Thursday, February 21, 2008

Contextual Ad Messages


Saw this ad-banner on contentsutra yesterday (Feb 20).

Contextual Ad Messages work awesome, and a targeted message displayed at the right time and the right place can work magnitudes of time better than generic ones. Context could be anything - spatial, time-driven, user-driven or topic-driven.

But they are equally risky. Contexts are, by definition, niches and do not scale. Especially time-driven ones, they die down quickly and an ad that made so much sense yesterday makes no sense today - like this one. Apparently, they had the time to do a special creative for Republic Day, but no time to replace it later with the regular one.

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