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[skywin]

Hello,

I have an affiliate system in my company where I use only flash banners, but I see we have few clicks and I am concerned is because many people use applications such as Adblock.

You think that would be better to use gif banners only?

Thanks.

[TheLaw]

If the ad banners are not of long movies (i.e. not too much movements) then I would suggest you use .gif

Personally on sites I have, I avoid to add flash banners and look for .gif ones if there are any.

[victor-t]

I think it's better to use gif just in case people used add-ons like FlashBlock and etc.

[larwilliams]

GIF if at all possible. Much better performance wise and file size wise

[agustan]

.gif should be good to go.
In some countries with low speed internet access, their users will suffering to download flash contents with big size/movie animation

[XeHSean]

You can turn your flash documents into .gif files

In any case, I'm sure most would agree that .gif is the way to go

[PaulM]

.gif - especially now that ipad and other mobile browsers increase (that dont support flash)... I woulndt worry too much about not having many clicks though - this isnt unusual.