Have you ever bought anything from a banner ad?
I think I click on a banner less than once a year, and then only because I am puzzled by something about it, never with the intention (or the result) to actually buy something.
But banners are still around, and more animated and irritating than ever, so I guess somebody is buying from them. Maybe you?
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I wonder if people who actually do mistake banner ads for Windoze messages or games are intelligent enough to buy by credit card?
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Unh-unh, not me. I find them so irritating!
"PUNY BANNER! HULK SMASH YOU!!!"
But I've developed a great mantra to counter them:
"I am calm. I am Zen. I am Lexomil incarnate.
I am as tense as a jellyfish."
Speaking of little pics, am I the only one whose profile image is ACTUALLY a profile view?
No one is buying from them.
Could it be that companies who buy them see them as just real estate. Like print ads on the walls of buildings or inside underground trains. We don't click those either, and still they are known to work. I think it's called brand building.
To answer your question: No, I never click them.
I often click on banners on buses. If nobody else does, that would explain the odd looks I get.
Hmm.. I click on banners once in a blue moon. I've never bought anything from a banner, directly, but they have led me to some interesting shops (like Condomania).
I think I've never followed an internet ad. I HATE the ones that have voices -- "Congratulations! You have just been selected ..." -- and wish that there were a way to block, the sounds from ads without simply muting the whole speaker scheme on the computer, since I'm likely listening to music at the time that it interrupts and crashes my sound card.
"Pithhelmet" for Mac is a good all-round ad-blocker for Safari.
they are flies in the ointment of life, very annoying. they should be outlawed.
I could live with them if I could just get rid of spam emails.
Eolake said...
"I often click on banners on buses. If nobody else does, that would explain the odd looks I get."
You know, you might be on to something there. :-D
Condomania? I wonder what they sell. Prophylactics, probbably.
Heeey, sounds interesting!
"Congratulations! You have just been selected ..."
Yeah, it's amazing how often I'm the 999.999th visitor on a site. Sometimes more than once on the same site, too. Uncanny coincidence, I tell you.
"they are flies in the ointment of life"
In Philip K. Dick's The Simulacra, this is literal. Futuristic advertisings are little flying insect-like thingies that hound you wherever you go, and keep yapping their "very persuasive" message in a squeaky voice hoping you'll give in. Or, more likely, until you grab a firearm and gun them down!
They're legal, but people have the legal right to destroy them.
:-?
I wonder if people who actually mistake banners for Windoze messages or games are intelligent enough to buy by credit card.
Well, d'uh! Earth to Eolake: you hand the card to the cashier, and say "charge it". How hard can that be, sweetheart?
My good buddies Derek Z and Hansel showed me how. Now all I have to do is find a nice spot on the wall to pin that number. Um, what's it for again?
Great! Thanks for sharing this post. I did not buy a banner ad. After some time, I will try to buy anything from a banner ad according to need.
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