You go on a webpage for whatever reason and you see flashy banner ads. Do you click on them or pretend like they aren't there. If you click have you purchased, followed instructions etc from that ad?
I don't think I have ever clicked on something and actually followed the link and have purchase or followed through what it was advertising. So pretty much it doesn't really work for me. Just wondering if anyone else actually buys into the ad.
Oct-21-2008 02:21
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Firefox + Adblock Plus = win at the internet
Oct-21-2008 02:25
Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Firefox + Adblock Plus = win at the internet
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
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Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Last edited by Yohan on Oct-21-2008 at 03:02
Oct-21-2008 02:27
DigiNut
You kids get off my lawn!
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe
I've never clicked on one, no. But then these ads cost nothing to run, so they're built around the expectation of maybe a .1% conversion rate if that.
Are you asking because you're thinking of advertising this way, or because you're curious as to how they make money?
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Originally posted by VERTiG0
Firefox + Adblock Plus = win at the internet
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Oct-21-2008 03:18
Dior Homme
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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Paris
quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
Are you asking because you're thinking of advertising this way, or because you're curious as to how they make money?
No I have no desire to invest into the idea. I was just wondering if people actually used it. I was just on msn.com after logging out of hotmail and saw 3 different ads that pop onto my screen. TSN.ca has the same thing expect there are these flash ads that you have to find where the close button is located.
I never had an interest in these ads, but then again my interests are generally different than I know. So I figured, people might click on them....
By the way, to those people answering to Firefox, im not talking pop ups... im talking about the rectangular ads that you find usually on the top, or sides of a webpage. Those kind of ads you can't block.
Oct-21-2008 03:24
DigiNut
You kids get off my lawn!
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe
quote:
Originally posted by Dior Homme
Those kind of ads you can't block.
Yes. Yes you can.
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Oct-21-2008 03:29
Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
quote:
Originally posted by Dior Homme
By the way, to those people answering to Firefox, im not talking pop ups... im talking about the rectangular ads that you find usually on the top, or sides of a webpage. Those kind of ads you can't block.
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
quote:
Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Oct-21-2008 03:34
Owen M
nightdreamer...
Registered: May 2005
Location: The Hammer (Hamilton, Ontario)/ Calgary Alberta
I find those ads really really annoying, especially when it keeps poping out over something I'm trying to read.
I think they do it for general "brand awareness" and not so much of trying to monetize my internet actions.
It's mostly big "life style & entertainment" companies/products, like fashion, alcohol, movies using them...or atleast from what I've noticed. Maybe thats because the nature of the websites I visit???...I dunno.
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I used to click on the fart button.
lol.
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Oct-21-2008 11:06
exstasie
Hack Attack
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto/Sauga, Canada
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Originally posted by Yohan
get no script!
******** is probably the best thing you can get.
PS. If you stop going to so many porn sites maybe you're computer won't get infected by all of those popups.
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Last edited by exstasie on Oct-21-2008 at 12:32
Oct-21-2008 12:02
dEsidEL
Fu Man Choonz
Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Below the Belt
quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Firefox + Adblock Plus = win at the internet
+1
+ no script
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