Animated or still banner ads?

[bigjoe4]

Are you more likely to click on animated banner ads or do you find them annoying? I'm trying to decide whether to make an animated banner add or whether it's work the effort.

[VeggieBoy]

I think the animated banners appeal more to people, well they do to me. They always catch my eye... Just don't make them really stupid looking and "annoying".. I guess?

[Gouri]

Still Ads...

[Afterburn]

Animated, take veggieboys advice.

[Dan]

I like animated because they do catch your eye more, but I absolutely hate them if they are big or really annoying. Whatever you do don't make one that might annoy people.

[mobstercountry]

I think banners are always good with a little animation, too much really makes it look stupid

[NoWorldPeace]

Animated banners are more likely to attract people to look at them, but I think you've got to be careful about how intrusive those adverts are. For example, a bit of movement to catch people's eye is fine and will work quite well, however, sounds and wild flashing can often annoy people and result in the opposite response than what you were aiming for.

Some of those flash 'rollover' adverts that are appearing are very very good though.

[DS Gamers]

Personally, I prefer just normal ads. Anything that is too animated just distracts attention away from the site, proving the site meaningless. Also animated ads can be very irritating and are pretty useless if you are just going to throw people away from your site just because you have an irritating animated banner.

Alternatively there is GoogleAdSense.

[Sohail]

I prefer still advertisements, i don't know why, but it just seems more professional to me.

[satbir]

Some how I like Still banner may be because I like sober instead of flashy stuff..