Push Advertising + HTML = &*%^ing Pop-Up Windows Jeff Davis | Vent Section
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Ah, the digital age. All that great information is right at your fingertips, waiting for you to buy the newest e-book, compare stocks, search for information for Geography class, or find hot.uh.you know. With all this Internet traffic, advertisers have found a new way to reach consumers. While being graphically and technically advanced, "pop-up" ads are one thing that is both a detriment and a blessing for businesses: Annoying.
No matter what site you go to, Yahoo!, The Onion, whatever-there are pop-ups everywhere. From my own personal experience, these ads are usually for things like debt consolidation, mortgages, credit cards and things of a financial nature. Other times they're for contests, a new software product, or a vehicle.
Regardless of the information they convey, these ads are simply a nuisance, and this can be both good and bad. Let's look at the bad first. Sometimes when you close one of these ads out, two more pop up in its place, hence the name. They appear when you first log onto a site, and reappear when you hit the "Back" command and return to the site. One for JobsOnline appeared on the RU site today.
This can be good for business, though. The entire psychology, well, most of it anyway, of advertising is to get a product or service in a potential customer's head. It's working on me: here I am going on and on about these horrible pop-up ads, but I know what kinds of products and services they promote, and which sites I can go to for more information. They stay in my head like a cheesy jingle for a furniture warehouse. If people say they are wholly uninfluenced by the media, they're lying through their teeth.
Times like these are where I am grateful Whim cannot advertise on the state server. I know that pop-up ads have their purpose, but I know of more people who hate them than laud them. We'd lose a lot of readers if we had pop-ups on here.
You know, not enough people read Whim. We should think about putting pop-ups on some sites...
What do you think?
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Name:Aaron Comments:
Over the past month I have seen a dramtic number of pop-up ads occuring. Before when you went to yahoo you hardly ever saw a pop-up ad, but now everytime you go you are guarunteed one. I also think the fact that Radford is making money off it is absurd. I know Radford isn't exactly in the best financial situations, but it should be illegal for any government funded website to allow any type of ads on their sites. These webpages should be for one purpose (the same thing the internet was made for) to provide information, not annoy the hell out of you and make you wonder what will be next. Why doesn't Radford just not flood our mailboxes with a whole bunch of junk mail, OHHH WAIT they already do, or perhaps they could just rip you off in every way by creating a monopoly on campus, I think the campus should allow non-governmental businesses to have a few resturants on campus (they could put them in that huge building Radford can't afford that they are building), maybe then we would see some competetion and prices would come down to small town prices instead of the New York airport prices. Well I could go on and on with how Radford is just trying ot make a buck when it should be a learning institution without the hinderance in the sidewalks, such as the credit card companies handing out free things for a credit card that has 500% interest. Unfortunetely these things happen at all colleges and all they are for is to make money, but shouldn't it be the objective of every istitution for higher education to give us the best education possible? Do they?
Name: Nicole Sitler Year: 2001 Major: media studies Comments:
A pop up music video does sound better than a pop up ad:) what happened to those pop up books? I could use that for English class;)
Name: Steve's Attorneys Comments:
As Steve Glassbrenner's legal counsel we'd like to deny any and all rumors of midget consumption. Those allegations are false, malicious and degrading. That said, also being the legal counsel to the midgets involved our clients would like to say that (and I quote) "A good time was had by all!"
Name: jen Comments:
you could also just turn off javascript for a while
Name: Wintermute Comments:
Or better yet, "The Whim Staffers put this issue up and then said 'Weeeeee!' So how about it Whim? :)
Name: Wintermute Comments:
Maybe you guys could do a "Pop-Up" Edition of Whim, kinda like "Pop-Up" video on VH1. Little windows could pop up telling you what went into this week's editon of Whim. Example: "Steve Glassbrenner created this week's comic strip after consuming a steady supply of Mountain Dew and midgets."
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Poo Burns would like to comment that "Doom" likes to refer to himself in the third person an awful lot. Poo Burns would like to kindly suggest that it is not a sign of good mental health!
Name: Dr. Doom Comments:
BAH! Once Doom has crushed the accursed Reed Richards under his iron heel, Doom shall chain Jeff Davis to a computer and make him endure many lifetimes of pop-up windows (from Doom's website of course). Doom shall make an example and show the world that Doom is not to be trifled with. So swears...DOOM!
Name: Shaun Year: Grad Major: English Comments:
Brandon that's cold! :)
Name: jen Comments:
popup ads are annoying with a capital A
Name: brandon Comments:
one day, i had so many pop ups come up when i visited a site, i started to pop up out of my chair. hahahahaha. i crack myself up.
