Your are on the boycott list. Either I am watching HULU or something in another window, and opening up tabs to read later, or am just browsing with no audio. In the first case, your dumbass ad is stepping over the audio of something I actually want to hear. In the second place, you are scaring the shit out of me with your sudden audio that is ALWAYS cranked up to 11, and I just jumped out of my chair. You are on my list. I don’t care if I need your product more than a diabetic needs insulin, I WILL find an alternative. And guess what? Your ad is usually for some useless shit that I would never buy anyway. Your obnoxious audio certainly isn’t going to swing me over. And web pages that are counting on my clicks to pay the bills who accept ads like this? You are on my boycott list too.
Fuck you. There should be a federal law against it.
Also: I will not buy your product if your ad uses music originally released as…well, music (popular or classical). I do not want your sleazy product coming to mind when I hear that music (for instance, I quickly mute all Sam Adams beer ads). It doesn’t even matter if I don’t particularly like the song in question (which in the case of the beer ads, I do).
Even quicker way to lose my business: have cute cute cute widdle kids loudly endorsing your product (which has nothing to do with children; i.e. cars, washing machines, condoms, whatever).
I do enjoy ads which are so entertaining that you don’t notice what they’re selling. I’ll buy me some of that stuff, if I ever figure out what it is.
It is irritating alright…