The ads can be simple text, image, animated image, flash, video, or rich media ads.

This means businesses pay the newspaper to have their advertisement placed on a page - either in the form of a static or animated image.

The animated image shows capillary routing footprint between a pair of nodes in a mobile ad-hoc network.

A sine wave propagating through such a ring towards the reader distorts the ring in a characteristic, rhythmic fashion (animated image to the right).

It has endless scope for using emoticons and gifs (for animated images), with which many people like to leaven their conversation.