I opened up the YourRestaurants site on Ninemsn, tabbed away to check something, and all of a sudden, underneath the Daft Punk I have coming through the phones, I hear Billy Connolly’s voice. WTF?!, I think, wondering if DP had sampled the Big Yin like Orbital sampled Christopher Eccleston on the track “You Lot”.
Unfortunately, I tab back to the Ninemsn page, to see a bloody video pop up ad for ING.
This shit is just WRONG. Seriously. Folks at Ninemsn, if you’re reading this, CUT THAT SHIT OUT. And ING folks, if you’re reading this, SACK YOUR AGENCY.
Popping up interstitials is bad enough, but VIDEO interstitials is just a plain shitty thing to do. It is rude, it is arrogant and it is annoying. Is that what you came up with in your brand meeting?
Agency Dickhead #1 “Hmmm, what do we want to ING brand to stand for?”
Agency Dickhead #2 “I know – how about being arrogant, rude, obnoxious assholes.”
Agency Dickhead #1 “Hmmm I’m SNIIFFFFFFF feeling that, Crispin. How do you think we could accomplish that vision on our budget?”
Agency Dickhead #2 “I know Marshall SNIFFFFFFFF – how about we pop up FUCKING VIDEO INTERSTITIALS WITHOUT ASKING PEOPLE TO OPT FUCKING IN!??”
Fuck you people. Seriously. You’re on my list.
ROFLMAO
Seriously, these companies are so out of touch with web users. That kind of shit falls into the “spam” basket for me. Perhaps someone should report them for sending out unsolicited advertisements. That is against the law isn’t it? Yahoo7 isn’t much better, either.
Servers yourself right for visiting NineMSN to start with 🙂
It’s not just NineMSN… any ‘big/old business’ site I go to has these stupid things… even the tvguide one. Irritating as hell. And downright frustrating for those on dial up! Inconsiderate %#@*&s!!
How about Intrusive Nauseating Guff?
It’s getting worse – I had a popup the other day, which didn’t have a close button. I find that obnoxious too.
Adblock is your friend.
My hotmail is having that problem with with UQ ads popping up.
ninemsn has popups, when you click close they re-appear if your pointer crosses over them.
Also the voice popup advertising is stupid!it makes me not want to buy these products.
MSN will loose suscribers, if they continue.I dont wan to know about the latest Audi, If I did I would go to the Audi Website, I dont need MSN to MAKE me see an Ad for just logging on the Nine msn