Banner Rotator

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What Does Banner Rotator Mean?

Banner rotators are a form of software that rotates the banner ads that users on a particular website see each time the page is refreshed. Banner rotators are designed to stand out on a webpage and catch the consumer's eye.

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A banner rotator may also be called a banner ad rotator.

Techopedia Explains Banner Rotator

Banner rotator software loads banner advertisements and rotates them while website visitors are on a website. Banner rotator software prevents banners from becoming stagnant, thus making them more noticeable to a website's visitors. Banner rotator programs typically also give web publishers options such as how often certain banners will be displayed and where they will be displayed on a given web page.

The term is generally only used in the context of a small website. Larger publishers would use a more sophisticated ad-serving system. While it used to be that the technology to serve ads could be provided in a small script, modern day publishers need much more advanced tools to better target ads to site visitors.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.