Yeah, folks need to get the word out.
Yeah, advertising is one way to do that.
Do I want to look at your ad while in the loo? Probably not.
Do I want to see Cadillac ads in my browser sessions following a visit to their site to look at the new CTS-V Wagon? No.
We just finished a bunch of online banking transactions on a Windows 7 system. We moved on to doing some research and sure enough there were Royal Bank of Canada banners all over many of the sites we hit after that.
We have seen the trends towards Minority Report with facial recognition becoming the norm with the AI in the background recognizing what catches our eyes and thus pushing more of that stuff at us. This after a profile is built on us.
Those in the MSM that state Google is a “Search Company” sure don’t look at the revenue numbers that the company publishes every year. They are an advertising company that pushes other’s wares via search results.
The endgame for Google was never to be the best search engine on the planet. The endgame for Google is that their current stock prices is somewhere North of $650 a share.
Facebook has been looking at ways of monetizing that huge repository of data in their grasp and have totally missed the boat on it.
Hey Mr. Zuckerberg give me a call, I have a business plan from start to finish that may push the envelope on what is possible with that data and advertising has very little to do with it!
What spawned this little somewhat off-topic rant?
The Cadillac ad at the end of the Business News on the Sufrace RT.
I don’t want to see built-in advertising on a machine I just paid $720 for!
At least give me the option to turn the bloody things off. Even if I have to pay an extra $100 for that I would. However, that option should have been apparent _before_ purchasing the device.
Between you, me, and the fence post Surface just stopped dead. We will be looking at other vendor’s RT devices as options. We will also be watching out to see if the advertising is a Windows 8 RT thing specific to the Surface or whether the advertising shows up on _all_ RT devices.
If built-in advertising plagues the other vendor’s RT product lines then we will not be looking at RT any further.
Since Surface Pro is aimed at business there can only be a shred of hope that built-in advertising will not be found anywhere on the device.
Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book
2 comments:
Advertising is built into the Bing Apps so it is in all favors of Win8
Yeah as the previous commenter stated, you will find ads in at least the Weather, Sports, News, and Stock apps included in Windows 8. As a Microsoft partner myself, I have been using Windows 8 Pro since RTM and I was surprised, and pissed off, to finds these ads included.
Anyway, love the blog.
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