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Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word)
ctwxman writes "Say it isn't so. Full-motion commercials, when you go to click off a page, are coming to a website near you! The New York Times (standing in a bathtub with an electric iron required) reports: "Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising." Unicast, the company responsible, says the ads will play regardless of pop-up blocking. "The only format that loads completely before it is allowed to play, the Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time."
I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net? It's not what we're used to, but maybe we're asking for more than is reasonable. I just don't know." I think I hear the whip swinging back, but harder ...
Good thing Konquerer lacks compatibility with everything odd! I don't even get half the ads that are on web pages just through the browser's compatibilty problems, though important content almost always makes its way through.
could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising.
Yeah, it could make millions of people get around to learning how to block ads..
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
now I just need a utility to send a nastygram to the admin of whatever domains do this. I am already getting yelled at for bandwidth issues with my ISP (distro torrents)
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
I'm in the tub and holding the iron, but I'm still getting the damn registration screen. Perhaps I should eat some cookies. Might that help?
From Unicast's site:
"This format breaks-through the shackles imposed by pixel-constrained and technology-led units, giving creatives a full and blank canvas to work from and with"
Finally. Smooth CRT graphics. These people should get a Nobel or something.
I think I need a new sig here.
As was mentioned earlier today . . .
My hosts file is already open and waiting to be editted. Lets see how "guaranteed" your advertising is then.
Jeez, next thing you know, these corporations will try to convince consumers to purchase a new DVR with a 'content-skipping' feature so we can enjoy all of their commercials without interruption. The future's so bright...
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." - M.J. A
I will refuse to visit any of these sites.
If ESPN does it, I'll get my sports info from CBS Sportsline. If CNN does it, my default news page will be Fox, etc.
If MSN does it, my default internet portal will be... oh wait I guess there's no problem there.
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"It's TV, without the television," said John Vail, director for digital media and marketing for Pepsi-Cola North America, a unit of PepsiCo.
What the hell does Mr. Vail think TV is short for?"
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so people that don't choose to use Windows aren't consumers??
Fucking Microsoft zombie idiot fuckheads.
Like here in New Zealand? Broadband is still a fairly rare beast, and when it is available, it's 20c per MB thank you very much.
That's right, would you believe this, I have to go stick coins in a machine down the hall regularly to get broadband, otherwise I get disc
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
And what's the guarantee? Free week's worth of ads every time someone hits your page with lynx? This guarantee business is baloney from so many points of view.
This type of guarantee is clearly more of a threat than a promise.
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I work for an ISP, I can see getting *tons* of calls for this. "How do I stop these commercials?" ... "You can't if you run widows. You'll have to install Linux."
Who said this wasn't the year of desktop Linux?
FLR
No one is standing there with a gun forcing you to go to web sites that have ads.
/me clicks over to MSN
please tell that to the person with a gun standing behind me!
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
Boss: Bad news gang. It turns out people and blocking and closing our popup ads. They're disabling Flash and Active-X because of our overlay ads. What are we going to do? Drone 1: Stop annoying them with those ads and go back to unobtrusive banners? Boss: You're Fired! Who's got a GOOD idea Drone 2: How about we hijak their entire monitor, makign sure they can't even begin to think about closing our ads? Bross: That's brilliant. Drone 2: Then we can kick them in the balls. Bross: Brilliant! Anything else Drone 2: Well, I have been kicking around this idea involving armies of parachuting advertising monkies... Bross: Great, leave a memo on my desk. I've got a tee time with Gates and Eisner at 2:30.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
Don't you mean: "Knowing is half the battle!/Snorks!/Munchichi, Munchichi, oh so soft and cuddly!/Fah laaa, lah la la lah lah!/Where's the Beef?/Keep the hot side hot, the cold side cold!/Encyclopedia Btritannica (I think I made that abundantly clear...)/Zoinks! Foiled Again!/And I'll form... THE HEAD!/Alllviiiiinnnn!/By the power of Greyskull!/Cut that jibba-jabba!/Go Go Gadget Go!/Transform and Roll Out!/Wonder Twins Powers... Activate!/Hey Yo, Mall-o-ry!"
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Gone are the times when you would be replied "we don't support linux" - they guaranteed it.
Uninstall Windows Media Player. Or better yet, uninstall Windows.
Can I have my fortune now? Preferably in unmarked twenties and hundreds. Thanks.
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You cannot wash away blood with blood
Are they going to change their name to multicast when IPv6 comes along? Seems to me that unicast is kinda bad name for such a bandwidth hogging application.
> apparently you've never heard of cable television. Or been to a Google-plex movie theatre recently, or purchased a Disney DVD with ff-disabled ads eating up, oh, the first 1/2 hour of the damned things (which is 1/2 the reason that, if i do buy a Disney movie, it's on cassette). Recently I was at the end of a AAA call when I locked my keys in the car and after she told me my service code the operator recited a commercial! I was standing in freezing cold weather trying to make out all of her words in the howling winds and I wasn't sure if she was finished, and after she repeated it I was floored that she was doing some advertising at the end of my cellphone call! What next? As you come to, the paramedic leans in close to you and says, "This defibrullation has been brought to you by...."
"If I start getting commercials on the internet I will spit."
Like farting and peeing, just don't do it into the wind...
What?
Dude. The ad needs a captive audience. The defibrulator should show the ads before, and perhaps between, shocks.
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To: webproducts@unicast.com
From: zcat@wired.net.nz
I was hoping to be able to view your new advertising, however it appears to use Flash and I get the following error from Macromedia.com:
> We are unable to locate a single Web player that best matches your platform and operating system.
If you could please tell me where I can get the flash plugin for Mozilla 1.5 under FreeBSD, I would be most appreciative. Thank You.
Bruce Kingsbury.
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At that price, Its almost cheaper to buy windows than to download linux.
Douglas P. Price
What about lynx? I seriously doubt the ablity for this full motion advertisement scheme to work for `play perfectly for every consumer, every time'. Then again if i use *nix am i a consumer?
They will make it compulsory to have aalib installed... :-)
Burma?