Vast Majority Of Popup Click Throughs Are Accidents
from the whoops dept
For years, anyone with a bit of common sense has known that pop-up ads were bad for business. They piss people off and studies have even shown that they're bad for business generating more negative feelings for the brand than positive responses. The problem, still, was that advertisers who used them still swore by them, pointing to the much higher clickthrough rates than other types of ads. Advertisers used this stat to prove that, for as much as popups pissed people off and brought them ill-will, they still "worked." Well, now it's time to disprove that as well. A new study has shown that approximately 90% of popup clickthroughs are accidental, caused by people trying to shut down the damn windows so they can get on with their surfing. This quote says it all: "Achieving an over-inflated click-through rate might help brands to justify their spend, but they are only deceiving themselves. The brand, which we used in our research study, is not only wasting up to 90% of its budget by paying for unintentional click-throughs, it is also frustrating and deceiving users."
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This reminds me...
As I was trying to type-
A website I was on some time ago was particularly obnoxious in that while I was reading it, I was doing something else, and I would click on a blank portion of the page to reset my focus, and allow myself to use the mousewheel to scroll. It was actually linked to some obnoxious thing about selling whitespace, and I really lost my patience with it. I don't remember who or what it was, and I haven't run into it since.
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NY Times last year
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1 - accidental click throughs on the actual page (I use Opera and Mozilla, I haven't seen a popup in ages)
2 - Interstitials
3 - Slow page loads because ad.doubleclick.kc or whatever isn't loading.
http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
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Can we ask you to start running these particular ads on this site to help keep Dorpus away from here, too?
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DON'T FEED THE DORPUS !
:-)
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ever stopped to think that
Businessmen don't care if they are annoying or not, they only care about the bottom line.
Advertising is expensive, you can be sure they spend plenty of time examining their stats to ensure their campaign is paying off.
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The bottom line ends up looking good because popups are likely a small part of a huge campaign including other things. So the bottom line looks good...but they never see that it could look BETTER without popups.
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