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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ad crawl" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of online advertising, referring to a type of advertisement that appears in a scrolling format, often at the bottom of a webpage.
Example: "The website features an ad crawl that displays various promotions from different brands as users scroll down the page."
Alternatives: "advertisement ticker" or "ad banner".
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But the ad crawl was dropped, according to the person briefed on the movie, and the filmmakers, with a close eye on the headlines, are still looking for any final beats.
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But there are lots of alternatives traditional banner ads around the video in the player itself, clickable ad "bugs" that crawl across the screen, pop-up ad-overlays, even video hyperlinks that make people and objects inside the videos linkable.
Along the way, ad man after ad man crawls from under rocks in the Hollywood Hills to gleefully tell us how they twisted our desires, invoked our primal fears and conned us all out of our money.
The boom in ad-blocking technology is driven by three factors: annoyance at the content of ads; annoyance at the effect of ads in slowing computers to a crawl and worries about privacy.
That's why newer types of ads, such as click-able ad overlays or ad bugs that crawl across the screen, are more promising.
"ATTENTION TIME WARNER CABLE SUBSCRIBERS" runs the crawl on one CBS ad, as urgent as an Amber alert.
No matter what you may think about the idea of crawling around inside an ad, or within your computer's display, this is likely to play a part in any next-generation user interfaces.
Adding a store comparison extension that can crawl the web for lower prices is a good start, and should save you a couple bucks here and there.
Ad slot: PlaceLocal automatically generates ads for local businesses by crawling the Web.
At first, viewers may feel a slight jolt of pleasure at the sight of a new visual effect, they say, but over time the intrusions contribute to the sense that the screen is far more cluttered — not just with ads, but with news crawls and other streams of information.
Investors see gold in possible business models built around the data Priceonomics crawls and ads shown to people about to make a purchase.
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