To tell the truth, it's more for the advertisers' benefit than our own. They give us Flash ads with hard-coded links and then wonder why we can't track click-throughs.
It would be nice to have such a requirement, and I've tried several times to get ads either with no links or else using the tracking guidelines. Often, though, we get the creative from a third party marketing service, with a long way 'round to relay those instructions back to the client, who then often has to go back to the contractor that created the Flash ad. Who usually has no idea what I'm talking about. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: RE: Disabling Flash Links >> We run our own ad server, written in CF. Customers often >> send us Flash banner ads with embedded links in them. This >> keeps us from being able to track click-throughs like we >> normally do with standard image banners. Is there any way >> to place a Flash movie on a web page and replace or disable >> all embedded links, so that we can force the link to go >> through our click.cfm script and record the click-through? > > This doesn't directly answer your question, but Flash banner ads can be > written to conform with clickthrough tracking: > > http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/rich_media_ads/articles/flash_ad_kit.html > http://www.macromedia.com/resources/richmedia/tracking/designers_guide/ > http://www.macromedia.com/resources/richmedia/tracking/adserving_guide/ > > Perhaps you can require that Flash banners conform to these standards? > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220624 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
