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Apple's iAds Slowly Begin to Appear, Led by Nissan Leaf

Incredibly cost-effective ad

:apple: 14K automobile recommendations and counting...

Whatever Apple charges for the iAd, Nissan is sure getting considerable "miles per dollar." First, the demo at the Developers' Conference, then the Web videos by the agency in addition to the very slick iAd itself on what is becoming the most popular mobile phone in the world.
 
Not seeing it

I'm not seeing anything in the Tiptitude app where I'm sure the ad is supposed to be located, in the empty space at the bottom.

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babyjenniferLB said:
I read no consumer reports, no personal recommendations from family/friends, no review site, nada.

If i want a computer i go to the Apple website and order one, if i need food i go to the closest shop be it a butcher or supermarket, If i want a car i spend a good 1-2 months inspecting the various cars at the 20 or so dealers in town.

There will never have been an occasion when the price, discounts, sales person or any advertisements have been taken notice. I do not watch TV and for the most part ads are blocked while i am browsing, i will never use a comparison website.

My buying is direct and to for-fill the task i wish the product to preform.
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Why are you advertising your website on this forum in your signature then? Please remove it. We don't want to see your evil blatant advertising.

/sarcasm
 
Jetson said:
Who in their right mind thinks this is a good thing???

I didn't pay good money to buy an iPod and purchase apps to be subjected to advertisements.

This doesn't benefit me the customer - only Apple and app developers.
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It sucked me right in. For starters, iAds come on free aps, not the ones you purchase, so unless you're somehow "buying" free apps, you have your piss all hot over nothing.

So, cool your jets, son.
 
Lone Deranger said:
If I want to know about a certain product, I'll look around for it. I don't want to be confronted by it through no choice of my own, no matter how targeted to my likes the iAd system can deliver it.
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Then don't download free apps. Make sure you pay for each and every app you have. As for me, I have no obsessive compulsion to click on iAd banners if I want to do something else.
 
Okay, I can see it now! For the next Superbowl you can download my new free app called, Superbowl Moment-by-Moment Stats™. Every time there's a timeout during the game, a new highly entertaining iAd will be pushed to the app on whatever iDevice you have. Like with the TV, these iAds will be as compelling of an experience as the game itself. Check the game stats often and enjoy the iAds made especially for the Superbowl.

That's like selling you the bean dip AND the chips. Delicious!!!
 
PeterQVenkman said:
I hope you're right, but trends in advertising show it going everywhere. People can only vote with their wallet when there is a choice. There isn't going to be much of a choice if Apple keeps pushing like they do.
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Your Apple iDevice may expose you to far less ads than you are being exposed to in your everyday life. Research shows that an average American is exposed to 30,000 ads per day. It's not just the billboards as you drive, it everywhere from the brand name plate on the car just ahead of you, to the dealer sticker just beside it, to the state slogan on the license plate on the car. Ads are coming out your radio speaker between songs, and out of the drive-through speaker when they ask, "Do you want to try our new Blast-o Burger today?"

Your alarm clocks reminds you that it's a GE brand device, Even your bathroom toilet let's you know its a Kholer stool. You slip into your undies, making sure the Jockey logo is in the back. 30,000 times per day you "get the message", and most of the time it's sold to you so gently you didn't even taste the kool-aid.
 
Wow, I just had so much fun learning about Andy Pettitte in the Dove iAd. Seriously. It sounds like I'm being sarcastic, lol.

I would download that app separately it was so cool.
 
Jetson said:
Who in their right mind thinks this is a good thing???

I didn't pay good money to buy an iPod and purchase apps to be subjected to advertisements.

This doesn't benefit me the customer - only Apple and app developers.
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TINSTAAFL

It benefits the app developers who develop free apps, so they can remain free. Would you rather your favorite app have a small iAd at the bottom and remains free or it has no apps and it costs, say, $4.99 or so?

There are many apps on my iPhone that I like but would not pay money for. And iAd will ensure I can keep using them.
 
