RE: UKNM: Brand-building banners

[Marcus Exall]

I do agree that most users' experience of the web is poor - a bit like

owning a car ten years after it was invented - rather slow and unreliable,

and all of us involved in the industry have to work to overcome this, and an

improvement in banners and Internet advertising in general has to be top of

the agenda.


We could get into a long debate about advertising vs payment for

subscription models, but the reality is advertising on the web is here to

stay - we just have to find ways to make it more relevant to the user, or,

dare I say it, viewer.


One thing I am puzzled about is that people talk about the intrusive nature

of banners but don't seem to go on about TV or Radio advertising, which I

find far more intrusive.  In this way, I would say the banner is an

improvement.


Any thoughts?


Marcus


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Sent: 15 November 2000 18:00

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Subject: RE: UKNM: Brand-building banners



hi marcus


At 4:23 pm +0000 on 15/11/00, Marcus Exall wrote:


>You [referring to me, felix] wrote:

>>

>>'the reason i hate banners so much is that they delay me getting the

>>information i went to the web page to see, and therefore represent an

>>invariably negative brand experience. it's as simple az`s that for me.'

>

>This only the case with some of the old ad-serving solutions that use

>javascript.  Most ad solutions nowadays do not delay the loading of a page

>at all - the loading of the ad and page are totally independent.

>

>The delay of the page loading is more likely to do with other factors such

>as bandwidth, location of server, size of page files/images and references

>to external javascript.


that's the point. we poor internet consumers are entirely limited by

such things. that should be the primary concern of those who might

wish to foist such inconsiderate solutions on us. the 'it works on my

machine so you're inadequate' argument holds no water, and frankly

makes me want to write publicly about how crass banners are. oh,

silly me, i already do.


have a nice evening.


felix

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