Today’s Wall Street Journal had the following comment by Colleen DeCourcy, chief digital officer at Omnicom’s TBWA:

“Banner ads will be the new junk mail.  More and more, reputable companies won’t be buying up the space around the Web sites you visit.  Clicking these ads will become less and less legitimate as brands will endeavor to do things that add more value to you in the social-media and customer-service space.”

2 Responses to “Quote of the day”
  1. Like television producers, it seems that web companies will have to find more context sensitive ways to promote products or services.

  2. [...] there is another reported death that I am thinking about.  Back in January 2009 I included a quote about banner ads being the next direct mail.  I mean no offense to direct mail but the implication [...]

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