(11-10-2010 10:56 )babestation Wrote: (09-10-2010 14:27 )vila Wrote: We've just had a few nights with no Xtreme full screen video ads/trailers, which was a merciful respite, but last night they were back with a vengeance.
Get rid of them permanently, please, Cellcast - along with the totally unnecessary half-height OSGs.
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I don't know whether this was the case or not, but perhaps they were testing if the ads were affecting the calls.
did it make you want to ring up more without the adverts being there?
If it had continued it very probably would have done. However, it would need to be accompanied by the withdrawal of all other interruptions that remove the phone girl from the screen and also all the black boxes and over-size OSGs that interfere with my view of the featured girl.
Reinstating the ads in back-to-back double doses as you have done has, of course, had exactly the opposite effect.
A long time ago I imposed an embargo on phoning the shows after I discovered how Freeviewers were being short-changed on the nature of the content compared with Sky while still being charged exactly the same price. (I've broken that resolution on only a very few occasions.) That discrepancy has been almost completely removed from the BS channels but still exists on Tameland (the Freeview imitation of Partyland) and now my objection is the fact that Cellcast doesn't deliver on its promise.
The deal that is offered is that in return for a charge of £1.50/min a caller can talk (or listen) to the girl on the screen. Every time that the girl is removed from the screen you are failing to honour that promise.
If you think I'm going to start phoning the show again in the full knowledge that at any moment I might be charged anything up to £4.50 to watch an Xtreme advert or promo you need to have another very serious think.
When you remove the phone girl from the screen while there are still callers on the line you are, at best, in breach of contract or, at worst, defrauding your paying customers. Fraud is a criminal offence.
Even some of the Xtreme ads and live promos are fraudulent as they promise "hardcore porn", which is totally banned from UK tv. Ofcom is very keen on advertising offences and sooner or later someone is going to complain.
When I first started watching BS there were no ads except for picture promos, and they only appeared
between, not during, the girls' sections but it nevertheless seemed to be a thriving business. All the current evidence suggests that Cellcast isn't receiving the desired amount of income and is adopting ever more desperate sledgehammer advertising in an effort to correct this.
Does it really not occur to the dimwits in control that the advertising might be the CAUSE of any fall-off in revenue rather than the remedy for it?
What you are doing must inevitably be causing serious damage to the whole babe channel community. Ofcom's latest figures for digital tv take-up, especially when viewed in conjunction with the continuing progress of the digital switchover, shows that Freeview is now by a big margin the largest digital audience. As Cellcast has a virtual monopoly of the Freeview adult chat output (2½ hours of Bang Babes starting at 3:00am hardly counts), the vast majority of UK viewers who are aware of these channels will most probably think there're all like Babestation and not take any futher interest in them whatever platform they're on, resulting in their being permanently lost as potential customers.
PLEASE STOP THIS STUPID BEHAVIOUR NOW!!!