Comments on: Google AdSense Animated Ads

By: FernandezAlexia

FernandezAlexia — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:44:43 +0000

Thats a nice info.
But i feel, no one can beat Adsense.
Thanks a ton

By: shwell

shwell — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:04:08 +0000

In my opinion, if a website contains animated ads then I have the right to block the ad via my anti-virus web blocker. Web site blocking is becomming more prevalent as users are becoming more tech savvy. Websites should take heed.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:09:47 +0000

well they have not placed these arrows on my site…buy have placed flash based ad

By: AdMoolah News and Views » Highlights From the Last Two Weeks

AdMoolah News and Views » Highlights From the Last Two Weeks — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:32:58 +0000

[...] Some animated backgrounds were spotted on AdSense ads. These ads had some animated arrows on them. See JenSense and ProBlogger for more coverage. [...]

By: Student

Student — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:07:35 +0000

Ya even i have seen many of these chitika ads

we hope adsense also comes up with mini malls

By: Tom Hanna - Financial Options

Tom Hanna - Financial Options — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:38:03 +0000

When Adsense first started, one of the selling points was that text ads would battle “banner blindness”. They were supposed to be the answer to banners, graphics, animations, flash, etc. Now…Google’s come full circle to offering the thing Adsense was supposed to improve on.

By: christoph-hoerl.de | Weblog und Homepage von Christoph Hörl | Aninmiertes Google AdSense

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:30:16 +0000

[...] Der Problogger berichtet, dass an mehreren Stellen in letzter Zeit Google Adsense mit Animationen aufgetaucht sind. Es sollen dezent blinkende Pfeile in den Hintergrund der Anzeige eingebunden werden. Eigentlich war der große Vorteil von AdSense, dass nichts blinkte, sondern nur Text angezeigt wurde. Momentan scheint diese Anzeigenart noch in der Testphase zu sein, da sie nur eine Auswahl an Nutzern anwenden können. [...]

By: Handry

Handry — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:04:05 +0000

Animated Ads?
I really can’t afford for using it.
Better use eye catching small images

By: vivek

vivek — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:41:10 +0000

Very funny but I will never go for such ads. It sounds stupid to me

By: Happy and Blue

Happy and Blue — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:16:17 +0000

Also can’t stand the animated ads. It detracts from the text. You try to read and something is flashing or moving. Usually I just move on to another site..

By: Guide To Build Computer

Guide To Build Computer — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:44:07 +0000

With this, google is attracting the user’s attention to the ads. But this will not be effective in long run.

Regards

Krishna

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:36:32 +0000

These are somewhat amazing, given the fuss that Google makes in their ToC to prevent publishers to do things like add arrows pointing to the ads or anything to draw undue attention to them, the would have to modifty the ToC with these and then it could be open season for abuse and their cred. could suffer.

By: Srinivasan R

Srinivasan R — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:10:35 +0000

What next?
“Punch the monkey and win $$$” kind of ads.
I hate it.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 04:21:18 +0000

I agree with hagrin about surfers becoming more sophisticated.

You’re going to see ad companies constantly changing formats. I believe that surfers probably train their eyes to ignore the common ad formats such as 468×60 banners. I know I do.

Just a thought.

Brandon

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:29:03 +0000

Well, I never liked blinking text or background – anywhere – but there are some ads out there on some sites that are worse eyesores … with their background color choices.

But …. what if….
(1) google forgets the animation part
(2) changes the animated part into a plan watermark
(3) advertisers are able to embed their logo as well as their ad

Then .. would
(4) publishers like me get higher click thru rates?

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:31:03 +0000

I went to take a look, and the animated backgrounds seem to be gone. I really can’t stand the look of that particular ad unit, and I wouldn’t permit it to run at my sites.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:46:52 +0000

This is really scary. I hope Google doesn’t implement this or if they do a lot of people don’t use it. I agree with you that the beauty of Google text ads is that they are non-obtrusive.

By: Brad D.

Brad D. — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:20:41 +0000

The novelty will wear off fast. Just like any type of “new” media on the net. Remember the craze of those metalic borderles dhtml ads? They were fun and cool for 6 months then everyone realised they were annoying and ditched them.

I don’t want crazy ads on my site… so long as they give an option to only have text still I am happy.

By: hagrin

hagrin — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:26:50 +0000

It won’t make a difference.

The problem with AdSense reaching the user, especially for any tech related blog or site, is that most techincal web surfers, school computers, etc. all have ad blocking software installed and AdSense is picked up by default for most applications these days.

Chitika ads actually show up to users who use FireFox and certain extensions until the user makes a manual configuration change. I think Internet advertising is going to require a technical overhaul pretty soon as users become more sophisticated – and more probably, default computer configurations become more sophisticated.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:16:58 +0000

Totally agree with Dawn…