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He sings, he strums, and he works at Best Buy. view!
www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- Powermac, on 02/14/2008, -11/+754Hilarity - just happened twice while submitting this story. FU STUPID DIGG ADS
- ani625, on 02/14/2008, -17/+661You mean you used digg WITHOUT adblock till now?
- GhostyBoy, on 02/14/2008, -8/+516Why don't they put ads for stuff diggers might actually buy?
I'm thinking video games and books etc. I leave adblock off, cause digg deserves to make some cash, but Christ, advertise something I might actually click. - Jalh, on 02/14/2008, -8/+494http://i26.tinypic.com/w0qn9j.jpg
- daurkin, on 02/14/2008, -4/+462I can't wait for AdBlock being available for my TV. I hate when shows are displaying text at the bottom of the screen right when the station decides to display a huge ad like this.
- archivist, on 02/14/2008, -2/+347i work for an interactive advertising agency and we spent weeks designing these types of banner ads and clients pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. ironically, all of us in the office naturally hate ads and banner ads and we have ad blocks installed on our browsers.
it's just sad that it takes a lot of meticulous process to cram animation content into a 30kb banner and nobody, not even us in the development side gives a flying ***** about banners. - Asvetic, on 02/14/2008, -13/+291I didn't even know Digg had ads... weird?!
- jsd8cc, on 02/14/2008, -1/+275Leela: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree. - synthox, on 02/14/2008, -6/+219Take a moment of silence to remember the Snorg T-shirt girls. Those were better times on digg.
- mywhitenoise, on 02/14/2008, -3/+186I just want Dolby to fix that ***** volume rise for local commercials. i'll be watching Nip/Tuck or South Park and the volume is at a reasonable level, all of the sudden some commercial comes on and the sound coming from my speakers are twice as loud.
- Narcism, on 02/14/2008, -11/+134Your right, males watching nip/tuck should be imprisoned.
- awfulshot, on 02/14/2008, -3/+120Digg isn't the only reason to install adblock.. If you have been to any other website on the internet, which you might not have, you would have installed adblock+ long ago.
- Navicerts, on 02/14/2008, -2/+84I miss the days of 100% snorg tee's ad's
- DiggLive, on 02/14/2008, -4/+83http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
You won't see ads with that in your host file. Works with all browsers too. - staxofmax, on 02/14/2008, -6/+83It's about time somebody FINALLY submitted a story about Adblock!!!
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -0/+72They don't actually raise the volume - they just basically compress the sound into a more limited range so it sounds louder - you can check it with a decibel meter if you have one - It's a bastard way to circumvent the law.
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -2/+69Indeed. Digg, it's time to change. You were once on my whitelist, but that was a long time ago. Here's the deal. Kill the video ads, kill the rollover ads, kill the ads that pop out of their boxes. We'll accept nothing more brazen then the snorg tee girls. That's how you get yourself back on my whitelist.
Note: If you ever, EVER, display an ad that forces crap out of my speakers; blacklisted forever. - DRINKxREDxBULL, on 02/14/2008, -2/+66That is supposed to be illegal.
- DiggzDE, on 02/14/2008, -1/+63Porn ads and fleshlight ads probably aren't allowed on Digg.
- Asvetic, on 02/14/2008, -2/+62Thanks to AdBlock Plus, my erections are harder and my hair has grown in thicker and fuller than ever before!
- jggr, on 02/14/2008, -3/+61Well, if that someone wants to keep paying the bills, perhaps they should listen to their subscribers and bring in ads that aren't annoying and invasive.
To be honest, Digg should've known better. - spyrochaete, on 02/14/2008, -1/+53User patronage ain't free, and it's incredibly easy for us to block ads. If you want us to view ads then don't piss us off EVER or we'll put forth the 45 seconds of effort to install an ad-blocker.
Whatever's on top is what's most important. When Digg shows ads that sprawl over top of the content it proves that they care about your clickthrough ratio more than your patronage. - Badger80, on 02/14/2008, -1/+52I resisted putting Adblock on my computer for quite a while, i know sites need to advertise to pay there way but when Digg had those disgusting pimple ads a few week back i had enough.
- Ki77erB, on 02/14/2008, -2/+49HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR ***** HEAD!!!! HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR ***** HEAD!!!! HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR ***** HEAD!!!! SOMEONE KILL THEM!!
- richard2, on 02/14/2008, -4/+50“ ‘We at Digg couldn't think of a better partner to get to where we need to go’, said Jay Adelson, the company's chief executive officer. ‘They're a young ad service, they're innovative, they're willing to work with us on the cutting edge.’
‘We actually now are in the forefront of what we believe is going to be the next generation of advertising’, said Steve Berkowitz, a senior vice president in Microsoft’s online services group.” - corcad, on 02/14/2008, -2/+47LMAO
- GreenAlien, on 02/14/2008, -1/+46Probably something which is none of your business.
- 00Dan, on 02/14/2008, -5/+50It is illegal, but they are not turning up the volume for commercials. It just appears that way.
They play with the compression levels so that the volume level of the commercial is at the same volume level as an explosion would be on the show you are watching. As long as the decibel level of the loudest part of the commercial does not exceed the loudest part of the stations regular programming it's legal.
FOR EXAMPLE, THIS TEXT IS NOT ANY "LOUDER" WITH CAPS LOCK ON AND DOES NOT TAKE ANY MORE SPACE ON THE SCREEN, BUT IT APPEARS THAT WAY. - apothekari, on 02/14/2008, -5/+48how did we get content on it to this point?
