Advertising Hall of Shame Nomination: Lower My Bills
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 many of them, but this is the first I’ve found since starting on this ad-rating project. Upon page-load, the video starts where an attractive woman is nuzzling a goofy guy. After several seconds the video stops and will resume if you mouse over it.
Rusty Griswold: I think he’s gonna pork her, Dad.
Clark Griswold: Just eat your breakfast, Russ.
Rusty still watching
Clark Griswold: He’s not gonna pork her, Russ.
Rusty Griswold: I think he’s gonna.
Clark Griswold: He may pork her, finish your breakfast.
This is reason #4,241 why we have ad blocking.
April 20th, 2006 at 10:15 am
I am in the business of internet marketing and have been looking at lower my bills crazy unrelated ads for a while now. The first really random unreliable creative that got my attention was what appeared to be an animated robot of some kind living in a dungeon, dancing and playing a xylophone. I understand how these ads seem to be good candidates for your hall of shame, but I think there is an understated brilliance to the concept of these ads, they get our attention. Trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the ad is what gets you to look at the ad. For example what are these two weird people doing cuddling and why is the quality of their image fuzzy and what does that have to do with lowering my bills, simple genius, you have just spend a minute looking at an ad you would have normally just passed over. My company who business is similar to lower my bills with our student loans consolidation- product, could lean a thing or two from this unique form of web advertising.
September 6th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
I totally disagree. The lower my bills ad with the woman in all black walking across a roof trying not to fall to her death is very disturbing. Sure it got my attention. Enough for me to come here and to talk to them. But, the attention they got from me was not positive, but I would now do anything not to use them.
September 14th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Interestingly enough the Lower My Bill ad running on 9/14/06 featured a couple silhouetted by a full moon as a backdrop. They dance in animation back and forth across the roof of a house. Two phallic shaped exhaust vents to the couple’s lower left protrude through the roof stand erect as the man’s rear end bumps up against one of them three times in rhythum. The young girl appears to be nude and is a bit overweight. The man, while he doesn’t seem nude, has one bum arm that never allows his hand to go above his waist while the other arm and hand freely flow in the air consistant with someone dancing. In certain moving positions the bum arm wiggles from his crotch making it appear as a large silhouetted penis. Hmmmm? Sounds like another Hall of Shame candidate.
September 15th, 2006 at 3:50 am
Gary, you’re spot on about the latest dancing in front of the moon ad. I didn’t look long enough to (consciously) notice the subliminal messaging, but I need to look again!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:34 am
i hate these ads so much i just googled them and came across this page. this kind of work is what gives advertising such a bad rap. advertising can be fresh, new, and interesting but these are just pretty much the bottom of the barrel. what makes it even more annoying is the multiple placements on pages. so on cnn.com you have not just 2 unattractive blobs gyrating across your screen but you have four. i do have to confess that the dancing man does seem to hold my interest longer than the blob of a woman but that still does not mean i would have even the slightest bit of confidence in this company. i would purposely avoid them much like any other company i detest because of their ads, logo, etc.
October 1st, 2006 at 10:33 am
I have to agree with most everyone’s comments so far…I would add that not all attention is equally positive. If I notice you because you are an ass doesn’t mean that i will ever come to like you, same with these ads, they are irratating to the extreme. Particularly the dancing couple, for some reason I hate that one the most. I actually USED to have a positive impression of Lower My Bills now I despise them. Their ads are large, stupid, purposely ugly and the animation is designed to distract you from your primary objective which is to read the Web page content, not the ad.
Of course, I reserve my largest serving of hate for the “Eye Blaster” type of Ad which “floats” above the page content on a separate layer and scrolls down with you so you can’t get rid of it, extra points go to the ads that actually COVER the paqe content and, similarly, the only way to get rid of them is to hit the close box which only serves the creator’s purpose - to make you interact in some way with their ad.
Yahoo! is even using an Eye Blaster type ad on My Yahoo asking if you want to participate in some survey…NO!
