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Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You

Posted by Hemos on from the what-a-terrible-idea dept.

Muddie writes "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that television execs and advertising agencies think product placement and the 30 second commercial spot are not getting the respect they deserves from us consumers, so in order to combat us ignoring them, there will be pop-up ads taking up the lower quarter of your screen during normal programming. Not only that, but the ads will run during relevant portions of the programming (see a guy shaving in the mirror, get a pop-up ad from a razor company). Do "They" think we just don't see enough advertising in a day? If you aren't busy throwing things through your television yet, you can read the article over here (with no pop-up ads)."

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  1. Guh-Faw! by Erris · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    TV is an advert in the UK, for the powers that be. The closest analogy for USAsian is NPR owning all broadcasting and charging you a yearly fee to own a telivision.

    Back to topic - Are these corner ads are going to have a BLINK tag? Will they be more amusing than the product placement ad they cover up? Who watches TV anymore anyway? If nobody watches, is it still television?

    umount /dev/tv

    sixty thrills per second is just too much for me.

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    DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
    1. Re:Guh-Faw! by mangu · · Score: 1, Flamebait
      Its a typo, the correct term is "USian".

      Actually, the term that's normally accepted by the largest number of people is "Gringo".

      The arrogance of thinking the American continent is their country is what made their tallest skyscrapers to fall down to terrorist attacks.

      Gringos don't like to believe that a whole world exists beyond their 9 million square kilometer sized country. They don't even believe their country's area is actually that. They prefer to exist solely in the loneliness of their medieval measurement units that no one else has used for decades...