All quiet on autoplay

April 5, 2011 3:35

It is now five days since I asked Fairfax Media for a comment regarding its autoplay videos policy following the ban by media agency UM.

I can only assume they’ve lost my phone number, which is odd as I have rung back several times.

So just to help, here it is:

02 8296 0201.

Call me any time guys.

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He now writes industry newsletter Unmade - subscribe at unmade.media

topics autoplay Fairfax Media Video

Comments: 6

Curious 5 Apr 11

Perhaps if you posted an after-hours number, street address and bank account details…

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Hammertime 6 Apr 11

They’ve put you on autoplay Tim … ‘no response’ autoplay

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anon 6 Apr 11

Where’s Pippa!

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Mike 6 Apr 11

@ anon – probably negotiating Ricky’s severance

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GreatStrategy 7 Apr 11

HATE Autoplay… as a policy i try avoid their website

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David 10 Apr 11

FYI Reply to feedback sent to a few months back…
I wasnt even expecting a reply!

Hi David,

Thanks for your feedback.
We will be working on some changes to our auto-play feature during the course of the year and a site wide ‘off’ setting will be included as part of these changes. We appreciate you talking the time to send in your thoughts for us to consider.

Regards,
Phil
Fairfax Digital Support

—–Original Message—–
From: david
Sent: Friday, 11 February 2011 3:04 AM
To: FD Video Support
Subject:

Hi,

You have been sent an email from a reader via a form on theage.com.au

email: david
subject: Feedback to producers
name: David
comments: Please consider changing the default video playback setting so that videos do not play without user input.
The 5 second delay is not long enough to pause the vid.
It is annoying to have the videos starting automatically.

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