October 2nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
Like design_officer, I was bothered by these ads so much that I Googled it just to see if it bugged anybody else. I have never Googled ads because they bugged me before. I’m glad at least that the dancers stop after about 10 second (unless you roll over them), and not that I have any bills to lower, but if I did, I sure as hell wouldn’t use lowermybills.com
October 5th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
A little late but I too loathed the Lower my Bills ad with the sultry silhouetted dancers. I knew right off the bat what they were doing…and to say so would mean even this comment would have to be censored. I noticed an ad today with what appears to be ballet dancers. A bit better.
October 7th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
I was glad to find this site and others who detest the Lower My Bills ads! Most recently there has been there a banner ad on hotmail.com with a pair of cowboys instead of the dancing couple. This graphic is less disturbing than the gyrating couple, but still makes absolutely no sense. Moonlight silhouettes dancing on a rooftop (which only vaguely looks like a roof) for a mortgage consolidation company . . . are we to assume that if we, too, use Lower My Bills that we will pay off our mortgage or save so much money that we will be inspired to dance for joy on our rooftops? It is just irritating!
October 9th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I hate these ads so much that I, too sought out somewhere to vent about them.
The funniest thing EVER about the LowerMyBills ads is the time I saw one on a Yahoo! News story about people taking out stupid mortgages they can’t afford. You can’t script this stuff.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:45 am
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October 21st, 2006 at 3:15 pm
That fat chick dancing in the ad is hot!
October 27th, 2006 at 8:49 am
I googled lowermybills ad to see if there were anyone just as irritated as me with the two stupid looking dancers. Look at that guy, who dances like that? he’s flipping his leg like a jerkoff. And why is that fat biatch so happy? She should be sad that she looks so fat. I wish they would both fall off the roof
thanks
I feel better
October 30th, 2006 at 5:57 am
I totally agree that the dancing is annoying! I wish it would end! Now they are dancing on some guy’s tatoo! When will it stop? Is there anyway to make them go away?! What if there was a chain e-mail that asked people to contact lower-my-bills and asked them to not post the ad? Maybe that would work. Do they really get hits from it anyway? Who would click on it, except in an attempt to make it stop? Thanks for having this spot to vent about it. I wouldn’t ever use their company! I just want the ads to stop gyrating so I can read the articles.
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:42 pm
The lowermybills dancing ads are the most ANNOYING ads ever made. Yes, I now know the company but I HATE them…would never, EVER think of using them.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Am I the only one that finds the dancing couple to be strangely hypnotic? I could stare at that gyrating ad all day! Hooray for lowermybills!
November 6th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
I too, find Lowermybills’ ads truly offensive (and what do they have to do with the subject??????) What’s up with the tattoo? And why does this woman have such a friggin ROLL? Bad enough I have to see so many fat people in everyday life — I don’t want to see them in advertisements.
November 9th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
The LowerMyBills ads have been poorly designed too. Remember the one with the monkey eating his banana? If you look closely, when you put your cursor over the monkey it jumps in the air. However, the shadow below the monkey continues to make the motion of the monkey eating the banana. Then, when you highlight over the shadow, it turns red and jumps in the air while the monkey above is enjoying his banana. It’s funny but sad.
A more recent example: the ad with the two cowboys dancing. Notice that the cowboy claps after he turns left and right. The first clap looks normal, but the second clap clearly looks like the silhouette is playing backwards (i.e. he’s “reverse clapping” or clapping outwards). A minute detail, but another example of the poor quality of their ads.
November 10th, 2006 at 8:06 am
areacode212 - you’re not the only one. Hypnotic and annoying at the same time.
November 10th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
If so many people find this ad annoying, why is it still up ang going? Everytime I go to read the MSN news I am haunted by these lame dancers who I wish would just fall off the roof. Thats horrible advertising if your looking to bring in buisness. Sure it might catch your attention but rather then wanting to click and lower some bills your wanting to find a place to ask, who the hell thought about putting some lame dancers up to advertise for their site. And more so, why a geeky looking guy and a fat girl? Jack sprat and his wife dancing the night away after deciding on their dinner problems.
