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Late in 1994, when I first noticed HotWired, the original digital offshoot of Wired magazine, what really caught my eye were the banner ads that promised to help the new company monetize its content.

On October 27, 1994, I watched history unfold as the first-ever digital banner ads ran on HotWired.com. Roughly a dozen ads went live that day, catapulting the world of advertising into a new era. As ...

While it may take hours to design a great Web banner for your business site, it only takes seconds to turn it into a powerful -- and free -- advertising tool. Clickable hyperlinks, which often appear ...

Along with lists, quizzes, and cat videos–and, more recently, breaking news–BuzzFeed has long been known for its refusal to host those annoying banner and square ads that clutter the pages of most ...

Released in 1989, the Psion MC-400 laptop was way ahead of its time, it included all of these features except one... Wired magazine's HotWired.com was the first website to display banner ads. Although ...

Never say never in digital media. For years, BuzzFeed executives preached two things. The digital ad industry needed something better than the much maligned banner ad. And web ads should be "native." ...

At some point in the second half of last year, in-banner video kicked off an open internet revival tour that nobody wanted. Yet, we’re all forced to attend. In-banner video (IBV) isn’t a new ad ...

TV’s newest commercials are starting to look an awful lot like the web’s oldest. Any user of Amazon’s Fire set-top device might have recently stumbled upon an interactive on-screen graphic from Geico, ...

Security experts are warning that hackers may have launched a wide-spread attack in Europe using banner ads to redirect users to Web sites that download malicious code. After receiving several reports ...