Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You

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)."

Comments

Re:Guh

[skinfitz]

I'm glad I live in a country with advert-free TV [bbc.co.uk].

Yeah - unfortunately TV is not FREE in the UK adverts or no adverts - can you believe we are expected to pay £107 a year for a TV license? I dont watch TV and so I dont have a license. This tiny detail doesnt stop them HOUNDING me - they just assume that I do watch it without a license (which I dont, I SOOO dont) and they automatically get granted search warrants to break into and search your property, however it is not illegal to merely OWN a TV set, just to "use TV receiving equipment to receive or record television broadcast services". Yes, this includes TV cards in computers.

can anyone say...

[Ender Ryan]

Cany anyone say, Geocities? I thought you could... Remember when there used to be web pages there? Look at them now, are their servers even still there, I wouldn't know, haven't visited a page on Geocities in years. Soon as Geocities started shoving popups down peoples' throats, Geocities became the laughing stock of the whole Internet. They must be the least respected Internet company to have exist(ed?).

Of course, most people don't have anything other to occupy their time these days anyway, so they might as well watch their programming in all of it's purely marketing glory.

Heh, did anyone else see Minority Report? What brilliant irony, a film with tons of stuff showing how scary, invasive, and annoying advertising could become, is a film laced with product placement from beginning to end...

How long till the moon has a Pepsi or a Nike logo staring down at all of us. We the people, we the consumers.