Someone post an email link so we can write to these bozo people and let them know how much this ad is frustrating people! If I see it one more time I am going to vomit black shadow lame dancing chunkies.
November 10th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
I am so glad I ran across this site. I have already written lowermybills.com and told them how I feel about their horrible ads. I asked them if there was any way I could stop the ads from appearing on my computer. As of yet, I am still awaiting their answer. These ads make me so angry that I feel like going on a shooting rampage. Honestly. The 80’s called, it wants its clip art back.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Whomever said the woman dancer is attractive needs glasses. She’s a fat slob and I wish her big asspiration never showed up on my screen. By far the most annoying ads since Head On…
November 11th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
You all need to get a life, those banner ads are awesome! Banners are so ineffective these days and the cowboys dancing and the man and big butt woman in the moonlight are fantastic and effective. My goodness, doesn’t anyone have anything else to do? I can’t believe I’m posting this. I was searching to find out who designed the banners so I could do something similar for my business and came across this page of whiners. Amazing.
November 12th, 2006 at 7:46 am
I found this blog because I also wanted to know how they did those catchy ads.
November 13th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
The sad thing is that my dog probably has a higher credit rating than anyone who would respond to one of these ads. The dancing couple emanates the essence of the trailer trash, bottom feeders endlessly paraded across the stage of “The Jerry Springer Show.” The woman looks like she’s wiping her bum every so often!
November 16th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
The silhouetted dancers ad is VERY sexually explicit. You can freeze the ad at a specific place, and the male dancer’s left arm is below his waist (how, I have no idea) sticking straight up like an erect penis. At the EXACT same time, the woman has BOTH of her arms in the air and is looking down at her below-the-waist area as if to be preparing for him. This is an outrage.
Then there is the silhouetted cowboy dancer with a hat on (male). When he dances all the way to his left, he appears to be masturbating, NOT CLAPPING!! This is not the first such LowerMyBills banner ad to use blatant sexual imagery and innuendo to catch the attention of consumers. Ban them!
November 18th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
These advertisers are trying to steal your souls.
And your wallet.
I’m not joking.
November 19th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
omg!!! i came here for the same reaosn you all did, those annoying dancers. i hate them!!! lowermybills.com is a experian company, ao i dont know to consider the company a scam or not, but the banners just make lowermybills as a typical scam. i was suprised to see that kind of banner on ebay.
thankfully, im not the only one fiding them annoying, i want the punche the monkey back. i would never trust my mortgage or anything to a company with such unprofessional banners.
p.s. kill the fat girl.
November 20th, 2006 at 11:44 am
It’s sort of validating to know that there are people out there that have the same reaction to these ads as I do. I loathe them. The dancing, dry-humping one is the worst. But all of them are bad. That guitar-playing monster was horrible. And it’s funny…the new tattoo one is bad enough, but then they added the dancers as if they thought they were just SO good…they had to bring them back for a reprise. Gosh I’d like to hunt down the people responsible for these. Anything for money.
November 21st, 2006 at 10:29 am
Okay, thanks folks. I have been getting seriously angry when I check the weather everyday on weather.com. I don’t even know why something so stupid can get to me, but the fat girl dancing with the skinny guy pisses me off so bad. They are also continuing the negative stereotype of white people dancing. The cowboy… aggg!!; also makes me so mad. So thank you folks, i seriously can’t believe i googled “i hate lowermybills banners” and found this post. Lol… Awesome.
November 21st, 2006 at 10:53 am
By the way, of all the things to be offended by, I’m a little bugged (again) that many of you are focusing on “the fat girl”. First, she’s not that fat (Gilligan). But even if she was, so what? If the advertisers wanted to get your attention about a FAT girl, these assholes would have made her FFFAAAAT. Maybe, just maybe, they decided to be slightly decent for once in their miserable lives and use the shape of an ordinary girl…who happens to really be into music…and apparently really happy to dance with a dry-humping, rubber-spined jerk. Would you have preferred it if she was shaped like the silhouetted girl pictured on truck mudflaps? Dancing erotically, wiggling her hips, flipping her hair this way and that, shoving her ample swollen breasts out toward Mr. Humpy?
