The new Google display ad tool: A first test Google gave this week a tool to hand his European advertisers, with which you can create restricted design Flash banner which then appear within the content network. There are total 17 different types, which can be chosen between five formats. There are additional industry-specific pre-made banners, where the wallpapers have been already vorgerfertigt for the very urgent. If you tried the tool, first and foremost comes the impression that it satisfied the play instinct in appealing ways. The user experience (E.g. representation of changes in real time) or the quick result may lead quickly with some doubts, whether here is not a big savings potential. The good usability has however also a hook.
Because the ease of use also causes that the product remains ultimately simple to time to say it. Who is stumbled ever over a beautifully made banner, is given the limitations of the technical facilities offered (and thus the optical effects) pulling the hair. Innovative elements such as troublemakers should here even don’t be the speech. But if not even font type, size and position can be modified, we must ask ourselves, how a banner pieced so according to diagram F to withdraw still from the crowd. It will be curious, how long to live this ad format. You will lean not too far out of the window, when it predicts, that is the eyes not even too long insult must be of these stone age banners because the principle will not prevail which are Publisher soon find that they have saved at the wrong end, because their do-it-yourself ads simply don’t convert. Daniel Kreowsky