People Want Video Ads On Their Wireless Device
from the uh-oh dept
Here are two articles that can be combined in a way to suggest that your mobile device is soon going to be over taken by crazy advertising while killing all your bandwidth. First, is an awful study suggesting that people actually like receiving advertisements on their wireless devices. My guess is that people are intrigued by the novelty of it all, but when it becomes pervasive it is just going to be annoying. Add to that the new ability to easily send streaming video ads and I think we may soon have a problem. I do not want streaming video ads on my mobile phone.
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Innovative advertising
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I partiuclarly hate those big lorries that people drive around with adverts on them and nothing else.
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Novelty Factor
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Bullsh*t
This won't work. There's not enough bandwidth to make it unobtrusive. People will revolt when their ability to get info immediately is delayed by advertising dreck.
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