Audio Ads Must Go.
Audio Ads Must Go.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#1Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 8:52pm
The sudden impact of a voice ringing out is annoying at home and problematic at work. I'm not inclined to trade in useful little dings and alerts in order to bypass the ads. Which leaves me inclined to just stay away from BWW.
Although that may be good news to some, it is counter-productive from marketing and site traffic perspectives.
I know papa started a similar thread a few days ago, but it bears repeating.
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
#2re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 8:53pmI'll march with you on this one. I had been lucky enough to avoid them, but now that I've had the joy of experiencing them, I concur!
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iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#2re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 8:53pmDamn it. I posted the message and immediately got hit with another one. It's REALLY irritating.
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 8:59pm
i think they wouldnt be so bad if people from the BWW community were recording the ads.
i mean, if i heard Erika Amato comin out of a banner ad, i'd click it!
#4re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:00pmHate these ads SO.MUCH.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
BroadwayBulldog
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/06
#5re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:01pm
Iflit and I haven't been in such agreement since CAROLINE, OR CHANGE. 
#6re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:02pm
They are quite annoying, and I for one would not miss them at all.
I mean how many free nanos do I really need?
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iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#7re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:42pm
Denizens of BWW Unite!
SOA'P: Stamp Out Audio 'Pression!
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
cmleidi
Broadway Star Joined: 9/27/03
#8re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:47pmThe "buzzing" ad is quite annoying. What is the point? I'm certainly not going to click on an ad that intrusive and it only makes me not want to come back to this site.
#9re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:47pmPlease tell me they are TEMPORARY!
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#10re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:52pm
The worst is when I'm listening to some beautiful showtune, with tears welling up in my eyes.
And I here "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT" or "Congratulations"
Seriously pisses me off.
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#11re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:53pmI think we need a petition. I can't stand these ads.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#12re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 9:57pmFor me, I've only gotten the apple i-phone and the ipods ad 30 times. I'm afraid of the beeping one or what!
#13re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:09pm
if you dont like them join my facebook group lol
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2345013089
i'm the only in it beacuse it's new and i only know 2 bww-ers on facebook
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Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
#14re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:11pm
Now the Nano ad in the headline box and the iPhone or whatever the hell it is in the side box are competing with each other - actually talking over each other.
What fun!
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Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#15re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:12pmI have yet to experience these Nano and iPhone ads, thank goodness. I do get those completely terrifying emoticon ones, though. Your mouse accidentally goes over it, and all of a sudden, some grimacing little yellow face screams "OH MY GOD!" at you. Unpleasant.
#16re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:14pmWhen we've had these threads before, there have been posters who have defended the ads, which of course diffuses the campaign. Let's see if any are still defending them.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#17re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 10:45pmApparently I'm the only one who hasnt had any kind of run in with these audio ads... granted, I usually have my speakers off at work, but they're always on at home and still, nothing.
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#18re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:23pm
Eh, I've already started a petition against them, but, of course, it was deleted.
Hate them. I get them too often, too.
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The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#19re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:34pm
They scare the &*$% out of me every time.
SOA'P: Stamp Out Audio 'Pression!
That is the bext acronym ever.
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#20re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:53pm
I have my speaker sound off so it's not an issue here.
I believe if you go into the sound device control features of your computer you can alter what on your computer is able to transmit sounds to your speakers. If only your CD player, for example, can use the speakers, the website sound won't be able to squawk.
Try "Sounds and Audio Devices" on the Control Panel. It might be there you can do it.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#21re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:23amI frequently use a site that requires sound. I dislike being put in the position of having to choose. This feels quite a bit like all the phone solicitations back in the day before the Do Not Call list restored order to dinnertime.
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#22re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:25amI heard it for the first time tonight and it scared me.
#23re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:27amIt is especially bad for me tonight, since I hear TWO ADS AT THE SAME TIME!! One is across the top of the screen and the other is on the side. Makes my head explode.
#24re: Audio Ads Must Go.
Posted: 4/18/07 at 12:27amThere is nothing more unpleasant than Leontyne Price's "Un bel di" being drowned out by the promise of free iPhones...
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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