A couple of years ago, when he was still with WPP’s Mindshare, I heard Scott Sorokin explain how 99.99% of people who see a banner ad will ignore it. But clicks aren’t the only problem that banners face. Click fraud: Websites that fake clicks on banners. MORE

And in 2016, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) found that digital video ad spend increased by 85 percent over the previous two years. As everyone rides the video boom, marketers have used bigger ad budgets to produce more experimental work. Is it a static banner ad? MORE

Buyers are overwhelmed by this noise, and will immediately throw away anything uninteresting, hit “SPAM” on emails that smell like sales, and ignore your ads (no matter how targeted they may be). Let’s get real about ads. Display ads carry an average CTR of 0.1%. MORE

A new study from ANA , in which online ad purchases by 36 major U.S. brands were tracked between August and September 2014, found that 11% of online display ads and 23% of video ads aren''t actually displayed to real people. How Impression Fraud Works. MORE

With its creative and targeting capabilities, display ads offer many benefits to a business. Think of display ads like Billboards or outdoor advertising in a sense. Click-through rate shouldn’t always be the primary metric you use to judge the effectiveness of the campaign. MORE

MarketingSherpa recently published its Search Marketing Benchmark Guide for 2008 , providing data on cost per click (CPC), conversion rates, SEO and other key online marketing metrics. Online banner ads and print advertising receive the lowest grades for ROI. MORE