Popup ads. Why bother?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
why sites still persist with pop-up ads
Well....I think the typical moronic marketing/advertisement people might have something to do with that.
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I don't think the marketing/advertising people are stupid; they just target stupid people.
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I don't think the marketing/advertising people are stupid; they just target stupid people.
Well, some of the ones I have met over the years haven't been exactly the sharpest tools in the shed...Though there has been one or two exceptions.
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
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Why do so many websites bother with so many ads? When a larger area of the page is covered with ads than the actual content, then you have problems - infact shut the site down and save everyone the bother. Also, ads in the middle of paragraphs, I don't mean after one and before the next either, I'm talking mid-sentence here.
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Add popup adds to codeproject and you'll see how many times it gets clicked :)
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
They aren't popups - they are targetted interstitial campaigns, so that's all right then.
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
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They aren't popups - they are targetted interstitial campaigns, so that's all right then.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
Judah Himango wrote:
outdated browsers such as IE6
You call IE6 a browser? It's just a program that lets you download and install FireFox :)
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Targeted intestinal campaigns?
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Trollslayer wrote:
Targeted intestinal campaigns?
Torturous intestinal campaigns.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
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Judah Himango wrote:
outdated browsers such as IE6
You call IE6 a browser? It's just a program that lets you download and install FireFox :)
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:laugh: That is why it comes with Windows XP.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
Judah Himango wrote:
I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
there are a lot of DoD folks forbidden from running anything but IE6, regardless of the user's knowledge of problems therein.
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I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
If popups generate a high-enough rate of response/clicks, they continue to be used, just like with any other form of advertisement. So, despite the fact that the majority of modern browsers come equipped with some sort of popup-blocking feature, people are still finding ways to click on them.
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Judah Himango wrote:
I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
there are a lot of DoD folks forbidden from running anything but IE6, regardless of the user's knowledge of problems therein.
El Corazon wrote:
there are a lot of DoD folks forbidden from running anything but IE6
Ditto FAA. :sigh:
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I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
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El Corazon wrote:
there are a lot of DoD folks forbidden from running anything but IE6
Ditto FAA. :sigh:
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Advertisors aren't stupid. they do it for a reason. Even most of u say popup's blobled in most browsers. But, there are many many of they, who use those large stock market windows(opened as window.open, fullscreen) many of custom softwares of lottery business, and other 3rd party softwares, which eases work and way for many of them. Advertisors target them. Bcos they want to earn and medium is internet. regards ravifree
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I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
i agree popups are useless now. to achieve the same result and not be blocked: javascript animated css divs which are nasty as they cover the content you want to read. and content with inline ads as a previous poster mentioned.
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BonshatS wrote:
Shhh! They'll hear you and think of something more intrusive and obnoxious.
They already have: Gateway pages that won't let you enter unless you do what they want. Yesterday, I clicked a link to go deeper into a site, and the linked page was overridden by a page insisting that the page needed Firefox to be able to load. It did the same thing with all links. Suspicious that this could be something to do with exploits in Fox that IE doesn't suffer from, I fired up Firefox in a VM, went to the page, got the actual, unredirected address, and opened it in IE. Needless to say, it opened fine. I think we've got a lot of that sort of crap to look froward to. Open-source evangelists will find ways to make it "useful", and marketers will happily pick up the torch. I shouldn't have too much trouble finding the site again, if anyone wants to see the future of pains in the arse; I was searching for a TV show called "The Strangerer", and there wern't too many results.
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I bet there are still a lot of ordinary folks who're running outdated browsers such as IE6.
IE6 on XP SP2 has a popup blocker. I don't know how much work was done on it between IE6 and IE7. HitsLink's market share site (actually usage share, measured by aggregated hits on their analytics customers' sites) reckons 72.12% Windows XP, 15.26% Windows Vista, 7.83% Mac, 1.04% everything else. Unfortunately they don't break out XP SP2 versus earlier service packs. For browsers, they state 46.03% IE7, 27.52% IE6, 17.17% Firefox 2, 6.25% Safari (all versions), 1.59% others. I'm not sure of their methodology - I think they're counting a 'unique user' by unique public IP address and user-agent string, which massively undercounts users of homogeneous systems (i.e. all IE6 on XP SP2) behind NAT devices. One Firefox user behind a NAT would count as one, while one thousand IE6 users behind the same NAT would still count as one, giving a 50/50 split for that site rather than the true 1:1000.
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