Posts Tagged ‘online advertising’

Louisiana EDO gets it right with targeted banner ads

Friday, February 19th, 2010

It’s pretty rare that you notice a banner ad online these days. But what if the banner ad was in a “language” that really spoke to you… as a digital media professional?

Louisiana Economic Development has embraced niche marketing in a really unique way, using programming language to catch the eye of digital media professionals who code with these languages everyday.

It works because it is so targeted. It works because it communicates its message in a really unique way. It works because it’s not a generic banner ad – it takes a risk and goes after one very specific group.

Most importantly, it works because it tells that demographic “We get you.”

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Well done Louisiana. You can visit the corresponding website here.

A new approach to online advertising

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This is a really neat idea. An agency out of Sweden was challenged by Doritos to create a different kind of online advertising solution. They did just that by not only eschewing traditional banner ads but by actually creating a plug-in that users can download that would suppress all those banner ads and replace then with content the user specifies. Want to see pictures of your dog where you would normally see banner ads? No problem! Grandchildren? Check.

A neat and unobtrusive approach to online marketing. And unlike banner ads, it actually makes the internet BETTER for the users. Found via ad goodness.