The Cube Ad is one of the most powerful high-impact formats in display advertising. National brands have been using it for years ā and for good reason.
It’s a 3D rotating format that animates automatically when it enters the viewport. Users can swipe, click, and interact. The result: 6-10 seconds of engaged attention, compared to less than 1 second on most social media placements.
Why It Belongs in Every Sales Kit
The Cube Ad is an easy way for local publishers to offer their advertisers something they can’t get anywhere else ā and earn premium CPMs while doing it.
When a local business runs ads on Meta or Google, they get static banners. No animation. No interaction. No wow-effect. But when they work with a local publisher, they get access to high-impact display formats that simply don’t exist in self-serve ad platforms.
This is the competitive advantage for publishers with direct ad sales teams. The Cube Ad works on standard IAB placements like Medium Rectangle and Half Page, performs great on mobile, and gives sales reps a premium format to sell. Same product the big brands use ā now available for every local advertiser.
How to Build a Cube Ad in Under a Minute
In our latest video, we show exactly how it works. With Smartico Ad Studio, sales reps can create a Cube Ad in less than 60 seconds: enter the advertiser’s website URL, and our AI pulls the logo, extracts brand colors, grabs images, and suggests slogans automatically. Fine-tune with a few clicks. Send a live, interactive preview.
No Photoshop. No design skills. No waiting on creative teams.
Try It Out ā It’s Free
Ad Studio is free to use. Build as many spec ads as needed ā publishers only pay when they sell. With hundreds of templates and AI-powered creation, sales reps never walk into a pitch without a real ad example to wow advertisers.
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