March 7, 2022
Pop-Up Ads: Effective or Just Annoying? The notorious Pop-Up Ad made its first appearance in 1997 on a site called tripod.com. It was soon employed by thousands of sites, much to the chagrin of unsuspecting users. In its original iteration, pop-ups opened an ad in an entirely new page, significantly interrupting browsing and forcing users to interact with irrelevant goods and services. Today, we are more familiar with a less-interruptive version called the “lightbox” or “modal” popup. This is a small box...