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Not the game thing whereby houses suddenly appear and previously invisible mountains hove into sight.
I'm talking about pop-up ads.
Those nasty little things that.er..pop-op whenever you visit some sites.
2 of my favourite sites now have these as a means of generating revenue.
Except, every single person on the forums are complaining.
Rightfully so.
I detest pop-up ads. I loathe advertising anyway, but recognise it as a necessary evil.
However, when I am faced with promotional windows that appear whether I want them to or not, then it galls me.
I'm glad SR don't use these, and I pray they don't do.
Because, far from generation revenue, a lot of people choose to not visit that site anymore.
I can no longer visit one site, and whenever I go there, 4 seperate windows open up that I have to close.
I'd rather go somewhere else than have garish adverts on my computer, thankyouverybloodymuch.
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing, you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it, advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
Here's an idea, if I am interested in a product, I will search it out. Do not subject me to forced advertising or I'm going somewhere else.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
I'm talking about pop-up ads.
Those nasty little things that.er..pop-op whenever you visit some sites.
2 of my favourite sites now have these as a means of generating revenue.
Except, every single person on the forums are complaining.
Rightfully so.
I detest pop-up ads. I loathe advertising anyway, but recognise it as a necessary evil.
However, when I am faced with promotional windows that appear whether I want them to or not, then it galls me.
I'm glad SR don't use these, and I pray they don't do.
Because, far from generation revenue, a lot of people choose to not visit that site anymore.
I can no longer visit one site, and whenever I go there, 4 seperate windows open up that I have to close.
I'd rather go somewhere else than have garish adverts on my computer, thankyouverybloodymuch.
Imagine if your TV had a similar thing, you left the room to make a cuppa and ads appeared on your kettle and on the side of the fridge.
You'd get fed up with it, advertisers chasing you and making you sit and watch them.
Here's an idea, if I am interested in a product, I will search it out. Do not subject me to forced advertising or I'm going somewhere else.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Again.
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One question: Are pop up adds a feature of the Future of Gaming?
NiGHTS!
NiGHTS!
Yes advertising is irrating whatever form. I especially hate the pops up that come on every single page you view - very annoying...
Ok so they are trying to advertise and make a living. (I know this is totally unrelated to gaming and you can move it to the life etc.. forums, but I want to discuss advertising by the big brands.)
For example - Coca Cola and McDonalds. Two very established businesses that everyone knows about and they are rolling in money. Yet.. they still advertise. Why? They are not selling anything new. They do not need the money as basically everyone in the country they are aiming at knows about them. When I go into a restuarant I ask for "a Coke please" (Coke being the short of Coca Cola). I don't ask for a cola as Coca Cola is such a famous brand that has had an impact on me in the form of advertising. So have several other brands. Yet they still are spending something in the region of millions of pounds on advertising. Why? Do they have no idea what to do with their money and think "lets make an advert for the sake of it. It won't boost our sales but what the heck lets do it!"
Really... the aims of advertising are to:
1) inform people about a product
2) sell a product
Coca Cola for example does not need to inform people (As everyone has heard of it) and does not need to sell a product (they are making millions a day!) So why do they advertise?
They are literally throwing away money. From "The Guardian" written Monday March 26, 2001 I discovered...
"Coca-Cola intends to spend £350m more on marketing its brands this year than originally planned."
£350 million... that is one heck of an amount of money. Think what could be done with that money. The stunts in the movie titanic cost £24.5 million to master which is bad enough.. but 350 million is more than 14 times as much! Think what could have been done with that amount of money. It maybe could have supplied a small starving African country with enough food to last them several years. Yet instead it's going to help Coca Cola advertise.. er I mean.. make unnecessary adverts that we will forget within several weeks maybe days. Fair? No. A waste? Yes.
Well thats greedy businesses for you. So fine advertise your site if you really need to but if I ever see a Coca Cola pop up advert or sponsoring an event I will personally go mental. Stop sponsoring world cups and do something that can help the world.
Thanks for reading
Ok so they are trying to advertise and make a living. (I know this is totally unrelated to gaming and you can move it to the life etc.. forums, but I want to discuss advertising by the big brands.)
For example - Coca Cola and McDonalds. Two very established businesses that everyone knows about and they are rolling in money. Yet.. they still advertise. Why? They are not selling anything new. They do not need the money as basically everyone in the country they are aiming at knows about them. When I go into a restuarant I ask for "a Coke please" (Coke being the short of Coca Cola). I don't ask for a cola as Coca Cola is such a famous brand that has had an impact on me in the form of advertising. So have several other brands. Yet they still are spending something in the region of millions of pounds on advertising. Why? Do they have no idea what to do with their money and think "lets make an advert for the sake of it. It won't boost our sales but what the heck lets do it!"
Really... the aims of advertising are to:
1) inform people about a product
2) sell a product
Coca Cola for example does not need to inform people (As everyone has heard of it) and does not need to sell a product (they are making millions a day!) So why do they advertise?
They are literally throwing away money. From "The Guardian" written Monday March 26, 2001 I discovered...
