Martin Agency Staffer Gets Marriage Proposal via Banner Ads

Lovely, but did she click on them?

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If you're a nerdy advertising person, there are loads of romantic ways to ask your girlfriend to marry you. You can send her an infographic. You can crowdsource the proposal so it becomes a Photoshop meme. But for the more traditional-minded person, these options might seem gauche. What's wrong with a couple of nice banner ads? That seems to have been ad salesman Scott Sklar's thinking. Late last month, Sklar popped the question to his girlfriend, Erica Plotkin, a digital associate media director at The Martin Agency's New York office, on banner ads at BBC.com.

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