I’m not going to claim that I know how to run a business. However, if I did run a business, I would try my hardest not to turn away the people who use my products. In my experience, as a web-goer, possibly the biggest turn-off that I have experienced and continue to experience to this day is the prevalence of constant Facebook ads as well as others.
I’m not going to claim that I know how to run a business. However, if I did run a business, I would try my hardest not to turn away the people who use my products. In my experience, as a web-goer, possibly the biggest turn-off that I have experienced and continue to experience to this day is the prevalence of constant Facebook ads as well as others.
I can see Facebook ads as a good vehicle for businesses to get off of the ground on. When ads promote such things as coupon deals or promotional events that will benefit the customer, I can see why businesses utilize them on a habitual basis. It’s when they grow more constant, day by day, that I simply have to draw the line. I don’t want to check the photos of one of my Facebook friends and, upon clicking my friend’s name, be hit by an ad promoting a product that has no relevance to me.
I think the worst offender of using ads on the Internet, however, is YouTube and Google played a great hand in making me detest the site as much as I do at times. It seemed like, for a short period of time, ads were only played on videos created by YouTube partners, who would be paid a set commission for how many views and subscriptions they accumulated. However, even those without a partnership seem to have ads clung to their videos and they are helpless to do anything.
Maybe I’d understand the use of ads on YouTube if the videos were thirty minutes to an hour long, since those are pretty lengthy pieces in comparison to many of YouTube’s findings. It’s when I have to sit through a thirty-second ad for a two minute video that I have a problem. This shouldn’t be a constant thing on a site when all I’m trying to do is watch a simple video. If YouTube wants to promote people they are partnered with, just leave a graphic bar at the side of the page and leave it at that.
I don’t have to sit through the same ad before I have to watch a video over and over again.
Businesses have to make money and that’s the only way that they can stay afloat. Just like anyone in the business to make money, the bottom dollar is most important, so perhaps I’d be more sympathetic if I ran a business. However, as a consumer I feel like I’m being talked down to by companies like YouTube who seem to abuse ads. If I want to buy your Samsung Galaxy case I will, just let me watch the video please.
I’m not a child who can be so easily manipulated, YouTube, so don’t spit on my cupcake and tell me it is frosting.
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