diff --git a/site/lib/src/components/layout/banner.dart b/site/lib/src/components/layout/banner.dart
index 6e5f0797705..78e02d176f4 100644
--- a/site/lib/src/components/layout/banner.dart
+++ b/site/lib/src/components/layout/banner.dart
@@ -4,43 +4,15 @@
 
 import 'package:jaspr/jaspr.dart';
 
-/// The information to display in the site banner,
-/// as configured in the `src/data/banner.yml` file.
-@immutable
-final class BannerContent {
-  final String text;
-  final String linkText;
-  final String linkUri;
-  final bool newTab;
-
-  const BannerContent({
-    required this.text,
-    required this.linkText,
-    required this.linkUri,
-    this.newTab = false,
-  });
-
-  factory BannerContent.fromMap(Map<String, Object?> bannerData) {
-    final text = bannerData['text'] as String;
-    final link = bannerData['link'] as Map<Object?, Object?>;
-    final linkText = link['text'] as String;
-    final linkUri = link['url'] as String;
-    final newTab = link['newTab'] as bool? ?? false;
-
-    return BannerContent(
-      text: text,
-      linkText: linkText,
-      linkUri: linkUri,
-      newTab: newTab,
-    );
-  }
-}
-
 /// The site-wide banner.
 class DashBanner extends StatelessComponent {
-  const DashBanner(this.content, {super.key});
+  const DashBanner(this.inlineHtmlContent, {super.key});
 
-  final BannerContent content;
+  /// The raw, inline HTML content to render in the banner.
+  ///
+  /// This should only be sourced from managed content,
+  /// such as our checked-in data files.
+  final String inlineHtmlContent;
 
   @override
   Component build(BuildContext context) => div(
@@ -48,13 +20,7 @@ class DashBanner extends StatelessComponent {
     attributes: {'role': 'alert'},
     [
       p([
-        text(content.text),
-        text(' '),
-        a(
-          href: content.linkUri,
-          target: content.newTab ? Target.blank : null,
-          [text(content.linkText)],
-        ),
+        raw(inlineHtmlContent),
       ]),
     ],
   );
diff --git a/site/lib/src/layouts/doc_layout.dart b/site/lib/src/layouts/doc_layout.dart
index 437c2d5d7e3..e4cddf58918 100644
--- a/site/lib/src/layouts/doc_layout.dart
+++ b/site/lib/src/layouts/doc_layout.dart
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ class DocLayout extends FlutterDocsLayout {
               currentTitle: pageTitle,
             ),
           if (showBanner)
-            if (page.data['banner'] case final Map<String, Object?> bannerData)
-              DashBanner(BannerContent.fromMap(bannerData)),
+            if (siteData['bannerHtml'] case final String bannerHtml
+                when bannerHtml.trim().isNotEmpty)
+              DashBanner(bannerHtml),
           div(classes: 'after-leading-content', [
             if (tocData != null)
               aside(id: 'side-menu', [
diff --git a/src/data/banner.yml b/src/data/banner.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 84b162489f6..00000000000
--- a/src/data/banner.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-text: >-
-  Don't miss the live Flutter and Dart
-  live Q & A happening Wednesday, Nov 12 at 11am PST.
-link:
-  text: "Be there!"
-  url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb3gP4p5bw"
-  newTab: true
diff --git a/src/data/site.yml b/src/data/site.yml
index 03edddfbceb..1879764509f 100644
--- a/src/data/site.yml
+++ b/src/data/site.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ email: flutter-dev@googlegroups.com
 
 showBanner: true
 
+# The raw, inline HTML to display in the banner.
+# Is automatically wrapped in a paragraph tag.
+bannerHtml: >-
+  Don't miss the live Flutter and Dart Q&A happening
+  today, November 12 at 11am PST.
+  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb3gP4p5bw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Join us!</a>
+
 branch: main
 repo:
   organization: https://github.com/flutter