AdWeek : Spamming Video Games with Ads is cool
September 15, 2008

According to Ad Week, Advertising Agencies have a free reign to spam our games with ads. You know, the games that we pay money for to play.. We need an Ad Block Plus for video Games… reward for the first person to code that.
NEW YORK Just how effective is that Burger King ad in the game NFL Street? Marketers have often wondered. Considering that more than a third (36 percent) of gamers actually bought, talked about or sought information about a product after seeing an ad in a videogame, per Nielsen Games, a case can be made that they are very effective. Full Story
This is just an outrage.. we don’t want ads littered in our games… we pay money for the games so ads don’t get plastered in our face. We have been lobbying for years asking for this to stop…


