Amazing Ads on the Internet

Internet pages were once plastered with banner advertisements. Can you remember how annoying those blinking things could be? Can you recall a single product that was featured in any of the ads that you saw? Probably not! Although banner ads use is diminishing and they’re disappearing from our screens, these five companies have used banner ads to create captivating interactive marketing that’s tough to forget.

 1. Cadbury Chocolate’s tasty campaign to solicit a million Facebook likes proved successful. When users clicked on the company’s banner ad, Cadbury promised to add a piece of chocolate to the giant, chocolate thumbs-up sculpture created as a yummy thank you to fans. When it was completed, the monstrous sculpture weighed in at 6,600 pounds.

2. Stride gum’s ridiculously long-lasting flavor broke through to consumer awareness with their long-lasting banner ad. Viewers were invited to compete to see if they could be ridiculously long-lasting, too. The player who out-endured other players would win a $500 cash prize in the process. To compete, viewers only had to do was click on the “click here” sign held by an actor. The actor moved the sign slowly around the screen as the player had to keep his mouse pointed at it.  The actor noticed distractions that invited competitors to watch funny cats or cute babies instead, but players could lose if they stopped focusing on the “Click Here” sign. Tucker G. set the record, playing the banner ad’s interactive game for more than forty-five minutes!



3. Pucker Vodka’s banner ad promises “kiss, kiss” and “hot tub hijinks.” It introduces motion and interactive graphics to pose questions and provide information. For instance, the billboard-like ad asks the viewer whether he is bored, and then pledges that Cherry Pucker Vodka is “never boring.” It instructs consumers to draw a martini with their mouse and answer crazy, drunken questions. (No, really, have you ever danced on a ceiling?)


 

4. Pringles potato chips might be the most clickable ad – literally! Their decidedly unsophisticated graphics in “Love can be complicated” show a guy proposing to his lady, who inexplicably has her hand buried in a Pringles can. The still image never changes, but the captions progress each time a viewer clicks, ultimately roping the viewer into a wacky, all-too-familiar dysfunctional relationship discussion.

 

5. Burger King’s Late Night Ad featuring a sleeping man, the viewer, and a Sharpie pen tapped into users’ mischievous sides. They can draw whatever they wanted on the unsuspecting victim’s bald head or clean-shaven face, but if the artist disturbs the sleeper, he may turn his head or get more comfortable as they’re trying to draw. Definitely not as easy as it looks, and it keeps users engaged.


Although banner advertising isn’t known for generating a high response from target audiences, when ad creators introduce fun, interactivity, and actual value for consumers, and place the ads where their target market is reading, they can boost their product’s branding, generate better likeability among their audiences, and produce something that never goes out of style: Smiles.


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