Comments on: Overkill defined: Using a ScrollPane component in a Flash ad!

By: شات

شات — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:58:20 +0000

Une overdose ou était-ce un de ces…. il faut le faire en une heure type de publicité?

By: Helmut Granda

Helmut Granda — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:25:08 +0000

An overkill or was it one of those…. it has to be done in an hour type of banner? :)

By: Aral

Aral — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:38:37 +0000

@Rostislav: Clicking the scroll track didn’t cause the banner to be clicked. You could scroll the banner up/down with it. It was basically just a ScrollPane component :)

By: Rostislav Siryk

Rostislav Siryk — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:35:47 +0000

It seems they removed it from rotation.

Aral, this scroll stuff might be a trick just to make user click the scroll track (part of the banner), because user should have been wondered what’s hiding behind the edges of the enigmatic masked area. But, even if this is the case, it still seems to be too odd :)

By: Szabesz

Szabesz — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:56:08 +0000

Interactive Banner Ad? Simple and usable. What’s wrong with it? :) Let’s try to be open minded!

By: pete

pete — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:28:10 +0000

eeek … as someone who makes a living from flash media and advertising this is embarrassing. Its Agency.com that do the BA stuff and its usually top notch stuff – quite what went wrong here I dont know !!!

Looks like a MPU size was booked (300x250px) and the creative delivered was larger that required so they quickly wrapped the thing in a component !!

Crazy thing is the component alone would have eaten up the allowable asset footprint (in temrs of file size) so its doubly bad work !!!

By: jim hayes

jim hayes — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:02:46 +0000

Someone probably paid a flash freelancer £300 a day for that!

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:07:50 +0000

Yeah, I suspect this is another case of a team where someone must have known it was a dumb idea but someone else was more powerful or more persuasive or something. I have been on projects where I felt a I had to make compromises that I thought were misguided. But, the lesson I think is that when you know it’s a bad idea just be loud and put up a fuss. Who knows the story here.

By: Ronny

Ronny — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:50:06 +0000

Refreshed at least 20 times. Didn’t show up for me :(
Anyway: lol :)