Well Dennis - on free to air TV it still does happen somewhat - with the scrolling marquees at the bottom of the screen on some stations. And TV is one way so there would be no option to cancel the ads like there is with Google. I'd say its a small price to pay to use a free service - can you imagine, in the absence of youtube, gmail, etc etc - what alternatives would there be for us to share videos etc. I think the real question should be - do the repeated ads, when reporting back to the advertiser, count as a single view or multiple views? I'm not so in the know abt some of these things but I gather online ads are based on views/clicks etc - and perhaps the provider sends back stats to the advertiser to say their ad was viewed x million times, etc - in which case these multiple ads should not be reported as unique views. Having said that, I guess the effort to close the ad would be the same the effort to change channels on a TV. Still not a herculean effort. On 27 October 2011 15:33, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Imagine Free to Air TV with the same ad every 5 minutes? They should at least know which advert was played to a certain user and how frequent it is played. Too much becomes a nuisance.
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