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I can get u banned.
I wonder if it will ever be possible to preload all content in a window before the window even appears. If this were possible it would be a great thing for popup advertisers. Many people close popups before anything even loads in them, but if we could have everything preload, even these people would get at least a glimpse of what is inside the popup before they close it, and I think it would increase the clickthrough ratio dramatically as far as popups are concerned.
Another idea is an alternative outlook at why advertising is dying. Due to bigger monitors, people now are using a much higher resolution than they were 5 years ago. If they made a bigger banner which measured, say, 900*200 instead of 468*60, it would catch more people's attention. Really, when you look in through 640*480 banners stand out a lot more than they do in 1024*768. They are tiny and nearly transparent in higher resolutions since most people ignore them.
Now, there are still some people out there who click on any popup that is the least bit deceptive. My stepmom clicks on about 30% of the banners that she sees I would guess; that's the way that she surfs the web, almost from banner to banner.
Another idea is an alternative outlook at why advertising is dying. Due to bigger monitors, people now are using a much higher resolution than they were 5 years ago. If they made a bigger banner which measured, say, 900*200 instead of 468*60, it would catch more people's attention. Really, when you look in through 640*480 banners stand out a lot more than they do in 1024*768. They are tiny and nearly transparent in higher resolutions since most people ignore them.
Now, there are still some people out there who click on any popup that is the least bit deceptive. My stepmom clicks on about 30% of the banners that she sees I would guess; that's the way that she surfs the web, almost from banner to banner.
