Black Friday Banner Ideas and Inspiring Examples

Ryan Barnett · November 7, 2024

 

Black Friday is one of the largest shopping expectations of the year, so getting a beautiful, good, attractive banner is crucial to attract consumers. A good example is that a custom banner can be effective at conveying your biggest value propositions on set, and can also get the messaging across that creates a sense of urgency and influences the destination, and customer decisions to make a purchase as soon as possible.

By using insMind's tools, making the professional Black Friday banner is not only easy but can also become effective. 

This blog explains what constitutes an effective Black Friday banner, the inspiration for great e-commerce ideas for the banner content, and how to build your own using insMind's must-have tools.

Table of Contents

  1. 01 Part 1. 5 elements to include in a Black Friday sale banner
  2. 02 Part 2. Black Friday E-commerce ideas
  3. 03 Part 3. How to create a Black Friday banner

Part 1. 5 elements to include in a Black Friday sale banner

Below are five important elements that every Black Friday banner should include:

Demonstration image showing Black Friday banner in insMind tool

Start With an Irresistible Headline

The headline will be a customer's first contact with their advert and therefore should be broad, striking and to the point. An example of a good Black Friday headline is "Get ready for the Black Friday Sale!!!" or"Sale, Sale until 50% off”. You can even use short and strong headlines which reiterate that such a sale is an exclusive one.

To extend it you may underline words in your headline or use massive and bright letters to highlight details such as 'Black Friday' or 'In Limited Time Only.' This can lead the customers’ eye directly and strengthen the message of the bespoke and time sensitive.

Make Sure to Add an Attractive Layout

The Black Friday banner should be structured and attractively designed, this way the buyer will be able to comprehend the intended message immediately. One must strike up a basic uncomplicated pattern so that the main choices are not obscured by other promotions.

The major sections and their structures must be Headline, Discounts Offered, Multiple images of the products, and CTA buttons.

Ensure they are in a good hierarchy, with the most important thing (such as the percentage of the discount) big and eye-catching.

Take enough space in between to make the writing balanced on the banner and easy on the eye. A well thought out design helps to create a visually pleasing sign and increases the likelihood of a viewer becoming a customer.

Use Black Friday Theme Color Palette

Without wanting to be clichéd, don't overlook the subtlety of employing a color scheme related to Black Fridays, black, red, and white, which will afford your banner a sense of continuity and recognition of the season.

· Black is the most used color for Black Friday designs as it is associated with professionalism, elite, and luxury.

· From such colors, Red adds a sense of urgency or makes things shaped with its help look more fascinating.

· White fills in the ready picture as the neutral background helping important texts or images to stand out in turn

Depending on which color you've chosen as the main one allows adding the accents and variations of the color spectrum conforming to the general style of the insMind brand perfectly. Adding these colors into your banners not only gets attention but brings the promotion more relevant to the Black Friday generic look.

Elements for Sense of Urgency

Promoting Black Friday is also the best time to establish the feeling of urgency because it focuses on a limited-time offer. You can do this by creating countdown timers or having limited-stock messages or turntables such as "While Supplies Last," or "Ends Tonight."

The urgency-creating phrases are always effective in making the client make fast decisions stating the risk of not ordering at present insMind provides the design items like animated stickers of count down and icons on the banners that will amplify the urgency signal to purchase the product faster.

Impactful Call to Action

A strong Call to action (CTA) tells the viewer what to do next, 'Shop Now', 'Buy Today' and ‘Don't miss out are other common ones. At this point, your CTA is one of the most important aspects of your design; do not make it subtle, ambiguous, or tricky to understand and respond to make sure that it stands out.

Your CTA should for instance use buttons with bright colors such as red or green to stand out on a dark background. Finally, this flexible Call to Action tool in insMind allows the generated buttons to fit your brand color and remind consumers about the sale's time-sensitive nature. 

Ensure that the CTA is in a prominent position, so the customer gets reminded of the right action to take leading to sales.

Part 2. Black Friday E-commerce ideas

Now that we have learned the important features to include in the Black Friday banner let us discuss some common themes. These can help improve the engagement and sale of the banner in question.