Sweet

For those of you complaining about what really is an improvement to what has been a scam filled advertising "scheme". Now is being legitimized and providing better free apps, that if you don't like can delete (also for free) and not have to pay. (which I like very much) I have something REALLY cool to show you just send me $40 to my paypal account. For those of you who want to see it free just go to Google Images and type "Bearsharktopus" and think of me. To those that choose to pay (*Notice No paypal account was or will be given) after the funds have been received I will send you the link. (For those of you who want to pay, please do NOT search "Bearsharktopus" on Google Images (as I have a strict no refunds policy!):p
 
Yes, I figured that one out all by myself already! ;) Thanks for the advice though, but you seemed to have ignored the point I was trying to make in my earlier post. The one where we can expect iAds to find their way in paid apps too. Just like advertisements have found their way in other forms of paid media. And where do we go then? Jailbreak+adblock or voting with the wallet I suppose. Neither solution I like.

And as for banner iAds, even if you don't click on them and can find it in yourself to ignore that eyesore, they still take up valuable screen space on an already cramped display. You are effectively robbed of 10% of that nice Retina Display you paid for.

SandynJosh said:
Then don't download free apps. Make sure you pay for each and every app you have. As for me, I have no obsessive compulsion to click on iAd banners if I want to do something else.
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That's a little disingenuous considering the hand model is holding it in the "wrong position", so you wouldn't get any data transmission to begin with.

/sarcasm, in case that wasn't clear
 
Hi

I have seen its add on youtube. It will be beneficial for someone and some one not.......................
 
babyjenniferLB said:
I am going to go in and buy the car i want based on my what i want, once again in that situation the sales person will keep quiet unless i ask a question i have no interest in anything he/she may have to say or recommend.

I do not understand the logic that ads and sales people should be used in order to influence a sale, i want only factual information to base my decision on and it is preferable that not come from a human speaking nor flashy graphics that distract me from the data.
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I'm sorry but this truly absurd. You're either lying or ignorant with regards to the vast amounts of different marketing and advertising methods that you will experience and interact with each and every day, possibly thousands of times.

So for every decision you make it's 100% formal? You go and research everything you purchase, your buy specific products with zero influence from external circumstances? A majority of the time adverts found on websites or within mobile applications aren't even there to be clicked, they are there to raise awareness of the product either consciously or subconsciously, even if its brand awareness never-mind product awareness. From banners on the websites you visit to the adverts plastered around the arena of your favourite sport. Even if you don't actively pick up on the advertising taking place that tiny piece of information is stored in your memory and the advertising has worked in the way it was intended.

The fact is when you go shopping for the car you wanted, you went shopping for it because of information provided by the manufacture and the marketing and advertising campaign they would of put in place to raise awareness and create the 'want' and 'need' for that product. You didn't just magically know about your preferred brand and their range. Don't be naive, you're being affected by marking and advertising more than you let on, just like everyone else. Marketing truly is the evil side of psychology.

iAds are a step in the right direction compared to the bland and useless advert services current available. It allows developers to easily make money in a hostile and volatile market place with a service that may end up being more appealing to the end-user. Imagine how many apps you glance upon every week, and then think how many of those apps you looked further into and read the information blurb. Now think of the hundreds of thousands of application you didn't view that week, that are buried under the mountain of apps available in the app store. Users move from one app to the other all the time (eg RSS reeders) and if the developers can create high quality applications with equally high adverts in their free apps whilst the user decides weather or not to purchase its paid counterpart, then the customer has the opportunity to test the app before purchasing it and the developer continues to make money from the hard work that has been put into crafting it.
 
