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BBC News: TV-style ads to hog your bandwidth.

Started by steevbishop, February 03, 2004, 03:04:48 PM

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Voting closed: February 03, 2004, 03:04:48 PM

steevbishop

"With the increasing commercialisation of the internet has come an explosion in advertising. Most people have got used to filtering out the sales pitches in the search for useful information.  

But 30 second-long TV ads that appear at random whenever you click on certain websites, will be harder to ignore than pop-up ads. Unicast's Video Commercial is a full screen online ad format that plays a 2MB, 30 second, broadcast quality video, regardless of connection speed. The format is based on Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series and uses Unicast proprietary pre-cached technology. "

Not on my bandwidth you don't

Frinky

QuoteBut it is something net users all going to have to get used to, says Unicast.

"There is an inherent need for consumers to become accustomed to something habitual online, in the same way they are accustomed for every 30 minutes of a TV programme to have seven minutes of adverts," said Ms Savarino.

Wooooooah there, lass. This isn't on at all.

smoker

i've seen similar on the guardian website and they're FUCKING annoying

Speciality meat product

2MB - that's 5 minutes on a modem. They'd get so many complaints they'd turn it off instantly.

I look at the autoexpress website quite often, and that has a ridiculous amount of annoying adverts on it, but at least you can close them down and carry on reading.

The internet doesn't need advertising to survive, like TV does. If they put adverts on my favourite websites, i'll just go somewhere else.

steevbishop

Quote from: "Mr Greedy"The internet doesn't need advertising to survive, like TV does. If they put adverts on my favourite websites, i'll just go somewhere else.

Very true, they're going to learn the hard way. Without a massive knowledge of internet, and internet advertising, history I'm going to blame the cocks who thought .COM was going to strike them gold. It must've driven up bandwidth costs as well as making a million webmasters (hawr) cream to the dream of their site making easy cash, plough it with ads and then have to close down because they couldn't afford it anymore. I've lost count of the fun little sites I used to visit that closed due to cost, and I'm losing count of the ones I visit now which slowly have more banners and pop-ups. Thank Christ for blockers.

Ultimately those behind popular websites are victims of their own success.

Read this nifty article "What's that banner space in the        window worth?" about the online turf war between UGO and IGN that ended up nowhere, for an revealing insight into advertising online.

JesusAndYourBush

Quote from: "steevbishop"
Unicast's Video Commercial is a full screen online ad format that plays a 2MB, 30 second, broadcast quality video, regardless of connection speed.
And I'd promptly close the page and never visit their shoddy little site again.

I'm already pissed off with those java things that kind-of hover over the page, usually over the piece of text you're trying to read, and some of them don't have a close button.

Vermschneid Mehearties

Do the good and honest thing, and start a mass sending of adverts to their email address, rendering their entire network defunct. That'll teach the twats.

The way the internet has developed, I don't think it'll ever turn into such a medium as plagued by adverts as TV. Most banners you see barely register any more, and pop up adverts have you reaching for the click button faster than you can say "Fuck off."

gazzyk1ns

QuoteBut it is something net users all going to have to get used to, says Unicast.

"There is an inherent need for consumers to become accustomed to something habitual online, in the same way they are accustomed for every 30 minutes of a TV programme to have seven minutes of adverts," said Ms Savarino.

I know Frinky's already quoted it... but Jesus, the arrogance of that! "We make money from ads so we insist that everyone will just have to get used to it, there's no two ways about it." I can't think that will win much sympathy or tolerance from anyone... good.

I don't want to sound like some pipe-sucking old man, but the net is just terrible for ads and related shite these days, isn't it? Most sites have popups and every third site I go to has Spybot S&D telling me it's about to block some more ad/spy/malware. I have all third party cookies set to be blocked but still when I run Ad-aware every few days there are a couple of tracking cookies/data miners in there. Not the end of the world, but still... I'm getting fed up with it. The net is becoming what it originally set out to be the "opposite" of, i.e. pay/subscribe for everything, ads round every corner... it's ruining the whole thing and something needs to be done. Unfortunately, the more people who pay for shite quality MP3s, or for a Commodore-64 quality pool tournament,  reply to spam/click banners endlessly etc etc, the more companies realise that they can get away with it and that they must try to do it - otherwise their competition will.

JesusAndYourBush

Quote from: "gazzyk1ns"I have all third party cookies set to be blocked but still when I run Ad-aware every few days there are a couple of tracking cookies/data miners in there. Not the end of the world, but still... I'm getting fed up with it.
This afternoon I had a look at my cookies.  I had 1500 of the buggers!  I saved the messageboard cookies by copying them into another folder.  Then I deleted all my cookies and the bastards came back.  Deleted them from dos and they were gone, but it didn't like the copied cookies, so I spent the next half hour logging into all my messageboards and whatnot, then exported the cookies so I can reinstate them if I ever have to nuke 1500 of them again.

Is there an easy way to block all the unnecessary shitty cookies and only allow the ones I actually need - those with login info for messageboards and the like?

EDIT: Never mind, I changed internet options-privacy to high, added the names of all the messageboards and stuff to trusted sites, and Bob's your uncle.

Neil

Many thanks to whoever it was that mentioned the Google Toolbars pop-up stopper!  It's done 499 for me in a matter of weeks, well worth getting.