The online advertising market is going too far at the moment. Things like banner ads that encourage kids to break school rules and play their games in class when they’re not allowed. And pictures of overweight people in four places on the screen plus one that follows you up and down the screen when you scroll!
As you may have noticed, the online advertising market is going too far at the moment. Some companies are actually encouraging people (adults and kids) to both play their games during class when they’re not allowed. And to play their games at work, which you could get in quite a lot of trouble for.
The MMORPG Evony is the one that has ads encouraging kids and adults to do the things listed above. They are trying anything to get people to play their games. They are even going as far as trying to get kids to play their game at school, and if they were caught, the kid would get into a lot of trouble. Evony must be one hell of a crappy game if they have to stoop that low to get players.
Another big online advertising campaign is the “Fat loss secret discovered by a mom”. Firstly, why in every advertisement is it mentioned that it was discovered by a mom? Does it really make it special that it was discovered by someone why has had kids? Plus some of the ads even follow you up the screen!
There are more like this, but I’m not going to list them here. The bottom line is that the advertising market is doing weirder things all the time…
Thanks for reading!
November 5th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I agree with you..
November 5th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Nice post. Thanks