Banner Ads
Banner advertisements appear on websites in a variety of shapes and sizes, they are by far the most common form of adverting on the internet, they most commonly appear in a stretched advert underneath the main menus of a website, and in other cases they appear in little spaces the website creators have left for them. they are an important source of revenue for the websites that host them and they are a remarkably simple way of getting such revenue, the company that wants the advertising becomes in contact and will most often send a graphic over. there are also services, where hosts of sites will get random ads posted on their site relating to what kind of content there is I.E. gaming adverts will most commonly appear on gaming websites and so forth.
Below are two examples of banner ads that i have found on sites that will further help explain about banner ads.
Banner ad from Screwattack featuring the video game 'XCOM enemy uknown' notice how the banner is directly below the main menu functions for the site.
Banner ad frorn Cinemassacre.com that shows more of free use of the banner ad.
