Flash ads suck

[Trekker4747]

Yeah, but what about all the sites that use flash as part of their content? Which is to say, about 99% of them. I like flash for the most part. It never causes me any problems, besides with the ads.

Exactly. Disabling Flash is like disabling, oh, .JPGs. It'll neuter a huge precentage of the sites you visit.

Oh and, ahem,...

ELECTRICAL SUPERSTORMS!!!!

 

[sojourner]

Isn't this thread against board rules?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Isn't this thread against board rules?

I don't think so. Disabling Flash isn't like some obscure hack. Most people know about it. And it is not an ad killer. Ads can still show up, even without flash.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I've never understood it either. I think it actually accomplishes the opposite of what they're going for. When I see ads that do that to me, it makes me never want to buy anything from them again.

If you make something memorable and worthy of telling others - preferably positively but also negatively - you get others to do your work for you.

When we talk about the worst commercials, songs, movies, what have you, while most of us would agree and avoid them, there's always someone who might like it or just want to check it out for themselves. People often see or rent movies that are universally panned hoping for the "so bad it's good" comedic factor.

How many people are still talking about the bad ads here years later (Trekker brought up "Electrical Superstorms!" for example)? How many still discuss trolls who have been long gone from the board? When you hear about it second or third hand, you're not going to share the same annoyance the person who directly experienced it did, so your curiosity might be piqued to see it for yourself, thus making you a potential new customer. Or you might not fully understand the reference as the story gets passed down and bits are forgotten, so you look it up.

It falls under the "any publicity is good publicity" idea, which doesn't always work and can backfire of course, but still holds true a lot of the time in marketing.

 

[Sephiroth]

Isn't this thread against board rules?

nope, were discussing internet ads in general, not the ones here specificialy

 

[RobertVA]

Internet ads in general suck. I'm not a fan of advertisements, but the Internet seems to attract the worst of the worst, especially on sites that play those nonskippable ads before videos. They not only play the same ads before each and every video, the ads are the most annoying ones you can find.

If I ever see or hear "who broke the copier copier copier" again I'm gonna puke!

For me it's a trio of ads for an online data backup company. I've seen laptops run over by a lawn mower, microwaved and crushed by a falling kitchen range much too many times!

And what are the odds of a laptop getting crushed by a falling major household appliance while resting on a table in the middle of the lawn?

 

[Trekker4747]

It falls under the "any publicity is good publicity" idea, which doesn't always work and can backfire of course, but still holds true a lot of the time in marketing.

Yeah, but remembering a bad ad hardly equates to being "good" as it may at time deter people from using the product or service.

And as far as flash-ads go that disrupt the functionality or use of a website? That's just asanine. IIRC there was a cable-channel ad during a syndicated rerun where they actualy paused the show that was on when a banner-ad came up and the star of the show came on to advertise his program and then he unpaused the show and left the screen.

That kind of stuff is just asanine.