imdb.com's ambiguous ads
December 11, 2011 12:55 AM Subscribe
Every time I go to imdb.com, the homepage is sandwiched between this ambiguous advertisement for some random movie or television show. I sometimes wonder what the advertisement is for, but there is nothing to help me out. Absolutely nothing. Nothing to click on. No titles, no names of actors or characters. What is the deal?
Seriously, why have an advertisement which has very little information? Am I supposed to already know about the movie/show before hand?
Seriously, why have an advertisement which has very little information? Am I supposed to already know about the movie/show before hand?
Am I supposed to already know about the movie/show before hand?
Yes/no. See: Teaser campaign. Sometimes these rely on what you know (for example Alien 3), and sometimes not (e.g. The Da Vinci Code).
posted by beerbajay at 1:22 AM on December 11, 2011
Yes/no. See: Teaser campaign. Sometimes these rely on what you know (for example Alien 3), and sometimes not (e.g. The Da Vinci Code).
posted by beerbajay at 1:22 AM on December 11, 2011
Best answer: The banner at the top of the page is clipped off when I have AdBlock running in Chrome. With AdBlock. Without AdBlock.
posted by Knappster at 1:23 AM on December 11, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Knappster at 1:23 AM on December 11, 2011 [3 favorites]
Yes, you're supposed to realize that image is from "Bag of Bones" (at least that's what I'm seeing). In my case, there's also a thumbnail of the whole image part way down the page.
posted by tomswift at 2:54 AM on December 11, 2011
posted by tomswift at 2:54 AM on December 11, 2011
How wide is your screen resolution? A narrow window will cut off most of the sidebar ads.
posted by stopgap at 7:34 AM on December 11, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by stopgap at 7:34 AM on December 11, 2011 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Ahhhhhhhh, thank you Knappster. I have run AdBlock on Firefox and Chrome for years. It's funny because when the ads first started appearing, I wondered why AdBlock wasn't blocking them. Now I see the clickable parts have been blocked this whole time.
posted by jkafka at 9:25 AM on December 11, 2011
posted by jkafka at 9:25 AM on December 11, 2011
I've been avoiding the home page of IMDB for some time due to these ads. The site is usually in the top three of any given Google search.
posted by dhartung at 9:30 AM on December 11, 2011
posted by dhartung at 9:30 AM on December 11, 2011
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posted by malibustacey9999 at 1:14 AM on December 11, 2011