Maybe you do responsible advertising, but the majority of your colleagues don't. Therefore, you are associated with those negative connotations whether you like it or not. If you don't like it, then stop doing that type work.
Otherwise, deal with people like David and I calling you out for being in an annoying, bad for business, and unethical industry. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Expandable banners Dave, it's naive comments like this that gives flash a bad name. WIthout wanting to start a flame war your comment demonstates a significant missunderstanding on the internet market place and how we've got to where we are today. Online advertising weather you like it or not has been a corner stone of making the internet a commercialy viable platform. Online media spend has risen year on year, where we are now in a position that approaching 5% ot total marketing spend is online. Compare this to five years ago when it was less than 0.5%. It offers significant benifits over traditional media (ATL and BTL) such as acurate measureability and behavioural modeling. A significant part of the flash userbase (designer/developers) make a living from creating these onlien media. The revenue that MM generate from sales of Flash to these people have helped to create the great product we have today. Now I suspect that you come from the RIA corner of the Flash userbase. Cant you see the beauty in the Flash platform is the flexabilty it offers. The same tool can be used to create complex applications as roll out games/websites/ advertising etc. It's strength lies from the fact the theplayer is so ubequtious. BAD flash advertising gives flash a bad name, but NO MORE SO than bad Flash applications and websites. The reality is if we all did as I supect you'd like and stop making flash ad's other technologies would appear in it's place. Advertsing is not going to go away. If it disapeared tomorrow, many of your favourites sites would have to close, and the Internet would be a very different place. ... then you'd come runing crying about the good'ld days. Sorry to jump down your throat on this but I get fed up of ignorant people, making comments like this. Take some time to look around and you'll see some pretty creative work out there. on 9/11/05 10:09 PM, Flashcoders mailing list <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> wrote: > On 11/9/05, Mick Gow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> ps. They're a pain in the ass :) >> >> > If you mean animated banners, then yes, I agree. It's the flash banner > creators that give flash a bad name. > > -David R > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
