love or hate: ad format servey

[Alexa]

Hi Everyone,

As a user, which ad format you hate the most and which you like the most?

A) Top banner
B) Google AdSense
C) In-content rich media box
D) Vibrant Media IntelliTxt

I will summarize findings here when I got enough votes.

Thank you very much.

 

[kaeli]

Hi Everyone,

As a user, which ad format you hate the most and which you like the most?

I hate anything that makes noise and anything that obscures page
content.
I can block or ignore all the rest. Top banners would be my choice for
hating the least. Popups rock. I can block those and never see them. *g*

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[Lee]

Alexa said:

Hi Everyone,

As a user, which ad format you hate the most and which you like the most?

A) Top banner
B) Google AdSense
C) In-content rich media box
D) Vibrant Media IntelliTxt

I will summarize findings here when I got enough votes.

That's not really a very well structured survey.
Some people won't know what all of those choices mean,
and so could only guess how they feel about them.
It would be better to describe what the user sees,
rather than list the feature names.

 

[Hywel]

Hi Everyone,

As a user, which ad format you hate the most and which you like the most?

A) Top banner
B) Google AdSense
C) In-content rich media box
D) Vibrant Media IntelliTxt

I will summarize findings here when I got enough votes.

Did you think to find an appropriate group?

 

[Ivan Marsh]

Did you think to find an appropriate group?

What? alt.advertising.annoyances?

Considering a lot of the annoying ads are written with javascript I'd say
it's a pretty appropriate posting.

 

[Mick White]

Hi Everyone,

As a user, which ad format you hate the most and which you like the most?

A) Top banner
B) Google AdSense
C) In-content rich media box
D) Vibrant Media IntelliTxt

I will summarize findings here when I got enough votes.

I don't like A & B, I don't know what C & D are.
Mick

 

[Grant Wagner]

I hate anything that makes noise and anything that obscures page
content.
I can block or ignore all the rest. Top banners would be my choice for
hating the least. Popups rock. I can block those and never see them. *g*

Without knowing precisely what his categories mean, I'll share a way to block a
great many more ads (other then just popups) in Gecko-based browsers:

<url: http://texturizer.net/firefox/adblock.html />

Put the content there in a file called "userContent.css" and place that in the
chrome directory within you Gecko-based browsers' profile.

Note, that some things you may want to see could be blocked by the
userContent.css listed there, but I've never had any trouble with it.

 

[kaeli]

Without knowing precisely what his categories mean, I'll share a way to block a
great many more ads (other then just popups) in Gecko-based browsers:

<url: http://texturizer.net/firefox/adblock.html />

Put the content there in a file called "userContent.css" and place that in the
chrome directory within you Gecko-based browsers' profile.

Cool. I'm going to try that. I use Netscape 7.1 for the most part.
....

/edits the file and goes to cnn.com, tvguide.com, and other sites she
knows have ads.../

Hey, that's neat!

It kinda messes up a couple pages, though. Notably
http://techrepublic.com.com/

I can still read and use the pages, though. Just the alignment is a
little off, especially at the bottom.

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