Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You

Muddie writes "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that television execs and advertising agencies think product placement and the 30 second commercial spot are not getting the respect they deserves from us consumers, so in order to combat us ignoring them, there will be pop-up ads taking up the lower quarter of your screen during normal programming. Not only that, but the ads will run during relevant portions of the programming (see a guy shaving in the mirror, get a pop-up ad from a razor company). Do "They" think we just don't see enough advertising in a day? If you aren't busy throwing things through your television yet, you can read the article over here (with no pop-up ads)."

hmm...

[pavelam]

I wonder if we'll get x10 ads during spytv? God help us.

Futurama said it best...

[Dijital]

Captain Taronga Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century? Philip J. Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games..and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

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Re:Why not in lieu of 30s programming?

[cart00nmonkey]

Users have already reportedly thwarted this brilliant new marketing scheme, by placing black construction paper, and tape, over the lower half of their screens. NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, WB furious. News @ 11.

Too bad for you

[loosenut]

Not to sound elitist, but I'm glad I've cured myself of the TV addiction. I watch 10 hours per year, tops.

Now, if they start inserting pop-up ads in video games, I'm screwed.

(Product placement in video games is bad, but I can tolerate it. Actual ads are a different story ENTIRELY).

Duck tape solves the problem yet again

[Anonymous Coward]

Simply tape over the offending area of the TV in order to resume your viewing pleasure.

Re:Living without a TV is pretty nice

[s20451]

I actually have to find something constructive to do with my time instead of wasting the next 5 hours watching sitcoms

What, like posting on Slashdot?

Re:hmm...

[Theodore Logan]

probably. Not to mention ads for

oil during Bush speeches

plastic surgery during Cher videos

flying lessons during reruns of 9-11 shots

See it from the bright side. This could make way for some excellent political and satirical commentary.

Oh, in case you're wondering: I'm not being serious.

Ads I'd like to see pop up next to images.

[MAXOMENOS]

Man shaving: Gilette
Small children: Bayer aspirin
Car on a sunny road: Honda or GM
Car being destroyed: Ford
Computer in cheesy series like V.I.P.: Red Hat, IBM, Sun or Mandrake
Computer geek with personality problems: Slashdot
Computer being broken into: Microsoft
Bob Dole: Viagra
Sarah Michelle Gellar: Trojans
Powerful, cynical villain: RIAA
George W. Bush: Hooked on Phonics
Dick Cheney: Arthur Anderson

Others?

Re: What about the pr0n channels?!

[Theodore Logan]

Yeah, like we haven't been told about herbal viagra already...

Re:Guh

[1010011010]

No way. I'll just tape a piece of cardboard over the lower part of the screen. I also have a 12-gauge "remote control," if the need arises.

Re:Living without a TV is pretty nice

[MalachiConstant]

Once again, the onion [theonion.com] teaches us all a valuable lesson.

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TV-Gator

[nick_davison]

I have a "Gator" inspired solution for you all. Being the generous sort I am, I'll even Open-license it. ;)

1. Buy Playboy (or similar).
2. Find attractive image.
3. Remove attractive image from magazine.
4. Paste over area of TV screen filled with annoying advertising.

Re:Guh

[Citizen of Earth]

I'll just tape a piece of cardboard over the lower part of the screen.

I'll just turn on my picture-in-picture and tune ir in to a competing network. I knew I got that feature for a reason.

Bowdlerized cartoons...

[MsGeek]

With the Cartoon Network starting their "Adult Swim" bloc of animation, I was hoping that maybe the WB and MGM cartoons that CN has on its "banned list" might resurface. Unfortunately CN doesn't have the cojones to do it. So nobody gets to see amazing cartoons like "Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarves", "Tin Pan Alley Cats" and "Blitz Wolf" because they're not politically correct.

Some Bugs Bunny cartoons like "Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips" and "All This And Rabbit Stew" are on the "banned list" which meant that in 2000, when the pre-1948 WB cartoons and the 1948-on WB cartoons were "reunited" as AOL Time Warner properties, they couldn't air all the Bugs Bunny cartoons on June Bugs like they originally wanted to.

This crap also goes on with newer cartoons too. The incredibly good animated series "Daria" finished its run on MTV this year, and is now being aired on "The N" which is what Noggin calls itself after 5pm.

Now, Noggin is a joint partnership between MTV Networks' Nickelodeon channel and the Childrens' Television Workshop, best known for Sesame Street. This means that a lot of stuff gets cut from "Daria". So much so that some episodes get turned into meaningless mush after the schoolmarm censors get done with it. There are also episodes that will not air on The N.

At least I have my tapes of the episodes as they originally aired. [sigh]

I hate censorship.

Re:marketed out of existence

[Benwick]

Just how much did Costco pay you to write this?

Re:I'm treated like a criminal for not watching TV

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you considered telling them that your visual impaird and that they are discriminating aginst you?

Targeted Ads

[segfault7375]

Not only that, but the ads will run during relevant portions of the programming (see a guy shaving in the mirror, get a pop-up ad from a razor company).

GREAT! Most of what I watch is Sci-Fi, so I can't wait to start getting pop-up ads for teleportation devices, Phase III blasters, and vacations to galaxies far, far away!

Re:Hmm.... well written, but I'll bite anyway.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Still, it doesn't change the fact that all of these little blips on life's "radar" provide common experiences that people can relate to and talk about in daily life.

Doesn't work. Just this morning I saw this fine babe on the bus. I opened with "Jeez, I'll bet you'd look fine with a Nike swoosh tattoed across your tits" and the conversation went nowhere.

Re:hmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

"I wonder if we'll get x10 ads during spytv? God help us."

Don't worry... they'll be pop-under ads. You won't be able to see them until the TV show is over... Haw! Sometimes I'm so funny, I kill myself!
(This is not one of those times, but I figured, what the hey, lets post it anyway!)

Re:107 Pounds!!! sheesh...stop comlaining...

[SB5]

The funny thing is, the United States constitution is the same way, 'cept it is extremely fair and doesn't work remarkably well.

All you have to do.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Is blacken the edge with a felt tip marker-pen.... oohh sorry wrong group, I thought this was CD Copy prot..... HEY WAIT A SECOND!

video games..

[funkmastermike]

I see people say complaining about video games and saying how they better not touch them with adverts.. but how many of you would rather the main character in a game ... lets say duke nukem ...break into a bar, shoot some pigs up, then afterwards look around the room seeing the bartender shaking in his boots.. then hear duke say "gimme a shot of tequila". I'd rather he say "gimme some jose cuervo". and he drinks it and moves on.. simple nonchalant advertising in video games make them a tad more real and more fun knowing that he's drinkin a coke and not a soft drink or a "cuke" (like sorny or panaphonic)
I just hope we're not forced to see ads during load times one day.

Or even better...

[Mulletproof]

"How did he die John? How!?"
"It looks like he was shot to death... Probably a drive-by, Lara..."

POP! *Glock semi-automatic 9mm pistols, ammunition and parts availible at Al's Guns and Supply!*

Sorry. I had ta ^__^