Afternoon Folks!!
Yesterday I talked about TRUSTING a site before they get your info. Today I want to talk about another pet peeve of mine. See the Internet is NOT A TV! So advertisers better start to LEARN to stop treating it like one. Learn that a 30 or 60 second spot on a website is INSANELY long!
30 seconds? Imagine waiting 30 seconds for every page to load. That would be like a 300 baud modem. Remember them? Sorry, got off the path. But do IMBECILES really expect me to watch a 30 second diaper ad? Really? 30 seconds. I just want to see the damn CONTENT. Don't waste my time! Don't waste YOUR money or whatever moron is paying you. Stop being desperate and focus on being good. Maybe even have something RELATED to what I am reading about you idiots!
Now I don't like any of those sites that force me to watch something......BUT IF YOU do FORCE me to watch some CRAP I could care less about and makes you look like desperate fools.........at LEAST cut it to 10 seconds.
Thank you!
And that is 'Today's Pet Peeve' ;-)
Rick Schwartz
Peter
Amen to that, but my cutoff is five seconds.
RaTHeaD
mine is eight seconds. but if i didn’t know it was only gonna be eight seconds i’d leave after five.
Owen
I love the 30 second ads you have to watch to see the 15 second ad I want to embedd on my website to show a call to action. Wonder if Chevy knows I search and find a Chevy Cruze ad only for google to sell Honda the preroll
UFO
Admittedly, I make a point of not buying a product or service if their advertising annoys me enough.
Because the internet is interactive advertisers should focus on entertaining and enticing customers to interact. But they don’t have a clue, they just think they can ram cr&p and you’ll lap it up.
The difference between the box and the internet is you can kill adverts with ease; you can talk to anyone else watching, get up and make a drink etc. But trying the same approach on a one to one basis for a small piece of information is just bizarre and poorly thought out.
Most advertisers should be able to get their message across in less THAN 5 SECONDS. In fact some advertising agency with more than half a brain could actually do super fast internet ads and basically machine gun ads at viewers. Everything has got faster (Think speed dating etc etc) so ads need to get with it.