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:33 am
I HATE the the lowermybills.com banners! The first time I saw the ad with the dancing couple on a Yahoo site I informed Yahoo that I was offended by the moves of the male dancer and that they should remove the ad from their site. Of course they didn’t. Because of their advertisements, even if I had a mortgage to refinance lowermybills.com would be the LAST place I’d turn.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Hello all–and here I was, googling these ads, thinking that my tolerance for cr*p had just gone WAY down. And here y’all are–so happy to see you!
I feel better knowing I am not the only person who feels intense hatred for these ads. I hated them the first time I saw them–remember that weird cobra-snake thing? Someone here mentioned that they might be brilliant because they get your attention. I’m thinking not–like others here, I would NEVER use whatever these morons are selling just becuase their ads are SO annoying. Jack-in-the-Box’s Jack is brilliant–LowerMyBills is ridiculous.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Just noticed this–there is a LowerMyBills link on the top of this page, says ads by Google. Ugh. Thanks, Google.
November 22nd, 2006 at 8:12 pm
The ads made me wonder if the shadow people were real. When I was single, I would have probably asked that female dancer to marry me!
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Be warned — dozens of archived LowerMyBills.com ads here, including all the much loved/hated classics described above:
http://adverlicio.us/industry/lowermybills_com
Enjoy!
November 24th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Now it is the tatoo ?? with an animated ‘PIG’ on someones arm ?? Very interesting the grotesque distorded ad’s these people come up with.
I cant stand these ads and when I do need a mortgage , I will be sure to NOT select lowermybills !
Dave
November 24th, 2006 at 10:40 am
omg, yes. they got a tattoo ad, but two cowboys are dancing.
i know the ad company just wont stop making the ads unless they are told to by lowermybills. and im not really sure its a marketing company. im not a flash genius, but i know a big company like experian could hire someone with skills rather than whoever makes these ads (probably the presidents kid, wife, a marketing genius, who knows). I mean, my 13 yr old brother could make ANY of the banners, im serious!!
One thing i must accept, is that this marketing strategy is pure genius. It DOES attract people’s attention, a LOT!!
BUT… i doubt anyone would even think of getting a mortgage there. IF i was lower my bills, i would change my advertising strategy just for a little bit, a few months. change the ads, for something more professional, and give it a try, lets see if there are more clicks, sales, people interested, etc.
i cant believe someone showed the marketing guy “hey john, i got the ads ready!! i got this new one with the geek and the fat chick on he roof with the moon on the back dancing when you put the mouse over! oh, i couldn’t finish the tattoo with the two cowboys dancing on his arm, ill have it next month, to make up for my delay, ill make it extra annoying, i promise!!”
seriously ceo, marketing guy, whoever is in charge, try a new set of ads, these are just pissing people off.
this is awesome:
http://adverlicio.us/industry/lowermybills_com
November 24th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
As annoying as “we” all think these ads are, “we” all took time out to search for a site that compiled the opinions of others that detest those ads as well. Pure genius are those ads. I am not a marketing expert or anything of the sort, but if an unsolicited ad can make us burn inside and cause us to spend our valuable time commenting on their disturbing work, it’s a success. Imagine those that clicked on that ad “just to see” what all the hoopla was about.
1. Have it your way
2. 15 minutes can save you 15%
3. Are you in good hands?
4. You can do it, we can help
These are just a few ad slogans that may not be as agitating, but attain the same level of response. Golden Arches says nothing in the form of words but are a powerful symbol. Advertising pays off, whether you like it or not.
November 24th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
I still think that the “fat chick” probably would have had the prettiest face I had ever seen. Speaking from experience as she was a great dancer and she would have made a great wife! I did check the website to see if I could buy anything from them if not a mortgage. The advertiser deserves kudos as it got me wondering!
