Eye Tracking Study Reveals Ad Viewing Behavior – “The Blend” Works, and Banner Ads Suck
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Not a lot of big surprises here for anyone who works with online advertising quite often, but some good information nonetheless. It’s always good to have research to back up gut feelings and your own statistics. Here’s another whitepaper of research done on banner advertising. Here is a summary of there findings:
- Users look directly at banners for nearly a quarter of their often within the first 5 seconds of their exposure to the page
- People are able to recall an advert they had seen without prompting
- Over a third can recognise an advert they have seen, a more valuable for credibility and brand building.
- A colourful presence made more of a lasting impression
- Dynamic adverts provided better recollection in Bunnyfoot testing.
- Location of advert on the page determined its level of success
- Users were mostly neutral in their attitudes towards banner
- Negative comments were few in number but were exhibited tried to encourage click-throughs via deceptive formats.
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Eye Tracking Study Reveals Ad Viewing Behavior — “The Blend” Works, and Banner Ads Suck
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