On a post by Seth Godin, Usama Fayyad, from the Strategic Data Solutions division of Yahoo, shared a interesting insight:

“If you run banner ads,(…) you can increase your brand awareness about 7% after a reasonable buy of banner ads“

Since most users have developed some kind of banner blindness, what’s the catch in here? Well, the thing is, users later recall those ads and are more receptive to click on your contextual text ads. We no longer think in terms of integrated campaign across media but also intra-media.

Besides focusing on the creative concept of rich media, brands should have a special attention in making the copy writing consistent through the different assets of their online marketing mix. Diversify the risk, and expand your media budget across several solution to find out the best results and later compare what media got the best conversions.

Of course, you might not be so lucky if you get into this embarrassing situation.

I almost forgot to announce the beta release of the Flash Player 9 for Linux, since i do most of my posts on Windows. Obviously I’m writing this one from my laptop running Ubuntu.
So, if you’re a Linux fan, get the version 9,0,21,55 as an installer or standalone player.

• Download Installer for Linux (GZ, 2.48 MB)
• Download Standalone Player for Linux (GZ, 2.38 MB)

“Penguin Flash Developers” can finally browse the inspirational websites made for Flash Player 8 plugin +.
The regular Linux user should expect a final distribution in November, with the current version only available in English and placed on the user’s plugins directory.
via PenguinSWF

One of the most active Flash IDEs has released version 2.0 Final.
Now with AS3 & MXML completion.
You can also integrate it with Ant or Flash Build, and you’ll be able to do you Flash Projects without touching the Flash IDE or Flex Builder.
FlashDevelop rocks !

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