November 29th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
I’m glad I came upon this site, I have hated these ads for so long they are on every site and are very distracting and stupid. A dancing cowboy tattoo, c’mon, what’s wrong with these people. Granted they got my attention and we’re even annoying enough to have me post a comment, but I would NEVER use a company with ads like this. Moreover, there are new ever more annoying ones coming out daily it seems.
December 2nd, 2006 at 1:28 pm
yeah, they used the same arm, now with a pig….
what is wrong with these people!!! ahhh!! cant stand it!! u knwo why? because i use ebay a lot, and there is nothing but lowermybills ads!!! both on top and bottom left menu!!!
cant they try other method? im sure there are more ways to draw attention without annoying a potential customer. or probably thats what they want, attract the ignorant internet user into a mortgage they cant afford. there is no way someoen with common sense would trust a company that advertises this way.
mortgage professionals? i dont think so, scam artists, probably, at least thats what the ads tell you.
December 5th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Unfortunatly this is what has boiled down to.
Since the commercialization of the internet, it has been geared in some of these directions: “Make it so easy, any simpleton can access it.” Case in point: AOL. AOL has made it so any tool with access to even someone elses computer can go online. The premis being that everyone should be able to access the net. NO! Some people shouldnt be allowed to operate a car, [no insurance, repete offenders] some people shouldnt be allowed to have a gun [felons] and some people shouldnt be on the net. [morons]
“Sell to every simpleton on the net.” This is where lowermybraincells.com come into play. They are targeting remedials who think that kind of advertising is “cute” or”cool”. As some one posted earlier, “the Springer crowd”, people who watch wrestling or worse, think it’s real!, the CMA-types… i guess even trailers have mortgages and lowermystandards.com wants them.
I was curious just how many successful sales they got, but i’m betting it is enuf to warrant the advertising on sites such as Hotmail and Yahoo. I am also perplexed that people who respond to that kind of sad advertising can even own homes [again i think of trailers] unless they inhereted them from their dissapointed parents.
Just my 2 cents worth, i’m sure the worthlessness of lowerthequalityoflife.com will continue to pump out the crap as long as there are marks out there to justify paying for the advertising.
P-
December 6th, 2006 at 12:49 am
Hell, I’m looking to refinance, and I *still* wouldn’t even consider these guys. The first ads I saw were the dancing men and the tattoos. It just made me sorry to think about what kind of a person might actually like these ads and decide to get a mortgage from them. Sadly, there are probably a lot of rednecks over their eyeballs in adjustable mortgages right now that might find this BS appealing.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
The crux of the issue is twofold:
1) As the rules of advertisement as we see them is concerned, we feel insulted that these people think we’d be somehow amused by silhoutted flash cartoons, especially when they have no connection to the product. Furthermore, we feel manipulated by their attempts to steal the focus from the webpage with something so rinky-dink.
2) Then there’s the fact that the ad is just not really good to begin with. Nothing inherently about the ad is funny, or awe-inspiring, or amusing in general, except that perhaps it may appeal to the most primitive part of our brains as moving objects on the screen.
It’s all psychology. But where advertisers underestimate our ability to be amused, they’ll do well to hear the backlash they create if they know what’s good for them.
December 10th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I have written the “Lower My Bills” people, telling them how offensive I think their “dancing dry humper” ad is. I suspect others have let them know this as well, because it appears they have responded. In their most recent stupid ad, they have the dancers come out and do a couple of cycles, then they give them the big hook–vaudeville style–and replace them with the pen writing on the arm bit, as if to say “yeah, we think they suck too! But here’s something we KNOW you all LOVE! IT’S THE ARM TATTOO KIDS! YAY!” Uh-huh.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:07 am
does anyone else think that it’s ironic that a lowermybills.com ad link is at the top of this page? it is on mine anyway, and it sucks. i came to this page for the same reason as many of you. i have written to yahoo (no response as yet). i also have tried a few times to click on the “ad feedback” link at the very bottom of a given yahoo page, but no luck. the stupid gyrating dancers, a spastic idiot waving his arms & hips, and a pair of cowboys have all continued to flail on various yahoo pages. can we get a hacker on these jackasses?
