LiveMarkets.com - Live Chat-Enabled Ads

LiveMarkets.com is a banner ad and a chat window ad serving company. Most of their clients are advertisers wanting to connect in a different and potentially more powerful way with their customers on the internet. Instead of clicking on the banner ad, and taken to a web site, users are invited to click on the banner ad and bring up a chat window. A live person from the advertiser's staff answers any queries via a typed 'live' chat session. It is in this chat window that advertisers are able to personally customize this advertising experience (engagement) with there customers on a one on one level.

"LiveMarkets takes traditional internet advertising to the next level by incorporating live chat into your ad or banner - connecting prospects with you, instantly."

Livemarkets is one of the few companies on the web with the ability to create a chat from a banner ad or text link anywhere. Livemarkets also has a 'Duplicitous banner' which constantly pings the chat client to see if it is awake, if it is it display a banner which says "Click to chat" if it is asleep it displays a different banner to click to the web site. That way no chat goes unchatted.

Is this an effective way of publicizing? Do people trust on this chat thing?