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BARRY WACKSMAN: There's a bunch of things.
I think, again, the mobile space
is going to be exploding.
Wer're going to see tons of interesting ideas of brands
and clients coming up with an agency, coming up with really
interesting ideas of how to use mobile
technology in new ways.
I was speaking on a panel earlier today at IAB MIXX
conference with AOL, introducing a
new advertising format.
I think that the banner ad was one of the tragic mistakes for
the internet age, where we allowed this
strange format to emerge.
And then it became the de facto standard of how the
interruptive side of advertising on
the internet function.
And to this day, I think the average banner ad gets like
0.1 or 0.2% click-through rate.
So consumers really have no interest in these things.
And yet we've lived with banners for over a decade.
So we're now seeing the Yahoos, the AOLs of the world
coming up with very interesting new advertising
formats that I think are going to be very
powerful for consumers.
So that's one thing to be looking at for
next year, as well.