AOL Hopes These 2 New Ad Formats Will Thwart Off Ad Blocking

Including giving out free Verizon data

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AOL wants marketers to help build its next ad formats. At CES today, the Verizon-owned company is launching a new initiative called BrandBuilder that includes two new types of ads.

By working directly with marketers to conceptualize ad formats and creative, AOL hopes to create custom and native ads that encourage consumers to not use an ad blocker. One of the new ad units, for example, doles out free Verizon data in exchange for clicking on a mobile ad to download a coupon.

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