December 13th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Such generalized ads have to cater to what is called the lowest common denominator as they say .Which mean they end up being dumb. Whether there is scientific evidence for this tendency to dumb down is a question that needs to be asked . Does any one know here?
Don Lapre is a Superstar
webmaster@j-ams.org
www.j-ams.org
December 13th, 2006 at 10:05 am
To Don Lapre: If you are, indeed Don Lapre, King of Informercials, let me take this opportunity to say how ironic and hypocritical it is for you to come here and complain about catering to lowest common denominator. The hypocrisy is so obvious that I tend to believe that you’re *not* this self-proclaimed panderer.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:41 am
1) These ads have annoyed me for a long time. The dreadlocked woman needs to go away now. I just saw a “new” one this morning as a matter of fact. The new one has a cowboy guy with a hat doing some stupid dance, whats more annoying is that he is cloned a few times horizontally in the ad.
2) They DO manage to get a my attention, but they will never manage to get my business.
3) As a professional multimedia developer, I feel bad for the person putting these things together. I feel bad because this person really needs to find another line of work. The layout, the fonts - shhheeeessssh.
My 5 year old son could do a better job at creating aesthetically pleasing content then the boob (or boobs) at lowermybills.com
December 14th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
1. Everyone has to make a stand against LowerMyBills.com. Their ads are extremely distasteful and beyond annoying. I feel they are subliminally making everyone who views them into harbringers of extremely bad taste!
2. It would be a great relief to put whoever is in charge of advertising and ANYONE who works there at LMBills into a dark room with these dancing fatties, punching 80’s shoulder suited MC Hammer lookalike, and the Garth Brooks sashsaying cowboy clapmation playing over and over until they beg for mercy and leave the USA with their families and seek redemption by helping starving children in Africa!
3l How about making huge stickers with epoxy adhesive of these annoying silouhettes and mosey on over to the Santa Monica office headquarters of LowerMyBills.com and plaster these disposable stickers all over their employees cars. I have gone to the LMBills site and opened the online comment page and let them have it on how bad those ads are and how all of their employess are condemed to something whatever it is that is worst than hell.
I also think Yahoo.com who has a say in promoting this abominable filth should take heed to all of our complaints and stop pandering to the lowest common denominator of all, MORTGAGE ADS…. just stop and perhaps they could also take a stand, and really make an attempt to stop SPAM.
sincerly,
Arbritrator of Good Design
December 14th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
To Don’s question, there are some studies that were done by the Frankfurt School that identify the key motivators of the masses. The best known member of the Frankfurt School, also known as the Critical Theorists, was Herbert Marcuse, but there was also Theodore Adorno (who did an deconstruction of the LA Times Astrology column in the 1950’s) and Max Horkheimer. These 3 were Germans who fled Germany and were both attracted to and appalled by the garish nature of American advertising (not unlike our reaction to the LMB ads).
I came here for the same reason all of you did. I wanted to know who did these ads and understand why they were seemingly so effective. I really appreciate the LMB archive pages. But does anybody know the agency or designer responsible?
BTW, for the record, I don’t agree that these are simple ads that any 15 year old could create. They are very cunningly designed.
I am thinking of how to get the word out for Greenhome.com, my website, that tries to interest Americans in buying environmentally friendly products. I thought if I could do a *good* version of what these are, I would try it on a few places. But I don’t know.
~ Lawrence “Axil” Comras
December 15th, 2006 at 6:43 am
Lawrence Axil Comras said :
“I don’t agree that these are simple ads that any 15 year old could create. They are very cunningly designed.”
Not sure if you are referring to the brains behind the ideas or the actual “artist(s)” creating the content.
I agree in that the ads do get people to look. There is obviously someone behind the scenes who thought the idea out quite well. That is where the “cunning” element is. However, the end result is an extremely poor execution in terms of design and layout. FYI, I know a 15 year old that could have done a much better job putting these things together. Once again, I am referring design execution.
