I am wondering, is there somewhere a still-alive-and-kicking market for creation of animated html5-banners?
Until recently I’ve done quite a lot of ad banners (creatives) as ‘print ad+online ad’ -packages on customer’s request.
Around 2015 I’ve noticed a drastic decline in popularity of animated html5-banners in our neck of the woods (NW Europe). Corporate Clients moved back to exploiting static images for their online ads. Some Content Marketing -oriented Publishers went as far as avoiding html5-banners in their production workflow.
I found out two main reasons for that:
Readers of online feature publications find animated ads planted along the main text content as distracting, disturbing and annoying, especially on mobile devices where the risk of accidentally tapping on a banner while scrolling down the main contents is high.
A significant drawback for multi-channel publishers : html5-ads cannot be re-used ‘as it’ on social media channels.
This is hard for to say because I have been working in the Ad Agency for 3 years and html5 animated banners has been my main job… so it is very hard for me to say whether or not its dying because my job has always been stable at least!
I was working in Japan at an Ad Agency and primarily clients would love interactive banners ( scratch, quiz, click > animation etc ). Followed by story animations was second.
I have just started my new job in London as a Digital Designer at a AAA games company, and I can happily say one of the main reasons for my getting the job was based on my HTML Animation skills, animate CC, Hype, then following video animation.
Anyway! my point is unfortunately I never have really dealt with business side as I am primarily a designer so I cant give you any figures… which is what I am always asking for ! lol… but it seems to be that all banners I am seeing online of our competitors are using animated banners. I always check Moat.com to look at companies like Blizzard and Riot etc
@tekkon Thank you very much for your reply and telling about your work. Looks like gaming /entertainment industries are the right domain for html5-banner advertising with lots of animated FX.
I think your basing all of this on your perception on where your at this point.
I can tell you from my experience HTML5 animated ads is where its at. Whenever I see ads by Amex, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Best Buy, Honda, Chrysler, Toyota, Dodge… they all embarce HTML5 animations and majority of them are done with greensock js libraries. The unfortunate part is, I’ve yet to see hype ads out there even though I’m a hype user, this is when looking at the source code.
Also I see there’s a huge trend ads as videos.
I have a whole library of saved ads by the big guys If you want can share with you in a zip file they’re just bookmarks, some of them are very clever.
Yes, of course, I am expressing my own opinion based on my experience with local corporate customers. Unfortunately I don't work with any of those big brands from overseas you @petester mentioned. And I am not in gaming /entertainment industry like @tekkon I had to play by the rules set up by my local corporate customers from content marketing industry. And the trend is that they have been reverting to static image-based ads and animated gifs. It meant for me sale loss in html5-ad creations.
I am glad that we can exchange opinions on that subject, it is really valuable and uplifting for me.
Right, video ads are in trend, hopefully Ad Networks would revise their file size limitation! 150-200 kB is really a minuscule size for rich media ads.
@petester I would be extremely grateful if you could share them with me. I am great need of some inspiration of ads, and also in dire need of seeing how they are built!
I know that GumGum use Hype for their ads, this is the main reason I started using Hype! However I really need to learn all of the different ways of creating ads so I know I am using all the resources possible
Thanks for feedback everyone as well super interesting !
I am joining in. The last three years that I have been using Hype for banner animation I have not seen a decrease. I can add that statisch Banners are popular but will not take away the need in animating banner. What I’d really like to see it an allover standard.
I am really tired or having to produce different banners output for each adserver.
Since a year now mouse-/TouchOver has become popular. Like adding these.
I fee like hype should have some sort of a checker or a validator to check for latest ad server definitions before hype exports. Right now its a hit or miss since the ad servers always change their guidelines.
Just wanted to add my 2 cents into the discussion.
I’m a front-end developer who works in a large advertising agency and primarily create html animated display ads & digital screen signage for our clients.
I’ve been working in web design since '95 and used to use Flash when it was big, followed by Greensock JS up until about 3 years ago when I switched to Hype which is fantastic.
I’ve seen an increase in animated html display ads over the last couple of years so think the OP may have just had a blip with their clients. Display ads are big business and we go through huge amounts of them in our studio to supplement large campaigns for major clients.
Hype is a brilliant tool for allowing me to very quickly create animated html and export to various network specifications. Looking forward to seeing the program grow in the future.
I can't back this enough, I am not sure why but I think the subtle mouse over (even if accidentally) are really popular....
This is actually great to see so many people here that create Animated banners. Is there anyway we can set up a separate thread ( or here ) to start sharing our ideas and examples? I would love to have a little base camp to share banners
We don’t design any mouse-over effects for client jobs as we thought these arent viable for mobile platforms with touch screens.
The BOSCH ads above are interesting - have these been used as they would not pass the IAB / Google DoubleClick requirements for stopping all animation after 30 seconds, these keep on animating the background imagery infinitely.
The mouse over effect is triggered on a tap on mobile screens, but ‘holding’ the ad to simulate a hover doesn’t do anything. Has anyone had any luck replicating the hover state in this way at all?
Ok I only looked at 3 and my mind is blown by a couple... lol...
How on earth did you create the Uber Card? Is everything done in Hype? I can't even begin how you have the 3D card transition and reduced it all to 150kbs.
Ok I have watched it 10 times and my mind is blown... the possibilities!!!!!!!!!
Yes some of them are pretty clever and well presented. It’s important to know these are not my ads. These are a collection of ads I’ve saved since late 2017. You can save future ads too, just do what I do when I see an ad worthy of saving.
Since majority of these ads are google ads, google ads add characters at the end of the url just remove the characters after .html and you should be good with saving to your bookmark.
Ah great I will take look through some of your stuff as well !
While we are on it, how the hell did they do that advert… can someone confirm if it works on IE or not ? it looks like they used CSS 3D Transform… which wouldnt work on all browsers !..
No one cares about IE anymore. Its dead, and those that do have it and use it are in the past and are at fault, not the creator of ads. Besides, mobile devices rule over desktop devices and mobile devices are up to date more or less when it comes to rendering.
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