egstl - 2:08 am on Jan 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

Yes, this is definitely something I have heard before, and I think the major problem would be if there was no other information on the page (i.e. content text) so people have the choice whether to listen or read.

One thing you said did get me thinking though...and that is what if people go to a site (while browsing in work) not really expecting sound and all of a sudden the audio blares out. When I talk to clients they have a fear that if you give people a choice to click a lot of people may not bother, whereas if the video begins to play a lot of people may be enamored initially with the technology and then by the message to stay long enough on the site to hear what is being said and to act upon it.

One thing I am interested in finding out is people think there are any search engine optimization benefits by including this type of video on a site. Some suppliers of this technology embed the files directly into a swf file, while others called the FLV files and player from remote sites via javascript.

EGSTL