Banner Ad Survival

News Flash: According to Nielsen NetRatings, clickthrough rates are down from 2.5% in 1995 to 0.34% in March 2000.[1]

Headline News: In July 2000, Jupiter Communications predicts that online advertisers will face challenges in “taking advantage of the Internet as a global advertising medium.”[2]

News at the Top of the Hour: eMarketer concludes that U.S. banner ad spending will decrease from 83% to 71% by the year 2002.[3]

These are the banner advertising issues in the news every day illustrating a decline in online advertising revenue. Did someone neglect to tell the vice president of Internet marketing at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and the CEO of Ernst & Young that banner advertisements are a waste of time ...

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