The following banner, found on a MySpace page, is a perfect example of how NOT to advertise online.
Why? Well, firstly because it’s pretty annoying, and secondly, it never stops eating all my CPU’s resources.
I’m going to insert the more attribute before the banner since I don’t want it on the main page. Click “Read the rest of this entry” on your own risk.
For those of you who want to test the SWFs made with BannerSnack before buying a premium license, here you can download these two files:
These two ads are made using only BannerSnack and, of course, an image editing software for the raw materials (images).
Use the SWF embed code generator to get the proper HTML code for the object.
Yep, we’re talking about the BannerSnack referral program here.
How it works?
The ClickTAG variable is a tracking tool assigned by a publisher or ad serving network to a flash banner ad. It is also used to link the flash banner to a destination URL.
Okay. But why using ClickTAG when a link – the destination URL – can be hard coded into the SWF itself? Well, that’s because hard coding the click-through URL into the SWF would make click counting impossible. And that would kill the CPC advertising system – the popular system Google uses too.
Also, the ClickTAG variable has many other advantages:
At least that’s what you can think of when you see a 300×600 px banner, also called “half page ad”. Yep, it’s the biggest of all the standard sizes. And yes, it is rarely used. Check this out (I know you already did):
Now the real challenge is to figure out whether:
a) advertisers have bigger budgets or
b) the advertising space got cheaper?
a), b), both, neither? What do you know about that?
Hit the pig if you can!
You can’t. It’s a funny concept but it can frustrate you. Take me for example – I would love to break that savings pig… just to see how an IBM-branded savings pig looks like torn to pieces.
Oh, that’s not IBM’s pig? Uh, it seems I’ve missed the whole idea of this ad (sic!).
Below you have three polls for three categories of features that might be added to BannerSnack. In order for us to decide which feature should we develop first, let us know which of them you want the most. Pick one for every category and click “Vote”.
Loading ... Loading ... Loading ...The introduction of SWF export feature has pleased many of you. However, odds are that a big part of you haven’t ever worked with SWF files before. And the biggest challenge is to embed them properly into a website.
That’s why we made this easy to use embed code generator that will help you compile the perfect* swf embed code:
Now that you can export the banners you created with BannerSnack to SWF files, you might want to play them independently of your browser. The first thing you can think of is to download Adobe Flash Player. But since you used BannerSnack, that means you already have the flash player installed. However Adobe Flash Player won’t solve your problem, as it still uses a browser to play SWF files, and you need a player that would play the SWFs independently, right?
Don’t search for “adobe swf player” as you will get this page. Dead end.
