Playable Ads 101: the short history of interactive creatives

Display advertising has spent fifteen years optimizing for impressions. The attention economy has been quietly optimizing against it.

Playable ads emerged from mobile gaming, where developers needed to show gameplay before the install. The format quickly escaped its origin.

This post covers the three phases of the transition: static → video → interactive — and what each phase taught us about attention.

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