Which type of ads do you prefer

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Which type of ads do you prefer

Post by alex.barylski »

It's obvious text ads work, but maybe only when you have a massive amount of volume...as their are millions of sites which still offer up huge Flash ads, etc...

I personally prefer neither, but I always used Google because it was fast and the answers were obvious and it's accuracy was nice.

As a end user which ads do you prefer Flash/Image ads or text based?

I'm thinking most advertisers would prefer Flash/Image ads as their branding power is more obvious...

ANyone know of studies which I can use freely?

Links, etc???

Cheers :)
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

I can't stand flashing banners, they make me wanna puke. I'm a lot more likely to click a text ad than an image one.

There's no way I'd display image ads on my sites neither. Text only for me.
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Post by feyd »

Image ads are often easier to block. :)
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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

I like image ads the most. I don't pay attention to text ads (and since I've been on both sides of the field, knowing ads are there is a good thing for the site owner), and I HATTTTTTE flash ads.
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Post by Roja »

I block almost all ads. Text ads are somewhat more difficult to block, so they occasionally sneak past, but I cannot remember a time in the last four years (since I found ad blocking) I have ever clicked an ad on the internet on purpose.
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Post by alex.barylski »

feyd wrote:Image ads are often easier to block. :)
Oh dude...I can't believe you'd say that :P

Your just harming "free" interenet in the long run...I mean I'm a believer in a "users" Internet but also I understand why advertising exists, as most content, etc is free of charge :)

Shame on you for blocking ads Feyd :lol:

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Post by alex.barylski »

Roja wrote:I block almost all ads. Text ads are somewhat more difficult to block, so they occasionally sneak past, but I cannot remember a time in the last four years (since I found ad blocking) I have ever clicked an ad on the internet on purpose.
You too...shame shame... :lol:

Mr. free speech, open source, accesability advocate himself...blocks ads... :?

I know none of those have anything to do with advertising...as I can't say myself that I have *ever* bought anything from clicking on a ad banner (although I have visited some sites and considered buying)...

The Internet relies almost entirely on advertising...

Web sites like this one...I fail to see why it exists or rather how...who pays for the bandwidth? The Maintenance, etc???

It comes out of someones pocket and I'm glad it ain't mine... :P

Nothing will ever be *free* so why pretend like it is???

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Post by alex.barylski »

I suppose the positive that comes out of this...is it's made me re-evaluate how to display ads...

Requires a built in ad banner system...

Although I wonder the usefulness behind preventing ad blocking...as those who refuse to even have ads displayed are likely NOT going to buy anything or click on links anyways...

But buying decisions are impulsive...you don't even know half the time when you've been subjected to advertising...it attacks your sub-conscience...thats what branding is all about...

So I guess as long as you seen a message period...it's likely going to affect your buying habits anyways...

And if you try and fight it...the more likely their message will stay in your head...so really it's a win-win for the business :P

Interesting...

Anyone have any ideas on how they can prevent ad blockers from doing their thing?

I suspect they work on the following ideas:
1) Advertisments will be Flash/Images
2) link to external sources
3) open new windows

Intelligent ad blockers will likley learn where a window is redirected in the case of a click...so you you redirected to some random location on your own server each time, that should do the trick

Some blockers I imagine, let you customize the HTML of visted pages...so you simply click the Flash/Images you never want displayed again and voila!!! No more advertisments...

The way to solve this would be to randomize Flash/Images inside tables of data, so no fixed row can be removed...First time displayed inside first column, next is thrid from the bottom and so on... :P

As for fixed ad banners...like towers which reside in a fixed location...

I guess...you SOL...

I wonder if you could test for a cookie being set and if the cookie or SID was not allowed (creating a session) the you could reject the user from seeing anything...

This way you could track the users actions...checking if Flash clips had indeed been displayed and if not...again chock that SID and display nothing...

