X-treme Advertising, pt. 2

First new big ad I’ve seen in the wild:

Cisco ad on New York Times page

To their credit, I was expecting something like the Flash ‘page curl’ ads. If things are restrained like this, it won’t be as awful as I thought.

The ad has several parts:

  • The in-column section is a single large image.
  • A Flash movie that overlays the image, for animation.
  • (Presumably) CSS/HTML, for the stuff that overlays the actual page.

Doing it this way means that even mobile browsers will see at least some part of the ad.

written 14 March, 02009 Comments