Refers to the process where users become accustomed to banners and don't even notice they are there any more.
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Banner blindness is the inclination of people to take no notice of banner ads on Web sites. Banner blindness is an observable fact in web usability where people on a website ignore banner-like information.
This term was given by Benway and Lane in 1998 He conducted website usability tests where a majority of the test subjects either intentionally or without thinking ignore information that was presented in banners. The result of the study contradicts the most popular web design principle that larger, colorful and animated elements on a website are more expected to be seen by users.
While searching for precise information on a website users center only on the parts of the page where they would take for granted the relevant information could be. Huge colorful or animated banners and other additional graphics are in this case ignored.
It has been examined that contradictory results have been originated regarding the perception of banner advertisements on the Internet. It has been observed that banners are almost generally overlooked. In this revision, it is disputed that the opposing results might be due to aimless browsing versus goal directed searching.
Experts consider that banner blindness take place because experienced Web users are in search mode and tend to ignore banner ads as irrelevant for their search.
Ad-Blocking Software
There is some complicated ad blocking soft wares in the market which block the delivery of the banner ads which prevent in reaching target audience.
Graphics-Off Surfers
A lot of browsers actually stop the progress of animation, which seems to be disturbing and annoying to users. These results in wasting all the money spent on designing a flashy banner animation entirely.
Failure to Load
Heavy Ads often stops working to display even on high-speed internet. This is due to on lazy ad servers that are not always working at peak performance.
Outdated Flash Players
Due to old version of flash player, banner ads are also not able to display properly. Most of the people are still using Internet Explorer 6 instead of new version.
Placement Disasters
This is one of the main reason for the ignorance of banner ads. If the banners are not placed properly according to the theme it causes annoyances among visitors this is the frightening and often the comical way a banner campaign can fail. In this the banner ads are not placed cleverly according to the theme.
Lose Friends and Alienate People
concluding on the point above don't overdo it. Banners can turn out to be like those annoying TV commercials we are forced to watch during our favorite TV show live.
Why then do marketing agencies push for banner ads? The only answer for this is ignorance or unwillingness to embrace the truth.
