“Lower My Bills” drives me nuts
Author of this post: Scott Chappell | About Blog Authors »
This post is nothing more that a cry for help..for empathy. Have you seen the “Lower My Bills” tile ads. These ads are everywhere! As pervasive as the Giggle IQ test. You’ve seen the newest one right…the silhouetted dancing guy in a suit shaking his hips like Elvis. They are built in Flash. They are awful, ugly, poorly designed from a purely aesthetic perspective…they are today’s “Punch the Monkey” ad.
And, importantly, they exist because of credit card debt since they are selling dept consolidation. Is there any way we can clean up our web world of these kinds of eyesores? (The correct answer is: no.) And beyond the topic of design, the savings rate in the USA is negative. Yes, Americans spend more than they save. I guess that’s what trickle down economics means.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
They catch my attention, but not in a good way. I will Never use thier service. EVER.
The newest one, a human in a dress????? dancing (can’t tell any more than that, gender appears male though) it’s irritation beyond tolerance.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Thanks Bill, editing the hosts file worked like a charm. I absolutely despise those ads.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:19 am
There is nothing I hate more in my daily routine than logging onto weather.com to check my local hourly forecast and being assaulted by an obnoxious woman in a pink dress dancing around like an idiot. I absolutely hate these ads! Marketers need to understand that a lot of people, such as myself, will go out of there way not to use their product if the advertisement is annoying and terrible. I often go to the extent of closing my right eye or blocking out the portion of the screen with the dancing woman in order to check the weather without her interference. Why, weather.com must you force this upon me?!?!
June 1st, 2009 at 9:47 am
The redirection of ad.doubleclick.net to localhost is brilliant.
thank you for this!
127.0.0.1 [tab key] ad.doubleclick.net
March 8th, 2010 at 10:59 am
I’ve never gone to their website, but it’s hard to escape their obnoxious & downright UGLY ads! Seriously, the people they use for their ads have gone from dorky to SCARY! First there was the dweeb with the big glasses & obvious dentures… “C’mon ladies, let me lower your bills” <-No thanks! . Then there was the guy with more facial hair than a caveman… a real Charles Manson look-a-like, "Lower my bills, or I'll KILL you!". After that, there was a guy I'll swear I saw on 'America's Most Wanted' with a monobrow! Then they used an elderly man that looked both mad and constipated at the same time. Now it's another elderly man… a really scary-looking elderly man! Are these ads suppose to entice you in to visiting their website??? They're only good for comic relief!