"Coca-Cola intends to spend £350m more on marketing its brands this year than originally planned."
£350 million... that is one heck of an amount of money. Think what could be done with that money. The stunts in the movie titanic cost £24.5 million to master which is bad enough.. but 350 million is more than 14 times as much! Think what could have been done with that amount of money. It maybe could have supplied a small starving African country with enough food to last them several years. Yet instead it's going to help Coca Cola advertise.. er I mean.. make unnecessary adverts that we will forget within several weeks maybe days. Fair? No. A waste? Yes.
Well thats greedy businesses for you. So fine advertise your site if you really need to but if I ever see a Coca Cola pop up advert or sponsoring an event I will personally go mental. Stop sponsoring world cups and do something that can help the world.
Thanks for reading
You know why they do it though, right?
'Click-through' ads (like those on the SR site) only generate revenue if someone actually clicks on them.
The pop-up ads (can't recall the techie term) actually generate revenue for each time they're displayed - so for example if SR had one on the forum thread list page, they'd get money every time you went back to that area. (Please don't get any ideas, SR!)
One of the worst for this lately is IGN - every time you go to ps2.ign.com you get the bloody advert. I wouldn't mind as much if it appeared once a day and 'cookied' your machine so you didn't get it again that day. Added to that, they've tried using some flash Java in it, and every so often my IE crashes when the window appears! Yeah, that'll get them a lot of return visits!
Anyway, what I tend to do now is go to the main page, close the ad, and shift-click or "right-click-->open in new window" on the links - that way I don't have to keep going back to the main page and suffering the damn advert!
Sorry, rambled on a bit there... just that pop-up ads get me annoyed too...
'Click-through' ads (like those on the SR site) only generate revenue if someone actually clicks on them.
The pop-up ads (can't recall the techie term) actually generate revenue for each time they're displayed - so for example if SR had one on the forum thread list page, they'd get money every time you went back to that area. (Please don't get any ideas, SR!)
One of the worst for this lately is IGN - every time you go to ps2.ign.com you get the bloody advert. I wouldn't mind as much if it appeared once a day and 'cookied' your machine so you didn't get it again that day. Added to that, they've tried using some flash Java in it, and every so often my IE crashes when the window appears! Yeah, that'll get them a lot of return visits!
Anyway, what I tend to do now is go to the main page, close the ad, and shift-click or "right-click-->open in new window" on the links - that way I don't have to keep going back to the main page and suffering the damn advert!
Sorry, rambled on a bit there... just that pop-up ads get me annoyed too...
cookie monster wrote:
> Goatboy wrote:
> I dont want to punch the monkey and win,
>
No, its shoot the monkey and win, with a little laser gun. What
> i do is shoot the monkey, then i click the stop button on my
> browser, then i laugh at the fried face on the monkey, thats
> entertainment.
lmao, lol, lol! I'll have to try that! There is also poke the monkey, and punch the monkey. In poke the monkey, you poke a grandad monkey with a walking stick!
> Goatboy wrote:
> I dont want to punch the monkey and win,
>
No, its shoot the monkey and win, with a little laser gun. What
> i do is shoot the monkey, then i click the stop button on my
> browser, then i laugh at the fried face on the monkey, thats
> entertainment.
lmao, lol, lol! I'll have to try that! There is also poke the monkey, and punch the monkey. In poke the monkey, you poke a grandad monkey with a walking stick!
Goatboy wrote:
> I dont want to punch the monkey and win,
No, its shoot the monkey and win, with a little laser gun. What i do is shoot the monkey, then i click the stop button on my browser, then i laugh at the fried face on the monkey, thats entertainment.
> I dont want to punch the monkey and win,
No, its shoot the monkey and win, with a little laser gun. What i do is shoot the monkey, then i click the stop button on my browser, then i laugh at the fried face on the monkey, thats entertainment.
TheBest_2k1 wrote:
> YH, they would probably still make more money than a few low level
> banners, and more customers
I don't know all the ins and outs of the finances of it, so it could be you're right. BUT if they drive away all the regulars by having pop-up's then it won't do the actual site itself much good, surely?
I hate pop ups. I understand the reasons for advertising, they're there so you can go and make a quick drink in the middle of the film without missing anything!
> YH, they would probably still make more money than a few low level
> banners, and more customers
I don't know all the ins and outs of the finances of it, so it could be you're right. BUT if they drive away all the regulars by having pop-up's then it won't do the actual site itself much good, surely?
I hate pop ups. I understand the reasons for advertising, they're there so you can go and make a quick drink in the middle of the film without missing anything!
Thing is though, who actually reads the popups?
Everyone I know just closes them, because they advertise nothing of interest.
I dont want a loan,I dont want to punch the monkey and win, I dont care about cheap American Cars.
Just crap I have to close before I read what I want to.
No thanks
Everyone I know just closes them, because they advertise nothing of interest.
I dont want a loan,I dont want to punch the monkey and win, I dont care about cheap American Cars.
Just crap I have to close before I read what I want to.
No thanks
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