Category: Press Releases

Launch your dynamic display ad campaign with Canned Banners

 
After several months of toiling in the Canned Banners Labs, we’re excited to announce that Canned Banners now offers dynamic display ad services, giving clients the ability to personalize their display ads in real time. Why the amazing new product? Honestly, we were just getting tired of people asking us “Do you guys do dynamic ads?” and not being able to answer with an enthusiastic “Yes!”

Dynamic ad solution partner: Exact Drive

Critical to our dynamic ad solution is our partner, digital media agency Exact Drive. Exact Drive connects dynamic display ads with customer eyeballs; they offer an end-to-end suite of services including:

  • media planning & strategy
  • demographic/geographic/behavoiral/contextual targeting
  • retargeting

But couldn’t any media agency do this? Technically, yes. But we’ve already done a lot of development work, testing, and research with Exact Drive to create a dynamic ad solution that’s powerful and ready to go right out of the box, giving our clients the benefit of shorter setup times and lower overall cost.

Contact us to learn more »

How do dynamic ads work?

Here’s a walkthrough of how Canned Banners and Exact Drive might launch a dynamic display ad campaign for a hypothetical advertiser called Real Estate Co.

Step 1:

Canned Banners accesses Real Estate Co’s XML feed of property listings:

  • photos
  • locations (e.g., ZIP code)
  • property descriptions
  • prices
  • listing URLs

Note: an XML feed is just an example; we can work with any data source (e.g., API, RSS, HTML, Excel, CSV)

Step 2:

Canned Banners creates a flexible display ad template that can be automatically personalized using Real Estate Co’s property listings.

Step 3:

Our partner Exact Drive creates targeted audience segments for Real Estate Co’s display ad campaign. Audiences could be segmented by:

  • previous site visitors (retargeting)
  • household income
  • website content/topic (e.g., real estate blogs)
 

Step 4:

As ads are shown during the campaign, each ad is personalized in real time to match the viewer’s profile.

Step 5:

So a person viewing ads in San Francisco, CA making $150K a year will see local property listings in their price range…

 

…while a person in Las Vegas, NV making $100K a year will see local property listings in their price range.

Personalized ads = better performance

Dynamic display ads tend to perform better and boost campaign ROI because:

  • Viewers always see ads that are relevant to them
  • Ad content can easily be modified for different audience segments
  • Pricing, availability, and details are always up-to-date, which results in better conversion rates once prospects click through to your website

Getting started

If you’re interested in learning more about our dynamic display advertising solution, contact us here and tell us a little about your company and your advertising goals.
 
 

Beta has left the building

Rejoice! Canned Banners officially left beta today just slightly more than a year after going live. Read the official press release.

A slew of changes came into effect with this release:

Here’s a before-and-after look at our homepage:
 
New homepage
 

 
Previous homepage
 

 
And here’s the new banner download page:
 

 

Canned Banners private label solution debuts with Digital Throttle as partner


 
Exciting news today! Canned Banners is officially partnered with Digital Throttle, a vertical ad network with an audience of over 6 million motorsports enthusiasts.

The really neat thing about this partnership is that Digital Throttle will be using Canned Banners’ spankin’ new private label solution. How it works: Digital Throttle will have its own special version of the Canned Banners website with Digital Throttle’s branding applied—this gives Digital Throttle advertisers a much smoother user experience as they browse the Digital Throttle website and create banner ads.

And believe it or not, Digital Throttle clients will be able to use Canned Banners for free! Aside from our quasi-competitors AdReady and Google, there isn’t any other ad network that offers free Flash ad creation as a client benefit.

Lastly but not leastly, we modified our banner ad templates for Digital Throttle to make them more relevant for its customer base of motorsports advertisers. All we had to do was drop in some new images, update the text, and pick different customization options (color, font, wildcard), and presto! Completely new ad templates. Goes to show you how extremely easy and flexible Canned Banners is.
 

Read all about it! Canned Banners launches four months ago!

Read below or download the PDF version.

Canned Banners allows anyone to create high-quality banner ads

New service offers fast and cheap method of building display ad campaigns

SAN FRANCISCO, California—January 1, 2010—Canned Banners went live today at www.cannedbanners.com. The service offers inexpensive, professionally designed Flash banner ad templates that can be customized in minutes with no technical expertise. Canned Banners emphasizes high-quality design and offers users a clean, sophisticated interface, differentiating the service from other online banner-building tools.

Myles Younger, co-founder and head of marketing said: “Canned Banners makes building banner ads a no-brainer. Any business that’s ever been frustrated by the cost or hassle of developing banner ads is going to be amazed at how easy it is to create a banner ad with Canned Banners.”

Canned Banners promises to be a boon to companies of all sizes. The service is perfect for small businesses that want sophisticated design at a low price. And professional marketers at medium-to-large companies now have a simple way to bypass the agency process and rapidly deploy and update banner ad campaigns. Finally, Canned Banners is far cheaper than hiring an ad agency or Flash designer, so by cutting costs, the service provides an immediate boost to the ROI of any banner ad campaign.

Canned Banners also represents an exciting new way for publisher websites and banner ad networks to sell their inventories of banner ad space. By removing a major cost barrier, Canned Banners will attract low-budget advertisers who may never have considered display advertising. The flexibility offered by Canned Banners will allow larger companies to run more frequent and timely campaigns. By combining self-service banner ad creation with innovative techniques such as display ad retargeting, sellers of banner ad space are likely to see an explosion in demand.

Canned Banners is currently free while in Beta.

 

Press Contact:
Myles Younger
Co-founder
myles.younger@cannedbanners.com

About Canned Banners:
Canned Banners allows small businesses and marketing professionals to quickly create their own professional-looking Flash banner ads. Users select from a variety of templates and then add their own text, logo, and images. Canned Banners offers small businesses access to sophisticated Flash banner design at a low price, and offers larger companies a cheaper and more nimble alternative to the agency process. Start building your banner ads at www.cannedbanners.com.