Abstract: A system and method is provided for adding an advertisement to a personal communication and providing additional communication data to a recipient that interacts with the advertisement regardless of the network device the recipient is utilizing. A sender network device communicates with an advertising application operating on a Web site to generate a personal communication containing at least one advertisement. In one embodiment of the present invention, the advertising application is configured to select an advertisement based on at least a portion of the content of the personal communication. If the advertisement is interactive, and the advertisement is interacted with, the advertising application will provide the recipient with additional communication data in a format that can be understood by the recipient network device.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for adding an advertisement to a personal communication and providing additional communication data to a recipient that interacts with the advertisement regardless of the network device the recipient is utilizing. A sender network device communicates with an advertising application operating on a Web site to generate a personal communication containing a sender-selected advertisement. When the sender indicates that the personal communication is to be sent, the advertising application stores the message data, sender data, and advertisement data in a Web site memory device, and utilizes the message, sender, and advertisement data to format, and send, a personal communication containing a sender-selected advertisement to the designated recipient. If the sender-selected advertisement is provided by a third party advertiser, the message, sender, and advertisement data is utilized to compensate the sender of that advertisement for sending it to at least one recipient.