German car rental company Sixt found a way to turn Google paid search results into a rudimentary- but highly effective- form of banner placement. They used the three lines of text to create ASCII art, in this case of their rental cars (mietwagen). The case study is here:
http://www.bannerblog.com.au/2007/12/sixt_ascii_text_ads.php
If you go to Google.de the campaign is no longer active, so it appears Google has already banned future uses. Thanks to Jacob Ford.
Misha Cornes





Comments (2)
Warning: the Bannerblog link points to https://webmail.organic.com/!!!
Posted on December 20, 2007 00:07
Oops. Fixed. Thanks for the heads-up.
Posted on December 20, 2007 10:10