Special discounts on Black Friday

Demonstration image showing  Special discounts Template in the insMind tool

Promoting Black Friday is one of the most traditional but still efficient strategies. Your banner should advertise the best promotion allowing customers get the best deal, thus use 'Up to 70% Off!' or '50% Off for Limited Time Only'. Such strategies can include, for instance, promoting one of the popular categories of the store, or a particular brand.

Just below the banner, the audience is used to seeing a number that makes up a considerable portion of the price; this makes the audience click through, thus boosting the conversion rate. Using insMind's templates, you can draw these discounts on the banners to be noticeable, to be the center of attention.

Buy 2 Get 1 Free Deals

Demonstration image showing  Buy 2 Get 1 Free Deals in the insMind tool

Greeting to buy 1 free 1 or buy 2 get 2 free is catchy, positive and makes customers willing to spend more money to get more goods. Besides increasing mean order value this approach also makes a customer feel that they are receiving extra services.

On the banner, you should include big words pointing to this offer and quality pictures of the products that qualify for the deal. The "free" element makes it noticeable and even gives audiences a reason to visit your website to see what you offer. Using insMind, you are easily able to set we-banners to highlight the buy-one-get-one structure to customers at first glance.

Black Friday limited edition items:

Demonstration image showing Black Friday limited edition items in the insMind tool

Scarcity is an important psychological tool, and limited products for Black Friday can attract those people who want to be different. 

Advertisers should write this on the banner since it is widely known that Black Friday comes once a year and some of the products advertised might be out of stock most of the year.

This type encourages customers to buy certain products with urgency knowing that they will not find them again because they will run out of stock.

Ideally, use features such as "Limited Edition" or "Only Today" in bold fonts, with images of the product also placed right next to it. That is why with insMind's customizable tools you can design banners that will align these exclusivity items and make them focus-worthy thus looking appealing and urgent.

Flat discounts over specific orders :

Demonstration image showing Flat discounts over specific orders in the insMind tool

A banner using the ‘Spot discount’ is effective for orders higher than a specified amount requires this to motivate consumers to spend more. For instance, a message with the like of "$50 Off Orders Over $200" is likely to work wonders. This type of discount is very useful on Black Friday since the customers are always ready to spend some good amount on shopping.

The placement of this offer should be quite visible on your banner and normally if it is prominent enough it can be written in large fonts and contrasts with other elements of the banner. It will help the customers to go for a higher-value cart to avail of the offer. When using insMind, one can change the text size to make it prominent and the overall color to match the site.

Part 3. How to create a Black Friday banner

It is easy to make a Black Friday banner using insMind. Here's a step-by-step guide to get you started:

Step 1: Access in insMind

Screenshot showing how to access the Black Friday banner Tool in the insMind interface

You can go to insMind Black Friday and enjoy a variety of designs of templates and editing options designed for Black Friday promotion.

Step 2: Select your Template 

Screenshot demonstrating the process of Selecting a Template  in insMind

Locate a good product image or a design which you want to use in your banner. Having a high-quality picture on the face of the banner helps make the banner attractive and increase the confidence of the viewers.

Step 3: Modify with Colors and Text

Screenshot demonstrating the customization of a banner using insMind

Change the headline to suit your branding as well as the colors used and the text. Make sure to input your desired fonts, brand colors, and the rest of the creative input that makes the banner special when using tools available at insMind.

Step 4: Add Required Design Elements

Demonstration image showing a photo adding Required Design Elements using the insMind tool

These are common design components of the page and should be integral to the overall design of the page; CTA button, countdown timer and colorful elements. These elements bring beauty and practicality to your banner to make it more effective in that it can help bring about conversions.

Step 5: Download

Downloading an edited photo using insMind

Once the design is complete, download the banner in the format in which you have designed. Now you can place this banner on your website, social networks or any other advertisement you use.

Conclusion

With the Black Friday banners, it is possible to bring the Black Friday marketing and, consequently, the sales to a new level with the help of insMind, you can create such banners quickly and effectively using templates and elements customizable in accordance with the power of AI.

Ryan Barnett

I'm a freelance writer with a passion for editing and designing photos. Here at insMind, I strive to educate users on image creativity, photography, and enhancing product photos to help grow their businesses.