Thursday, October 14, 2010

MySpace and Pathetic Ad Placement

I heard about a band today, Pendulum, and went to their myspace page.  As it turns out, I prefer their more electronic oriented tracks.  Their rock stuff reminds me of Candlebox.  Anyway, the point of this post is not the band, but myspace's absolutely abhorrent, invasive, whored-out ad placement.  They now place display ads that cover up the player.  I'm certain they do this hoping a lot of people will click the ad while trying to move it off the top of the music player.  Not only is there a big display ad off to the side, but also on top of the music player.  Is this Pendulum's template choice, or a lame idea from some whacked Beverly Hills marketing suit at News Corp who's learning about new things like the Webs and the Internets.  Puke on your users, myspace.  Fade out.  Pandora kicks ass.

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