Bored with the same old banner ads? Looking for a new and exciting way to promote your product and service on the web? Activeworlds has the new venue you’ve been looking for.

Instead of a flat image on a web page, your advertisements appear on large, free-standing billboards within the Active Worlds 3D virtual space. Activeworlds maintains several billboards located in popular locations throughout the Active Worlds Universe.

On the World Wide Web, a user typically spends less than a minute at each web page. Thus, they are only exposed to your advertisement for a few seconds at best. Within Active Worlds, visitors often spend over an hour in a single location. Your advertisement will be visible to them during the entire time!

How it works:

While advertising on the web in full 3D may seem complex, behind the scenes the mechanism works exactly the same as a traditional 2D banner advertisement. The URL to your advertisement image is simply placed on the billboard, which all visitors will see. The "click-through" URL to your web site is also placed on the billboard. When visitors click on the billboard, their web browsers are automatically taken to your web site.

Since the advertisement can be downloaded from any web server via HTTP, advertising in Active Worlds is compatible with existing web-based advertising distribution and impression monitoring systems.

Advanced features:

Active Worlds is a fully multimedia capable environment. As such, it supports advanced features such as sounds, music and animations. If you are looking to really take your web advertising to the next level, ask us about our advanced advertising options. In 3D there really is no limit to what can be done. For example, instead of a 2D image, we could create a rotating 3D version of your logo to attract attention. We can even build you an entire virtual corporate headquarters in cyberspace!

Interested?

Please see our rate card for the range of options we offer.

If you would like to know more information about advertising in Active Worlds or if you have any technical questions, please call (978) 499-0222 or email us. We are eager to work with you to optimize your advertisements in order to take full advantage of all the features Active Worlds has to offer.