Yahoo appoints cartoonist to revamp banners

HONG KONG: Yahoo has enlisted animator and cartoonist Larry Feign to redesign its online advertising.

Feign is director of Stvdio Media, which launched several series of banner ads for Yahoo to promote its new online games, music, e-greetings, astrology and other services. Each series consists of four to seven distinctly different animated banners.

"Our challenge was to make each individual banner unique, using eye catching graphics and packing in as much animation as possible, within strict and tiny file size limits. With so much banner advertising everywhere you look on the web, it's more and more difficult to grab a viewer's attention. We wanted to make sure they would sit up and take notice."