Its rare that you find creative banners that really catch your eye.
These Apple ads have apparently been around for some time, but while visiting NYTime.com over the weekend, they caught my eye.

Simple can be really creative, as both Apple and Google have both proved, this Apple banner which takes a small swing at its competitor Microsoft uses some clever interaction between the top banner and the right column skyscraper. I refreshed the page a few times just to see it work so nicely. They run almost like a short commercial.
you can find the working ones here.

These Facebook ads that starting running over the weekend inside the feeds also perhaps try to take a light stab at Google :-)
Very Nice.

Ron

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