What LMB went with is not a good way IMO to have their company represented on the internet. I am referring to the below average design capability of whoever is putting these things together. Not to mention the subpar Flash execution. These would suffice as ‘decent’ Flash creations had they come out in 1998. Are there any professional graphics people in this thread actually think these are examples of good design?
December 15th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Is it genius to have the image of somebody dancing or jumping up and down while I try to read an article? I don’t think so. How cunning it is have a quickly moving object in a persons peripheral vision? It reminds me of a child screaming for attention. It’s the lowest form of adverstising and requires little imagination. These ads are annoying and I always refresh when I see them. But…… I guess this is the price to pay for living in a capitalist society.
December 16th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Lowermybills.com is owned by Experian. Experian is one of the big three personal credit rating firms. Why does Yahoo.com allows them to put their annoying ads on practically every page you click on in yahoo from the mail browser, sports and more?
Please start a mass email campaign stating your complaints to Experian in writing or feel free to call them in person.
Here are the contact information and email addresses for Experian.
Corporate headquarters
Experian
475 Anton Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714 830 7000
Media Relations
By phone: 714 830 5300
By email: mediarelations@experian.com
regards,
geniusman
December 17th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
I installed an ad blocker in firefox and then email Yahoo and double-click letting them know I was blocking there ads.
December 18th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
The dancers are bad, but about six months ago it was worse. They had animals stretched across the entire banner with the states listed as links in the middle. I don’t know why it bothered me so much but I couldn’t stand it. I wrote to tell them that even though I need a loan soon to buy a house I will not choose them.
December 18th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
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December 19th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Thank you all for this tremendous page, it made my morning. I, too, am filled with hatred for the many different ads described above. They make me want to drive a fork into each of my eyes all the way to my brain. What drives me insane is that these ads are found on what one might describe as reputable websites like Yahoo! and eBay. I would think that eBay, as successful an enterprise as it is, wouldn’t need to supplement its revenue with this garbage. But clever, I suppose, on the part of LMB, since their ubiquitous claim “Bad Credit OK!” caters very well to shopping degenerates who buy too much merchandise on eBay and have subsequently accrued lots of debt and ruined their credit… if such people exist.
(Incidentally, I have seen similar ads for low.com, another seemingly-unrelated company that advertises mortgage refinancing using unrelated imagery. For instance, I just saw one minutes ago, on eBay.com, with a raging bull pissed off at me for apparently paying too much on my mortgage.)
Oh, and the dancing silhouette I would most like to punch in the face is the male crotch-thrusting character that dances with the dreadlocked silhouette female.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:43 am
How about the obvious man arm with the pink fingernail polish getting a tattoo?!! Weird. I wrote LowerMyBills and told them I hoped all their characters fall off the roof and get whiplash dancing so hard. These ads actually made me try to uninstall my flash player.
December 20th, 2006 at 8:59 am
I’ve complained to lowermybills, Yahoo, and anybody else with there ads on their pages. I’m so sick of them that I disabled Flash and only turn it on if I need it for something.
December 21st, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Here is the link to leaving feedback with Yahoo.com.
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_search_feedback
Please make an intelligent case in stating why you dislike LowerMyBill’s advertising.
HOPEFULLY someone responsible at Yahoo.com will come to their senses. Let’s get them to stop perpetuating these crimes against mankind’s RIGHT to having a PLEASANT and ENJOYABLE experience at one’s own computer and the internet.
We have that right, lets do something about it, let them know!
regards,
geniusman
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
These ads make me physically angry. I have reserved a nice nose punch for that broad that started all these friggin ads (Forget her name but you can Google it)
The one thing I know, I would never, ever, ever do business with those morons, ever. So yeah, their ads worked all right. They guarenteed this Amercian will never do business with them, ever.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
“that broad that started all these friggin ads….”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/business/media/18adco.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
May 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
secured credit cards…
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