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by dplgk 3778 days ago
It's much easier to author and publish an animated ad using Flash than HTML/JS.
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>> It's much easier to author and publish an animated ad using Flash than HTML/JS.

I thought you just put a video tag and point it at the URL of a video file. What else is missing? ;-)

100% Browser support. And if you consider the only people that click ads are probably running IE 4, then browser support is pretty important.