Deja News, Mining Company Claim Top Banner Honors

Web measurement firm NetRatings released the top 10 ad banners for the week ending Oct. 3.

They were:

1. Deja News: Who’s your favorite artist?
2. Deja News: What’s your favorite TV show?
3. GoTo.com: Type in what you’re looking for
4. Autoweb.com: Get the best deal now!
5. Next Card: Online Approvals 2.9% APR
6. The Mining Company: The 500 sites that Yahoo is afraid to list.
7. The Mining Company: We mine the Net so you don’t have to.
8. Bonus Mail: Would you read a few more email messages if you got cool free prizes for doing so?
9. Feed Mag: Do you want to read an intelligent opinionated web magazine?
10. Travelocity/Yahoo: Win a trip to London.

For the week ending Oct. 10, honors went to:

1. The Mining Company: The 500 sites that Yahoo is afraid to list.
2. Bonus Mail: Would you read a few more email messages if you got cool free prizes for doing so?
3. Bonus Mail: Free CD’s. Free pizza. Free clothes. Free air miles. Free love. Well, four out of five ain’t bad.
4. The Mining Company: We mine the Net so you don’t have to.
5. Bonzi Software: Speed up your Internet connection now!
6. Acceleration Software: Stop waiting for pages to load
7. Deja News: Who’s your favorite artist?
8. Link Exchange: Want free stats, free advertising, or a free mailing list for your site?
9. At Hand Network Yellow Pages: Local information at you’re fingertips.
10. GoTo.com: Type in what your looking for

NetRatings said its rankings are based on measurement of Web activity by a representative panel of more than 3,500 Internet users 18 years and older who access the Web from home.