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banner ad

British  

noun

  1. a banner advertising a product

  2. an advert along the top of a page of a website

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Example Sentences

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A banner ad for a bottle of Tide’s laundry detergent most recently spotted by Yoder blasted out the message: “Boosted: Cleaner, whiter, brighter, fresher.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Neither would a banner ad on a website reading, “Manufacturing jobs available.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Offering “Cool Posts From Around the Web,” the banner ad serves up a batch of knowingly inane curiosity gap headlines whose answers are all basically “There’s this movie out, called Jojo Rabbit, you see.”

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2019

Price is such an issue with electric skateboards right now that I was recently served a banner ad that prompted me to sign up for a monthly financing program just to buy one.

From The Verge • Apr. 2, 2016

Node:banner ad, Next:banner site, Previous:banner, Up:= B = banner ad n.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.