Just when you thought that you had seen everything when it comes to advertising on the Internet audio ads make their appearance. I guess someone will always dream up a new way of targeting you with advertising but now might be a good time to turn off your PC speakers - especially if you like to browse the Internet while at work!

Audio ads are due to launch on February 1st and get this, they have signed up more than 8 million websites to play those ads to you. Furthermore the company behind the idea are sponsoring lots of articles on websites about their service (No - this isn't one of them!) in an effort to sign up more bloggers and websites prior to their launch. They were even mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.

So, if you are silently enjoying a sly peek at the Internet on your bosses time - you had better watch out or the entire office will be listening in to those audio ads emanating from your PC speakers... You have been warned.

By the way, if you have a website and want to sign up to deliver annoying audio ads to your visitors then click here