I didn’t see it myself to capture, but this one gets a nod. Shmuly Tennenhaus at Revenews points out one of the most ridiculous ads I’ve seen in a long time. A “Press the Fart Button” ad on The Jerusalem Post. That’s rich.
See it here….
The first nomination for the Adblock.org advertising hall of shame goes to Lower My Bills. It doesn’t take long to find one of their over-the-top ads with creative that has nothing to do with the subject and everything to do with catching your attention. This one was found on Yahoo Finance.
There are […]
I came across the “screen peel” effect, offered by Visual Steel, in real life here: Information Week.
The ad presents itself as a peeled over corner of the web browser. It’s animated and the page corner moves and the content “behind” the exposed corner scrolls by.
When you mouse over the corner, the whole screen […]
A few years ago, we published a simple adblock detection script. Our purpose for this was to catch the users who had Norton Internet Security installed and inform them that the software they have installed may be blocking content (both ads and non-ads) without their knowledge. A few years have passed, and […]