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Banner Ads Must Die!!!

Marketing Insider Group

My advice of which marketing tactic was like the walking dead: banner ads!!! But click through rates on banners are less than.1% Eye-tracking studies show that everyone ignores them so even for branding and awareness, this tactic is hard to justify. Around 31% of ad impressions can’t be viewed by users.

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3 Banner Ad Best Practices Debunked

Convince & Convert

Below are three banner ad best practices that should be avoided in some cases, depending on the industry, brand, and audience. Always Include Visuals, Images, or Photos in Banner Ads. It’s a widely accepted fact that visuals in banner ads increase the overall performance of the ad, compared to ads with no images.

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Banner Ads Work; Really

NuSpark Consulting

As a business, there’s always a question on the effectiveness of banner ad campaigns (or online display) as a portion of an online media mix. The doubters are aware of the low click-through (CTR) rates banner ads receive, the amount of clutter, the lack of creativity, etc. The above is true of a b2b message as well.

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[Research Round-Up] The Effectiveness of AI-Generated Images for Marketing

B2B Marketing Directions

2023 This paper describes the results of three studies designed to evaluate the performance of AI-generated vs. human-made images used for marketing purposes. Specifically, the studies evaluated image performance across three dimensions relevant to marketing. This study included one human-made image and 13 AI-generated images.

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61% of Marketers Cite Email Subscription List Growth Over Past 12 Months

KoMarketing Associates

Cordial published its “Cross-Channel Marketing Study,” and statistics indicated that over the last year, most marketers (61%) have grown their email subscription list. It outperformed SMS by 92% and banner ads by 39%. About 31% said that their list grew by up to 25%, while 22% claimed that it expanded by between 25-50%.

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The State of Banner Ads

Bluetext

October 26, 1994 is a day that will be forgotten by few…it was the first day a banner ad (or any ad for that matter) was posted on the internet. AT&T paid $30,000 for the appearance of the first banner ad. Here are four reasons why Bluetext believes banner ads are still an asset to any company.

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How We Doubled Webinar Leads By Becoming Our Own Biggest Advertiser

Contently

The year is 1994, and people are excited about— checks notes —banner ads. “We came with the attitude that this was a sacred ground,” Joe McCambley, who helped create one of the first banner ads, told Fast Company. Depending on your study of choice, click-through rates clock in around 0.2 No, seriously.