time the ad is displayed. You cannot set a different destination link for each thumbnail. You can only link to the main website that the ad is set up for.

Your best bet is to copy the thumbnail, follow the link, and email the site operator to find out where the image came from.

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I just checked and each ad can have up to 30 different rotating images

I realize it's not necessarily a straight forward process whether working on the website side (maybe not even possible with some platforms, I don't know what UMD is on, nor would I ask for security reasons.) or on the target site. If the producer uses all 30 slots their options may be clunky, but there may be some solution that neither of us would think of. They're the ones that stand to gain that extra bit of business.

They can decide if the hassle is worth it or not. I just wanted them to be aware.

The format of the Featured Sites section does have the appearance of being a small gallery. So clicking the thumbs and not quickly seeing the large version of the pic (or the set it's from) can be a little misleading.

Each webmaster has 30 banner/image slots for each ad they create, and when clicked, any one of them will always lead you to the homepage of the site they advertise. It's all fair game as long as the content actually is on the site somewhere, but it can get inconvenient if you just wanna find that pic set. And I have built no true way for webmasters to control where the traffic ultimately goes from clicking on their banner.

A solution would be for me to allow one url to be assigned to every banner image. If left blank, traffic would go to the default URL, but otherwise it would go to whatever URL the webmaster specifies.

So webmasters, how would you feel about this option? Would it even get used? The only way this problem could get fixed is if webmasters took part in this solution by adding the urls....

MM

I have no input to add other than the photo set from that middle pic is available at my site, there is no video!

Could each ad image have an associated 'mouse over' text pop up? (one line)
Then the producer could either put his website name, the name of the video/image package or simply nothing.

Perhaps in the ad setup, you could select 'upon mouseover'... nothing, website url, video url or text.

Just a thought