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intermediads - a new take on button ads that takes the pain out of clicking
By Lovegin John | May 21, 2008
Intermediads is a new service just launched in closed beta. Developed by serial entreprenuer Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, it’s based around the idea of 125×125 advertising buttons. So that’s it? Not quite. These small rectangles give readers and advertisers very little information. They are basically pretty useless. So the idea is you hover over the ad and a small grey border appears, just like on a Flickr profile. If you then click on the border a small layer comes up with a few options. Check out The Next Web blog and hover over the ads for a live demo. After testing they hope to open the service up for other blogs to use, suggesting this could be a new type of ad network.
I don’t believe the idea is original - but since many blogs run this size of button ad and ads generally are annoying because you have to click away, and ad network based soley on this format could well appeal to blog readers and publishers. If I didn’t have to click away to a new page I might be more inclined to see what an advertiser was about. In fact, I wouldn’t mind advertising nearly so much.
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Originally by Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK on May 13, 2008, 11:01am
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