BUGGING the everlovin' piss out of me will not make me purchase your product!
Advertising by letting me know why your product is the one I should choose is ok.
Blocking my view,Screeching at me or otherwise irritating the ***** out of me isn't.
Using my systems resources to put a virtual gun to my head to FORCE me to notice your pitch is *****!
Adblock would not exist if these kind of ads didn't.
Don't defend these kinds of *****! - vpshockwave, on 02/14/2008, -4/+46It's from futurama *****.
- Powermac, on 02/14/2008, -1/+42I won't lie, one was for Obama08 and the other thing... well...
- veilrap, on 02/14/2008, -6/+46Um Ing is something that digger might buy.
- pdensborn, on 02/14/2008, -2/+41You work for Satan.
- nizzy1115, on 02/14/2008, -0/+39ACTUALLY IT DOES TAKE UP MORE SPACE ON THE SCREEN. CHECK OUT THIS EXAMPLE TO SEE WHAT I MEAN.
actually it does take up more space on the screen. check out this example to see what i mean. - rebotfc, on 02/14/2008, -1/+37Yep ever since they moved over to MSN supplied ads the ads have been utter *****. Installed adblock when i started to get malware warnings from the ads Digg was serving.
Ironic thing was it was sites like digg that convinced me back in the day to turn ads on to help support worthwhile sites, but now they just abuse the priveledge. - notque, on 02/14/2008, -13/+47Or it will kill the pay for internet. No profit on the internet. All sharing. All free.
- Zippo, on 02/14/2008, -3/+37It's not just digg... there are several websites I visit everyday with annoying ads that I just don't want to see... They clutter websites and detract from the aesthetic look of the site's design. Take Facebook for example.
I installed AdBlock ages ago and never go without it... and I even work in the advertising industry (as a graphic designer). - GeneralGore, on 02/14/2008, -0/+34And the book is 1984, not 1982.
- Zippo, on 02/14/2008, -4/+37Yes, there is an equivalent: SafariBlock ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19202 )
Not quite as good as Adblock for Firefox, but it works. - yobboninja, on 02/14/2008, -15/+47is there adblock for safari now?
- canewediggit, on 02/14/2008, -3/+34because they would rather run an automated system than hire me to do direct sales.
- centerblack, on 02/14/2008, -2/+31ORLY? Looks like it takes more space to me.
FOR EXAMPLE, THIS TEXT IS NOT ANY "LOUDER" WITH CAPS LOCK ON AND DOES NOT TAKE ANY MORE SPACE ON THE SCREEN, BUT IT APPEARS THAT WAY.
for example, this text is not any "louder" with caps lock on and does not take any more space on the screen, but it appears that way. - DiggzDE, on 02/14/2008, -0/+28Like a really important moment in a show, when some character is speaking and the translation is at the bottom of the screen. Just as they are about to reveal who the mystery killer is, an AD pops up covering the entire bottom of the screen talking about the new, upcoming show about apes who run a hospital. Starring Alec Baldwin's drunk brother and some actress you have never heard of.
Those are my favorite parts. - stilesja, on 02/14/2008, -0/+27until they saw that ad...
- didgital, on 02/14/2008, -0/+27I almost wanted to bury this post for how LONG it took for some folks to get adblock. Can't even remember the last time I saw any ad. Oh yeah, whenever some crappy website doesn't design properly for FF and I have to open an IE tab.
- RealmDown, on 02/14/2008, -2/+28I got pissed one day and started talking at that volume when I went into a store that advertised that way. I explained that it was how they asked me to frequent their establishment, and I they didn't like they should change their ad.
Not that I expected this to do any good, but It was fun and I felt better. - LMH1, on 02/14/2008, -0/+26The key to designing ads that will still get a message through, and avoid site users' revolts and ad blockers is to: 1. Make them relevent to the user and 2. Make them less obtrusive. The one mentioned in this item clearly fails both tests. When it gets in the way of content, then in my opinion it goes too far.
To Digg: I believe that ads are a necessary evil from the user perspective. They allow for valuable free content to be available that otherwise might not be, or would have to be on a pay site. When they are irritating, as this one is, then they ultimately drive the user to look elsewhere for the content, Digg loses, not the ad server. You need to make that clear to your ad supplier. - CrucifiedEgo, on 02/14/2008, -1/+25Digg has ads?
<3 ABP - kupo19, on 02/14/2008, -1/+25I doubt anyone likes them. I bet most of your clickthrus come from accidental clicks when the ad unexpectedly pops out into the content like this one.
I used to use Adblock, but I don't anymore because I would like to see if a site is trying to harass me with ads. If so, I don't go back there. - davewashere, on 02/14/2008, -0/+23This is just an old suit demonstrating why he is useless and could (and should) easily be replaced by a 20-year-old with no higher education. Flash ads are not the cutting edge, they are annoying. Google has made billions in advertising because they seem to get it: match the ads to the audience. ING Direct and wrinkle cream are not matched to the Digg audience. Just because these ads have animation does not make them hip and cool and pop-n-fresh (sorry, I'm a little old for this lingo). I'm not really bothered by these ads unless they get in the way of my browsing experience. What does bother me is a Senior VP from a major company not knowing that he's flushing millions of dollars down the drain.
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