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- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Nevr!
- TheDigerati, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9This is really stupid.
The preroller isnt interacting with the loading process of the video, its becoming a positioned popup. The videos arent loading and you already see the ad. The ad display doesnt trigger the loading and it only increases the delay before watching a video. If this service is to be a good service they need to integrate it someway to appear right after clicking play/load/start and disappearing 2-3 seconds after the video begins playing.
I've seen other video distro sites do this integration very seemlessly. I'd expect this demo to be an opensource alternative to indie websites trying to run their own advertising management.
No digg. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8can web 2.0 names please just go away??
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Any site that uses this is one I'll never visit again.
- Scyth3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Now if only I will be able to remember the domain with the lacking "e"...
- canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5i have resolved to not use any web site/services that drop vowels from their name anymore. ***** is dead as disco.
- n00854180t, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's HTML overlayed on the position of the video, so should be quite possible to block these with things like Adblock.
- cmdrNacho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Just view source on the page, and go to video site directly screw these guys, and people trying to make money off of other people's work. Its f'n ridiculous. This is just as bad as ebaum's stealing video and making ad revenue.
the guys from that company all look like scumbags anyways - Archon810, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Precisely what I was thinking. Adblock Plus FTW.
- invasi0n, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3They can't even imagine how much I hate ADS. After watching that demo I clicked on Tools>Adblock Pus...>Add Filter...>*prerollr*
To me all this Web 2.0 = Advertising ONLY = SPAM.
Thank God somebody invented Ad Block! - SweetyCheeks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is IN YOUR FACE advertising, I have ad's on my site but would never sink so low as to pull this kind of crap!
(A personal pet peeve... The proper spelling for Prerollr is P r e r o l l e r - Just a rant). - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Great idea, but unfortunately a lot of people will be making money from other people's work.
- cobra1122, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1sit down, mirror anyone?
- lordtyros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Forget you. I love disco.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I can see my taint!
- Archon810, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't feel like sitting down, is that OK?
- theBlackCloud, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1An advertiser seems to being charged for an ad with no click through (i imagine it unlikely someone would click on the ad rather than try and find out what video is hiding below the ad by closing it), all it effectively does is remove the ad, so the advertiser is paying for a service that brands them as an annoyance...
- nintapple, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1as interesting as prerollr.com's product is, it seems as like preroller.com's product is functionally better...
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever!
- darnit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I was waiting for the ad to play. I thought it was an actual preroll and not just a positioned image. They should change their name to closebuttonr
- Skeuomorph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That never happens on the Internet. I mean, imagine if instead of creating content, you just, I don't know, had people write summaries of content from somewhere else on the Internet, and put your own ads on those summaries. And imagine if you didn't even pay the people writing the summaries, just let them sort of compete to see if their summary could get to the home page. Heck, by not paying editors, you might even be able to create a sort of pyramid of folks grabbing content from yet other people's work, putting it on their own pages, putting ads on that, then writing summaries for your site, in a sort of perpetual multi-level marketing machine! Can you imagine?
- midwestwx, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1http://seeds.fjydsz.net/
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's just a DIV layer over the Flash movie. You should be able to accomplish the same thing with any other ad product, such as Google AdSense.
- columbusgeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I never saw an ad when I tested it on Camino with a TON of blocks in my hosts file.
- ezkash, on 02/08/2008, -0/+1Bout time. http://silverdi.com
- ChrisF79, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4This is brilliant really. I can't believe we haven't seen this before but I'm definitely adding it to my site.
- wwerner, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Oh my god, this is pure evil.
Thanks Adblock. - wwerner, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This is pure evil!
Thanks Adblock. - Arlieth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I actually like the simplicity of this, since I create videos that are often 60-90 minutes long and therefore ineligible for ad-sharing sites such as Revver. (These are game tournaments that cover quarterfinals to grand finals) Also, I only use it for content that either I've produced or was involved in producing. I can see how a system like this can be abused by using other people's content, which is not so cool, but if there was a way that it was linked to the content creator/You Tube account, it would work well.
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