80ktsClamp

I'm having similar issues with the PSA pop up.

JseongIB

Thank you all for the additional insights. We will keep you posted. This is certainly a unit that have been limiting and that we might be limiting even more based on the feedback.

In the meantime, we have improved the creative/image for the PSA Ad by shortening its load time. The new image file is 20% smaller than before (now 60.8k) and the Ad Trafficking Tool that we are using (DFP) reports that the load delay will change from 500 milliseconds to 100 milliseconds. It's hard to say whether this is anything noticeable, but we hope this helps for now.

It's confirmed that the interstitial should not be running on Mobile.

Thanks again.

JseongIB

Hi Everyone,

We recognize that the interstitial units (pop-up ads) have been disruptive to your experience on the site and we thank all of you for sharing your concerns.

We are making improvements at this time to provide a better experience for all site visitors.

• New pop-up ads will not appear anymore, as the pop-ups have been phased out of all advertising plans starting today;
• A few pop-ups have already been memorialized and we will have to honor those commitments. That being said, these pop-ups will not be renewed;
• We are going to make it possible to prevent logged-in users from seeing these pop-ups. This is a new functionality that our development team will have to implement to the site. We don't have an ETA yet, but we will keep you posted.

Thank you!

80ktsClamp

FWIW, the PSA pop up as ceased (thank goodness!). I appreciate the work.

JseongIB

Hi Everyone,

Just to clarify, the PSA pop-up is up and will continue to run on APC until 5/27/2016.

Thanks!

80ktsClamp

PSA pop up is back on safari today when logged in. Doesn't show up on firefox.

babs

Pretty fed up with these psa pop ups.

JseongIB

Hello Everyone,

We just wanted to reiterate that the PSA pop-up is one of the last pop-up campaigns that we will be allowing on the site. We understand that it may feel invasive, but we think that delivering what's been contractually agreed upon is the best way of handling all our stakeholders - being advertisers or users of the community. That being said, the last day of the PSA pop-up campaign will be 5/27/2016.

In addition, we are currently evaluating options to provide an improved experience for users who are logged in. There are a couple of scenarios which will enable the functionality to restrict certain ads for our users and we are evaluating which one would work best for APC with our internal ad team and developers. After that, we will then implement the changes on the site and will communicate the improvements to the community. As of now, we do not have an ETA but we ask for your continued patience.

More details will follow soon.

Thank you again for your feedback and support.

JseongIB

Hi Everyone,

Back with a quick update on the pop-up ads. This message is to let everyone know that the last pop-up campaign to run on APC will be seen on the site during the following months:

July 2016
November 2016
February 2017

These campaigns had been memorialized before the decision to discontinue pop-up ads were made.

We are still committed to providing a great customer experience to all our stakeholders, so we will honor our obligations and we will also make sure that we implement a few of the suggestions that the community of APC has shared with us.

Thank you so much again for all your help

grnclvrs

Great. Now it's a frigging Bose popup.