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Ramblings

by Mike Masnick

Wed, Oct 17th 2001 10:53am





Online Advertising Needs To Get Better

from the of-course-it-does dept

A column explaining to companies that advertise online that they're killing their own audiences. Since advertising is so bad, so annoying, and so intrusive, people are getting pissed off and ignoring the ads (or blocking them out completely). If the ads, instead, actually provided some sort of value to the end user, then advertisers (and companies that supported themselves on advertising) might not be in such bad shape. This makes sense, of course, but it requires some careful planning on the part of companies - and why plan stuff out when you can just buy annoying pop up ads and have a huge (but useless) traffic boost that you can show your boss?

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    Burghy, Oct 17th, 2001 @ 1:05pm

    I think that you're over-estimating the sophistication level of many internet users. While those of us who stay tuned to the technology world view pop-ups as stupid, annoying advertisements, the sad fact is that many "newbies" appreciate pop-under advertisements and think they are "innovative".

    I don't have any hard data at all to back up my point, though. This is strictly from personal observance.

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    mdr, Oct 17th, 2001 @ 5:59pm

    au contraire, i do user research for a living, and i have never once come across a newbie who believed pop-ups are 'innovative.' the general consensus among the novices i've studied is that pop-ups are stupid and interfering; the content of the pop-ups plays a large part in these perceptions.

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