Almost 80 percent of people dislike content recommendation widgets

We've all seen them on news websites, at the bottom of pages or lurking in side bars, those 'Promoted stories' with cheesy headlines like, 'What she looks like now will amaze you!' Well, it perhaps won't surprise you to learn that most people don't like them. A study by interactive content specialist Arkadium shows that 79 percent of those surveyed disapprove of sites using content recommendation widgets. The links aren't fooling anyone much into thinking they're news either, with 73 percent of respondents aware that articles within these content recommendation widgets were often sponsored and paid for. "Publishers are doing… [Continue Reading]