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Happy 15th Birthday Banner Ads!

October 27 marks the 15th anniversary of the industry’s first banner ads, which appeared on Hotwired.com – the first commercial digital magazine on the web and the offshoot of Wired magazine.
The site launched on the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, shortly before Netscape’s browser (“Netscape? what’s that?” I hear the younger ones call…). Here is [...]

The best time to show online advertising?

Lightspeed Research and the Internet Advertising Bureau have published some of the findings from a handy study on what difference time of day makes when paying attention to online advertising.
The largest percentage of UK Internet users in all age groups said they were most likely to pay attention to an online ad after 6pm.
The likelihood [...]

New Online Display Ad Formats

Some exciting new ad formats currently being tested could lead to larger and richer ad formats being rolled out. These will give brands a larger share of on page voice and a allow for a more engaging brand experience.
A cadre of premium publishers, spearheaded by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) are betting that bigger, bolder new online display ad formats will [...]