[Ricardo]

Hopefully this is in the right area - Does anybody remember those audio ads that were supposedly being put into place about a year ago?

The idea was that a five second audio ad would play as your site loaded and you'd make money per incident.

I think that's a controversial idea because many people don't like automatic audio playing, particularly if they're surfing at work.

I think that company offering the ads has come and gone.

[st_hart]

I agree with that. As a visitor, I found audio ads is more annoying than entertaining. It's also make the web pages loading slower. We will hate it especially if we have a limited monthly bandwidth.

[Ricardo]

There have been very few times when I thought that it was appropriate.

I don't mind audio playing at a musical artist's site. I think a better option may be to offer a jukebox at the site.

[AdvBus]

Yeah, I remember hearing about that company. I think they were supposed to launch in Feb 08. Audio ads would be too annoying. People would just turn the sound down or leave your site.

[jennyB]

For me, audio advertisement is not that annoying, because I don't usually turn on the sound. I think audio-visual advertisements are more popular now. I see them sometimes on Yahoo. But I don't like the way they made, because the advertisements are sometimes too large to ignore, and I can't have them closed, but have to let the advertisement run and finish.

[wolschulze]

Originally Posted by Ricardo

Hopefully this is in the right area - Does anybody remember those audio ads that were supposedly being put into place about a year ago?

The idea was that a five second audio ad would play as your site loaded and you'd make money per incident.

I think that's a controversial idea because many people don't like automatic audio playing, particularly if they're surfing at work.

I think that company offering the ads has come and gone.

I'm sure that the Audio Ads is one of the most annoying things in the Internet. I like to surf. And sometimes I'm surfing and doing some works simultaneously and this type of Ads disturbs me very much.

[Ricardo]

I think that the theory behind the company was that there would be tolerance of short audio ads of around 5 seconds.

I kind of thought that may be the case, considering how many ads there are on radio and TV... And at movie theatres.