Website Commercials - How many do you SEE?

[GreenGambler]

I have been seeing alot of commercials lately with no other purpose than to direct you to a website domain name.

Such as local classified ad websites, local video sites, TV network sites, Gamers Sites, GoDaddy commercials, and just alot of other various commercials that promote websites.

And if the commercial isn't for a website it almost always has a URL show up somewhere.

I wonder if this is just a local thing or have there been alot of TV website commercials in your area too?

 

[snowbird]

I can recall a while back a commercial for Vehix.com. That commercial use to come on so many times that i began to hate the company. The last thing you want to do is annoy your viewing audience.

 

[angisson]

I see a lot, almost everyone has a website in it, somewhere.

I think its kinda cool, but it DOES get annoying .

 

[Broker]

LOL, just as I was reading this I saw a commercial for www.realcaliforniacheese.com


I see these types of commercials everyday. Mainly .com's being advertised and lately a whole bunch of .tv



Edit: Just to add to my original comment. I forget who I was talking to the other day but we struck up a conversation about advertising. It seems everywhere you look theres some major companies logo or web address in the backround or in your face. Everything is sponsored by some major company just for the advertising. I actually got a little upset because I'm actually tired of seeing it all. Even our local news channel is sponsored by ephenry now and their logo stays on the tv for the entire newscast.



I cant even go fishing without an empty KFC bucket or bud beer can floating down the river in front me.

Sometimes, I just dont get it.

 

[AussieDomainer]

Edit: Just to add to my original comment. I forget who I was talking to the other day but we struck up a conversation about advertising. It seems everywhere you look theres some major companies logo or web address in the backround or in your face. Everything is sponsored by some major company just for the advertising. I actually got a little upset because I'm actually tired of seeing it all. Even our local news channel is sponsored by ephenry now and their logo stays on the tv for the entire newscast.



I cant even go fishing without an empty KFC bucket or bud beer can floating down the river in front me.

Sometimes, I just dont get it.

I checked for you, adfreeworld.com is available for registration.

 

[cache]

agree, very annoying. However I thought the Amazon.com christmas was kind of funny in the past.

I can recall a while back a commercial for Vehix.com. That commercial use to come on so many times that i began to hate the company. The last thing you want to do is annoy your viewing audience.

 

[GreenGambler]

I like the new Ask.com commercials.

I also like musicals.. lol


I got what I was looking for.. ... He got what he was looking for.. lahahahah

 

[Broker]

I checked for you, adfreeworld.com is available for registration.

LOL thanks


I did however reg TradeMarkList.com


Since they like spending so much for advertising maybe I can get all these fortune 500 companies to pay me to list all their TM's on one website. Yeah, now thats an expensive homepage feature

 

[GreenGambler]

Ubid.com

Here is an interesting tactic.

I just saw a commercial for Ubid.com saying "come now and bid".. .......


But the URL advertised was 91Ubid.com

I checked and it looks like they own 10-100 ubid.com and probably more.

Kinda a good idea to track commercial/website traffic return and demographics.


What do you all think?

 

[lzy]

Wow, is that worth the trouble?

And ontopic, yes, more and more companies are increasingly directing their customers to their websites.

There also seem to be increase of such websites;

www.campaignforrealbeauty.com

Which is actually Dove's

 

[htmlindex]

Yeah, I see a lot of commercials these days where companies are advertising their websites as well

 

[GreenGambler]

Here is an interesting tactic.

I checked and it looks like they own 10-100 ubid.com and probably more.
What do you all think?

Looks like Ubid.com is not the only company who advertises using this method.

I just saw a commercial for www.151CrazyFox.com . Well don't ya know it takes you to CrazyFox.com. Looking more closely I can see that they own a hundred or more of these types of DNs.

I wonder if owning all of these DNs is worth the reg fees? Isn't there any other way to keep stats on your commericals and the traffic they produce?

 

[BTS]

Many of the "cheaper" companies put something link:

www.reallyscammycompanyontv.com/choose5

anything after the / represents the area they are targeting.

 

[Coopey]

In the UK moneysupermarket.com, travelsupermarket.com and uSwitch.com are heavily advertised.

Looks like Ubid.com is not the only company who advertises using this method.

I just saw a commercial for www.151CrazyFox.com . Well don't ya know it takes you to CrazyFox.com. Looking more closely I can see that they own a hundred or more of these types of DNs.

I wonder if owning all of these DNs is worth the reg fees? Isn't there any other way to keep stats on your commericals and the traffic they produce?

Crazy Fox is an MLM scheme, (Herbalife, I think) so for every person who pays the $200 fee for the 'starter pack' or whatever it was they've already paid for 28 domains- they'd only need about 40 people to join to cover the registration costs of the domains assuming 1111x$7 registrations. Which is probably a small percentage of the cost of the adverts anyway.

Many of the "cheaper" companies put something link:

www.reallyscammycompanyontv.com/choose5

anything after the / represents the area they are targeting.

I've noticed this with channels:
e.g. company.co.uk/itv2 or company.co.uk/five
(and also in magazines the same company would use company.co.uk/magazine)
so they can see which method works the best and direct more of the advertising budget in that direction.