Could the user write a custom popup blocker that just requested new SID's each page refresh...to get around blocking based on SID's

I would imagine so...in which case...again I'm SOL as requiring a SID to be used X number of times doesn't make sense...

I suppose randomization of ad locations is the only viable solution...and some sort of cloaking of the advertisments...no external URL's don't open directly in new window, don't redirect to a fixed URL internally....

Having covered those grounds...I think it's safe to assume that would prevent most popup blocker software...unless a popup blocker program was really smart and tested for the above and reacted accordingly...

The trick is to figure out what identifies as an advertisment and remove those identities so an adbanner looks just like a an normal image...same goes for links, etc...

A popup blocker would have to assume all links were ads and all images were ads, in which case...yielding a fairly useless HTML page in the end :)

Anyone have any other ideas? To combat popup blocking that is :)

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Post by matthijs »

Totally integrate the add into your page? If it's a hardcoded image and link, how can it ever be blocked?

Or better: make your complete page an add!!! :)

Remember those splash pages from the early 90's? "click here to visit our site"

Well, just use one of those. But then, instead of being directed to your super-interesting content people get redirected to your advertisers websites!! :) Brilliant, I claim copyright on that idea.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

matthijs wrote:Totally integrate the add into your page? If it's a hardcoded image and link, how can it ever be blocked?

Or better: make your complete page an add!!! :)

Remember those splash pages from the early 90's? "click here to visit our site"

Well, just use one of those. But then, instead of being directed to your super-interesting content people get redirected to your advertisers websites!! :) Brilliant, I claim copyright on that idea.
And if you really want to leave a good lasting impression of your company generate a popup which when closed generates two more of that popup, which each in turn upon closing generate two more each. It's binary advertising :P
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Sweet, exponential destruction of a users computer and name recognition to boot.
"My cousin Farley dun tole me dat wun dem days he dun oped him campooter and sumgun dun popped all over heem. He say he dun went to 'Tables wit laygs dut com' er sumpin."
Seriously, I like text ads. They are a lot less visually invasive, they blend well with surroundings, don't kill load times, aren't dependant on another server's ability to serve them and are just plain nicer in my opinion.

As for blocking ads, well, the internet is the ultimate arena for freedom of choice. Some choose to block the ads, others not. Both of these users are totally within their rights as users of the internet and both of them are right for doing so.

There... that is my political contribution for the day. Now let's get on with the ad discussion...
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Post by Grim... »

My ad blocker (adblock plus) has suddenly stopped working on FF1.5.04 - which one do you guys use?
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Post by JayBird »

Hockey wrote:Web sites like this one...I fail to see why it exists or rather how...who pays for the bandwidth? The Maintenance, etc???

It comes out of someones pocket and I'm glad it ain't mine... :P

Nothing will ever be *free* so why pretend like it is???
Our bandwidth and server is free ;)

I think you asked this question the wrong board TBH. The kind of poeple that are most susceptible to banner advertising are not the "techy" type, like users here who are aware of the tricks of the trade to entice you to click, and software to block ads.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

Or better: make your complete page an add!!!
Go hey...
I block almost all ads. Text ads are somewhat more difficult to block, so they occasionally sneak past, but I cannot remember a time in the last four years (since I found ad blocking) I have ever clicked an ad on the internet on purpose.
It's a numbers game. Advertising is like spamming. When you rely on that one click from who know's how many page views, addressing the mini population of ad-blockers looks worthless. Advertising is therefore predictable, same way most spam is. It's easy to block most of it, and probably just as easy to get around a blocker (not that I've tried or even checked - I'm assuming which is dangerous and may earn me a slapping...:))

I employ ads in a few places. My simple reasoning is that the websites it's put on are thrown up on the internet for free, at my own personal cost. If visitors click a few text ads from time to time and it reduces the cost somewhat from the revenue, then fair play to me.
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Post by shiznatix »

where is the poll option of "i don't like ads"?
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