I spent almost two hours, looking for Wordpress widget, which supports multiple instances and can embed banners into the sidebar. It looks like the solution is dead simple. Just use an instance of the default Text Widget and paste the HTML code for the banner inside.
Iko has an idea of showing Live RSS feeds in Wordpress Pages. Here is my solution to accomplish this task.
Wordpress supports Page templates, on which this solution is based.
Locate page.php in your template’s direcotory.
Copy the file and rename it to something like rsspage.php, and then open it for editing
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