[NSC] Pop-up ads at bottom of page

[schmunk]

Wavy line bouncing up and down at the bottom of the page with an advert in. Anyone else getting this?

I'm logged in and using Chrome on Android.

@Bozza please can we not?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Same, Chrome on iPhone, logged in

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Same on Safari on my iPhone.

 

[Sussax]

All fine here, Chrome on PC.

 

[Guinness Boy]

To save a load of posts the boss tells me this is a new thing and currently only on mobile. I’ll let him explain more (or not) but for now you’ll get it on mobile and not on p.c.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Whatever is needed to generate income but...my God it's annoying. Pops up every time you change page and makes me think I'm seeing things out of the corner of my eye.

 

[Bozza]

I'm surprised the dissent took this long - I turned it on around 3:30!

It's just an experiment which I knew would be unpopular.

Ads now pay primarily on viewability so the regular banners deployed on the site are relatively poor payers are they aren't on screen often/for very long - c57%. In contrast the sticky bottom banner, which has been used for non-logged in users for a while, gets seen 88% of the time.

I thought it would be less intrusive on mobile, rather than desktop, but I wonder if the opposite is true.

That style of ad is used on a lot of sites, but maybe it's the way it appears, instead of being there when the page renders, which makes it more jarring.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Please remove the adds. It is driving me mad.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I'm surprised the dissent took this long - I turned it on around 3:30!

It's just an experiment which I knew would be unpopular.

Ads now pay primarily on viewability so the regular banners deployed on the site are relatively poor payers are they aren't on screen often/for very long - c57%. In contrast the sticky bottom banner, which has been used for non-logged in users for a while, gets seen 88% of the time.

I thought it would be less intrusive on mobile, rather than desktop, but I wonder if the opposite is true.

That style of ad is used on a lot of sites, but maybe it's the way it appears, instead of being there when the page renders, which makes it more jarring.

it's bloody irritating, especially on a phone obscuring part of a comparatively small screen.

It makes NSC look like an unreadable newspaper free website, with random popups all over.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Not impressed and really annoying, especially the flashing advertisements for Cheltenham races, I have zero interest in horse racing.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'm surprised the dissent took this long - I turned it on around 3:30!

Everyone having a busy afternoon working hard

 

[Grizz]

I don't think it's that bad, at least it's blends in better than genuine square or rectangular pop ups that take up a third or half the lower part of the screen. Prefer not to have them, but worth the experiment.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Are we getting rid of them?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

 

[Seagull27]

Can't say they bother me too much, so no real complaints, but maybe it depends on screen size. Slightly worse when you've got your keyboard open.

It is the sort of ad you tend to get on shoddy news websites like the argus, or the sun, though

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Bloody annoying

 

[oldboyroy]

Same here on my Samsung galaxy.......had to check I was on nsc

 

[Normal Rob]

 

[schmunk]

I'm surprised the dissent took this long - I turned it on around 3:30!

It's just an experiment which I knew would be unpopular.

Ads now pay primarily on viewability so the regular banners deployed on the site are relatively poor payers are they aren't on screen often/for very long - c57%. In contrast the sticky bottom banner, which has been used for non-logged in users for a while, gets seen 88% of the time.

I thought it would be less intrusive on mobile, rather than desktop, but I wonder if the opposite is true.

That style of ad is used on a lot of sites, but maybe it's the way it appears, instead of being there when the page renders, which makes it more jarring.

A static banner ad of the same size would be (I think) less annoying, and visible 100% of the time

 

[A1X]