Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Congratulations! you get to be annoyed

I would like follow the creators of the ad "congratulations! you have been selected to win a ______"(and variations) around with a bullhorn repeating that phrase. In church, the supermarket, on the street. Just constantly be repeating the phrase "Congratulations! You have won me following you around with a bullhorn repeating this sentence!"

For merely accepting such a job, the lady that says it deserves the same.

What's most interesting is these ads don't work. Most everyone I've ever met is refreshing the page at the first utterance of the word "congratulations" these ads don't promote brand recognition save that of Iphone and Xbox. Though as I suspected it seems to be confirmed that people will indeed click on anything http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/05/22/some-people-will-click-on-anything

The ad doesn't appear often but it is incredibly grating and honestly audio ads of ANY kind should be verboten. I would include on the list any "auto play" music player. It's bad enough when people load the song that they think makes them look the most hip, quirky, unique, offbeat, underground etc. on myspace and you are clicking STOP long before the page finishes loading but when you visit a site you are unfamiliar with and some crappy playlist begins assaulting your auditory sensibilities and you now need to search the page for the player. This is fun because those smart enough to click "autoplay on page load" on their players don't often design the most easy to view/navigate web pages. They also usually have frightfully embarrassing taste in music. This is great in public places when the latest coldplay tune starts blasting out of your laptop.

Common courtesy - uncheck autoplay


1 comment:

eLan said...

couldnt agree with you more. i actually found this post from searching google to see if anyone else hated those @#*$ing "congratulations" ads as much as i do.