RE: [flasher][OT] Macromedia's stupid banner ad policy

[JGL]

Shockwave I believe is seperate deal now from MM. Shockwave.com revenue is

specifically ad based (again I believe). I can handle that. I don't go to

shockwave.com anyway.


What's really cheesy are the banner ads at macromedia.com. Especially those

stupid ones that look like they have a built in drop down menu and when you

click to drop it down, it takes to the sponsors site.


Plus it's very annoying to have those ads refresh every 30-60 seconds.

Doesn't make it resource that can be left running in the BG when I'm working

on something. I have to shut down MM page because of those stupid ad

refreshes.


macromedia.com should be about macromedia products and support. To me seeing

banner ads at macromedia.com shows mixed priorities. I'm not there to be

exposed to advertising. Gambling sites, Life Insurance, etc. is not why I

visit MM site.


I'm surprised they don't see the distraction here. Banner ads are not

appropriate there.


jgl




-----Original Message-----

From: Tom Green [

tgreen17home [dot] com (mailto:tgreen17home [dot] com)

]

Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:21 PM

To: flasher from chinwag

Subject: [flasher] Macromedia's stupid banner ad policy



Is it just me, or do any others find the fact that Macromedia sticks ads

all over their sites to be seriously annoying. If I was the author of

this piece I would be seriously pissed with the stupid banner add that

appears on the splash page for the game. I thought , just for a second,

"That's odd, this thing doesn't fit the design." Then it hit me, it is

another stupid banner ad placed over an artist's work. I wonder how

Macromedia would react to our placing Adobe ads over their "Made with

Macromedia" slogan.


Matt wrote:


> the newest addictive game from Gamelab:

>

> http://www.shockwave.com/content/loop/loop.html

>

> I like the tissue paper collage look as well.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      The Chinwag site carries a wealth of Flash resources.

        Find useful links, suggested reading and archives at:


          ** http://www.chinwag.com/flasher **

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You are subscribed to flasher as:

infodesignthenet [dot] com

To unsubscribe, email

leave-flasher-485831Vlists [dot] chinwag [dot] com