banner blindness


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banner blindness

The tendency of website visitors to ignore advertising banners and elements of the website that resemble advertising banners.
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This solution has been developed in response to diminishing effectiveness of hitherto forms of marketing online such as advertising banners and the phenomenon of "banner blindness" has taken root amongst consumers.
Consumer time and attention is getting lower as we move from traditional to digital (think banner blindness, low click through rates).
We wanted to look past the standard banner ads and address challenges like banner blindness, spill over and drive more effectiveness for our campaigns and we seem to have achieved just that."
Respond solves the problem of "banner blindness" by using call-to-action buttons to display highly relevant messages to people across a network of quality sites.