Over the last two years, Apple has been trying to figure out the right way for the brand to live in online advertising. They couldn’t seem to get comfortable with the constraints of the online world; where the Internet can be a cluttered place and ads can get lost in the chaos. Most banner ads were small spaces on pages that were easily tuned out and ignored. It made the brand question how Apple could be Apple online?
They had to challenge the conventions of online. To do so they tried an experiment. Apple worked with a few big sites and asked them to allow Apple to try a whole new way of doing ads. Read more