So! You are looking for pop up display advertising?! Nearly every other website continues to use pop up advertising as it has proved to be very effective, consistent in drawing the attention of people and capable of converting eyeballs into sales. In fact, pop up advertising has been so successful that it flooded the net and made all other kinds of advertising nearly impossible. And the reason pop up advertising is so reviled today is because of this very success.
Pop up advertising was successful, but pop ups are everywhere. At one point of time, pop up advertising became so omniscient and irritating that many people raised a hue and cry about how it was messing their surfing experience. Each time a surfer would open a new window, a pop up advertising specimen would come up and distract him/her from the actual surfing.
This was all fine in the initial days when pop up advertising was still a novelty and much sought after, but soon, especially since it was popping up everywhere, people tired of it. It was just a short transition from that to getting exasperated with pop up advertising and people made that transition real quick. And pop up advertising became a dirty word in the online space.
Small wonder then that pop up advertising is better known today for the number of software and companies that try to eradicate it than the number of companies that specialize in producing it. The valuable bandwidth that it occupies and the near nothing returns that it generates has ensured that producers of pop up advertising have been driven underground for the most part. Those who remain in the sphere, do so as eradicators of pop up advertising. There are a number of anti pop up advertising software available, either as free downloads or as packaged offers with other anti virus software.
This in itself is a telling point against the use of pop up advertising. Virus programs are malicious programs written to extract information from a users computers or to use other computers for the transmission of memory hogging, virulent programs. But pop up advertising had very similar aims when it started out.
Pop up advertising aimed to present users with a viable and attractive alternative to conventional advertising avenues on the web. When it first came about, pop up advertising was heralded as revolutionary, exciting and some experts even predicted that it would soon root out all other forms of advertising online.
They were right, but in a self destructive sort of way. The initial success of pop up advertising led to its rampant abuse. It would be safe to say that no other form of advertising since the dawn of civilization has enjoyed as much fame and abuse as pop up advertising has. So from a exciting and new age medium, pop up advertising evolved, or should one rather day devolved, into something little better than spam.
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