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  • #1

    I Hate dancing ads

    I have come across the final straw in my web tolerance hat...the dancing ad that intrudes on so many sites these days.

    I'm sure you've seen them. You go to a site and are greeted by an animation that takes up the whole screen and you have to find the hidden "X" to close it.

    and usually they don't appear until after a few seconds when you have gotten into looking thru the site for something!!!

    I went to Roger Ebert's site to look up a review and this ***** starting dancing all over the screen in a sad attempt to sell something. I don't even remember what it was because all I could see was RED...and I scrambled for the "x".


    My real question is: Does any advertiser actually think this is a good move??

    If this happens to me, all that pops into my head is "I VOW to NEVER buy this scumbags product".

    How can anyone think that crowbarring into your life , in an unexpected moment, is going to sell your product?

    my guess is that it pisses off more people than it lures.
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    maybe the goal is to get people to recognize the name... even if the ad pisses you off, you still get name or product recognition because the ad is so annoying..

    I dunno..

    Ming would know better.
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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    • #3
      but the thing is, I totally ignore it and go for the x before I even know what the ad is advertising.

      so, it fails.

      And if I did get the name, unless I absolutely needed the product and no alternative was available, I would remember my anger and not buy it.
      While there might be a physics engine that applies to the jugs, I doubt that an entire engine was written specifically for the funbags. - Cyclotron - debating the pressing issue of boobies in games.

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      • #4
        I bet your subconscious mind picks it up no matter what.
        To us, it is the BEAST.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by vee4473
          but the thing is, I totally ignore it and go for the x before I even know what the ad is advertising.

          so, it fails.

          And if I did get the name, unless I absolutely needed the product and no alternative was available, I would remember my anger and not buy it.
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          • #6
            If a site opens and you don't see how to close it: Alt+F4.

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            • #7
              Vett, i'm talking about those ghostly animations that run across the screen, not a separate window that pops up.

              Those I can handle. The ads I am talking about are like stealth bombers.
              While there might be a physics engine that applies to the jugs, I doubt that an entire engine was written specifically for the funbags. - Cyclotron - debating the pressing issue of boobies in games.

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              • #8
                Aaah, the floating ones? Yeah, disgusting!

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                • #9


                  Oh come on, this thread was asking for it.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by VetLegion
                    Aaah, the floating ones? Yeah, disgusting!
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                    • #11
                      Business men and women don't know how to reach out to people.

                      So they hire marketeers. But they have to be like businessmen/women, and so fail to reach out to people.

                      And so they create a creative department and place artists in there, who know how to reach out to the people.


                      The business man/woman will give the marketeer his/her most amazing idea (floating ads for example), the marketeer, sucking up to the boss, will agree and tell the artist TO DO IT.

                      The artist will shake his/her head, and 5 out of 10 will be brave enough to say this is a bad idea, 1 out of those 5 will give a reason.

                      But once all is said and done, the bosses idea will pass through, and the entire 'reaching out mission' fails and backfires.

                      My gf see's this almost everyday (she is the artist); in my job however, (I am also in the creative department), I have full power, so I am quick to tell my boss NO, BAD IDEA, and suggest another one, which he will submit to. He will submit, because there is no one (marketeers) in between me and the boss.
                      The company I am in is doing very well, the company my gf is in, is having daily troubles.

                      So it's all the marketeers fault.
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                      • #12
                        Re: I Hate dancing ads

                        Originally posted by vee4473
                        If this happens to me, all that pops into my head is "I VOW to NEVER buy this scumbags product".
                        My thoughts exactly.
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                        • #13
                          What ads?
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                          • #14
                            You may think you will never buy it, but the statistics show otherwise. Even a bad commercial is better than no commercial - companies know it and live by it.

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                            • #15
                              Oh ambassador, you are spoiling us.
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