Let me put this in terms everyone can understand.
Regular Ads = Annoying Rip-Me-Out-Of-My-App ads
iAds = Less annoying ads that are interactive, entertaining, and don't rip you out of your app.
And here's the ironic part.
If you don't know what iAds are, google them!:D:D:D But don't click on any google ads while you're there, they'll rip you out of your app.:D:D:D:D:D:D

Oh, and also, if you have a problem with ads in general, iAds has nothing to do with it. Apps with ads will still have ads. Apps without ads will still not have ads, or may have a free version with ads. The only difference here is, like i stated above, devs can include ads without pissing off their users. Plus, if these ads are really interesting and possibly have entire games in them, i may spend more time in that ad than in the actual app i'm using... Which in the end is fine, since it means that it gives you yet another reason to use that app.
I think some people have it stuck in their heads that ads=annoying (or in c++ "ads == annoying" lol, i'm such a geek...). What you have to understand is, that's what apple is trying to get rid of.
 
SandynJosh said:
Your Apple iDevice may expose you to far less ads than you are being exposed to in your everyday life. Research shows that an average American is exposed to 30,000 ads per day. It's not just the billboards as you drive, it everywhere from the brand name plate on the car just ahead of you, to the dealer sticker just beside it, to the state slogan on the license plate on the car. Ads are coming out your radio speaker between songs, and out of the drive-through speaker when they ask, "Do you want to try our new Blast-o Burger today?"

Your alarm clocks reminds you that it's a GE brand device, Even your bathroom toilet let's you know its a Kholer stool. You slip into your undies, making sure the Jockey logo is in the back. 30,000 times per day you "get the message", and most of the time it's sold to you so gently you didn't even taste the kool-aid.
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DAMN! That was well said! +1
 
wilycoder said:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have found a marketing drone!

Here are some wise words from the late comedian Bill Hicks about people in marketing:

"there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no f-----g joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are f***ed and you are f-----g us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your f-----g soul, kill yourself."
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Oh, the irony!
 
These are a developer thoughts on iAd, if anyone is interested :p

I think that developers should not use ads in paid apps. Even 0.99$ apps. If one want to make more cash it should change the price. As as user, I will be really upset to find ads in paid apps.

I created a lite version of my contact manager ABContacts, and I added iAd. The app is still usable, the ad appears and disappears and when there's no ad, the screen is fully filled by the app information.
I've developed this simple contact manager app, that can create groups on the address book (no Exchange/Google), can send email and texts to groups, can show quick contact information.
The app CAN be useful to many, a lot of users simply don't need all the complex features the "full" version has.
Then I had to decide if release it for free, hoping that many user would buy the full version, release it at 0.99$, or give ads a try.

Releasing for free without ads was not an option because the app is not "limited", for example it doesn't limit to 10 people per email or something like that, it's simply doesn't have the full feature set of the "full" version. Since I have to use money to live :rolleyes: , totally free was not an option.

So I'm happy that Apple has introduced iAds as it simplifies the work for us developers to create useful apps that are free and I hope that other developers will use it wisely.

For who wants to give the app a try, here's the macrumors thread where I've announced it.

P.S.
Do you know that ads are served on US only ? The rest of the world is not served by ads at the moment. This means that free apps with iAd around the world except US are now simply free, not free with ads :p
My app above is available only on US AppStore :D; and since I live in Italy, I never saw a real banner on my app. If anyone can send me or post here a screenshot of a banner on my app I'll appreciate it.
 
azazel- said:
The fact that Apple not only has some of you accepting this...but excited about it and welcoming it with open arms...might just be the most goddamn pathetic thing I've seen in an age. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

These are ADS! Why are you people happy...about ADS?! Just because Jobs says these are swell, Apple got you acting like trained circus seals, just mindlessly clapping away.
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+1
 
azazel- said:
The fact that Apple not only has some of you accepting this...but excited about it and welcoming it with open arms...might just be the most goddamn pathetic thing I've seen in an age. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

These are ADS! Why are you people happy...about ADS?! Just because Jobs says these are swell, Apple got you acting like trained circus seals, just mindlessly clapping away.
:confused:
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If it weren't for ads then this site wouldn't exist for you to rant on sooo....
 
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