MetaFilter posts tagged with banners

Urban Forest Project

tpl1212 — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:58:36 -0800

Design Times Square: The Urban Forest Project "brings 185 banners created by the world’s most celebrated designers, artists, photographers and illustrators to New York’s Times Square. Each banner uses the form of the tree, or a metaphor for the tree, to make a powerful visual statement. Together they create a forest of thought-provoking images at one of the world’s busiest, most energetic, and emphatically urban intersections." Including work by Milton Glaser, the Walker Art Center, and many, many others. Via Speak Up.

Su — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:14:48 -0800

GINORMOUS banner ad at download.com. From what I can tell, it only auto-expands on the first visit, presumably cookied, but I was still pretty annoyed. If you click to view, it blows up again, runs a little commercial at you(sndtrk by Madonna), and shrinks again. A little better than the layout-destroying monoliths other sites are using?

jed — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:51:12 -0800

A Suck article on "the death of banner ads" (complete with humorous acknowledgement of the fact that their parent company relies on ads) made me think about the online advertising that I enjoyed or followed up on. What are some effective ads you remember?

owillis — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:31:07 -0800

Is this banner offensive? I'm all for using a little sex to sell product, but this execution shows no link between the ad and the actual product that I could see...

da5id — Sat, 31 Mar 2001 08:09:47 -0800

View this ad or we shoot this dog: Forget CNET's poster-size adverts. The latest trend is a user agreement that requires visitors to view your banners.

What other websites will attempt to adopt this trend? And what will the backlash be? I for one won't go to sites that "require" me to view advertising.

Story towards bottom of the page

owillis — Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:50:19 -0800

Look! This guy will create "trick banners" for you, no silly graphic designer needed...

mathowie — Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:18:23 -0800

Salon admits banner ads don't work and asks for subscriptions, with the alternative being bigger, new (probably flash-enhanced) banners. I wish more companies did this, allowing users to pay to get rid of ads. I've paid for Eudora 5, and I'll be paying Salon for the same luxury. Will Salon be the first of many or the last? (via rc3)

owillis — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:33:32 -0800

468x60 is dead? IAB releases new ad standards. Too little, too late...

Doug — Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:08:09 -0800

Kind of creeped out by the PlanetProject. I went to AltaVista to check on some stuff and noticed that the PlanetProject banners were everywhere on the site. A pretty complete roadblock. What IS the PlanetProject?

sonofsamiam — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:27:08 -0800

The first web-banner I ever liked.

baylink — Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:57:07 -0800

Oh, cool; someone patented banner ads! And they're suing everyone else for using them. (Ok, so they really only patented *offline* banner ads; we could *hope*, right? :-)

Mick — Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:53:20 -0800

The Guerrilla Banner Project It's not my website, but I am a participant. Does that make me a linkwhore?