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Which iPhone app ad solution gives the best rates?

I have a free iPhone app downloaded by 3,000 users, most of whom use my app at least once per day. So I plan to show ads in my app. Which ad solution is best? I looked in some sites, but no one is giving clear details about CPMs. How much will I get for 1,000 impressions using different ad solutions? ...

Is there any API to add ads to my desktop app

I am looking for a way to embed ads to my desktop APIs. There are planty solutions out there for web sites which stream ads from Ad Networks. However, I didn't find one which will allow to get a similar ad content to the app. Does any one have any experience with this? Thanks!! ...

How do I Inject Javascript with Firefox Extension

Hey guys, I am building a Firefox extension and have come a long way. One of the parts of my extension is where I display a DIV at the bottom of the page and I want to put an ad into the div, but for some reason every time it does so, it redirects to another page entirely with the ad on it. So it looks like its not allowing me to inse...

How can I Increase the number of visitors to a website?

I saw someone else ask this question recently but it was closed as spam before many decent answers appeared because they included links to their site. I am however interested in genuine answers to this on a more general basis. Avoiding talking about specific websites, what techniques and practises can people recommend to raising the le...

How to promote a new product/service?

This is often a bit of a problem for lone developers working on a product or a service. How can they get the word out about their product? I recently finished a project of mine and I'm struggling a bit to spread word of it. What do you think is the best way to promote your new product/service? Although this question isn't strictly pro...

Advertising with Silverlight

Let us suppose we have a site entirely written on Silverlight. All navigation occurs inside the SL application and data comes from services. I want to add advertisement in the app that will change on each navigation in the app (ultimately the ad should be relevant to the current content). So how to add advertisement to such kind of web...

Anyone know good documentation on competitive banner rotation?

I am looking to code me a banner management system that has users make their own banners in a CPI system. Anyone have any recommendations or documentations to have their banners cycle? Or better yet, cycle competitively? ...

Ad targeting for individual posts in Wordpress

Hello! I've been asked to come up with a plan (and implement) a way to customize ad campaigns on an individual post basis. Some background info: Our site in question runs off of Wordpress MU 2.7, and in our theme files we include calls to our ad server to display ads etc. This is managed with our own custom ad plugin, so we can easily ...

How do I build digital signage?

Hi, How do I go about building digital signage (the screens seen everywhere with advertising, or information), Which piece of hardware should i use to connect multiscreens to my computer? Does anyone know how and if there exists a managed framework for connecting to an amount of these monitors? Is it by IP or how does it work? /H4mm3rH...

Ad/Banner Management/Rotation for Ruby on Rails?

Hi, I have a niche site that I'd like to sell banners for directly, rather than going through adsense. I need a system to manage the whole process: displaying ads and an administrative interface to manage them. It doesn't have to be anything terribly fancy, although open source is greatly preferred so that I can grow the system as nee...

How to ensure http requests originate from a specific location?

HTTP Referer is the way I'm doing it at the moment. As everyone who's used this method knows it is not 100% accurate as the Referer header is optional and maybe fiddled with. Looking at how-to-ensure-access-to-my-web-service-from-my-code-only I'm still undsure of how to go about this in a minimal way. The situation: Advertising on som...

Creating Campaign in MicrosoftAdCenter Using API 6.0 and ASP.NET C#

I am working In dotNet Framework 3.5 ASP.NET C#. I want to create Campaign in Microsoft AdCenter API Version 6.0. For that I reffered the website 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb671919.aspx'. I created the same example with different Campaign Name (because campaign name is unique). But I got the error message 'Invalid client d...

JavaScript Code to Capture Networks Served Ad

Hi, I have a website where we use the Google Ad Manager to serve ads on the site. I would like to create a "Report this Ad" link that sends someone email about the problem, but it also needs to tell them the exact ad that was displayed at that moment. There is just a small snippet of code that Google replaces with the ad code, example...

What is a good ASP.NET Ad Server?

I'm looking for a good ad server that will run on ASP.NET. OpenX is great because it's open source but it's only for PHP. I found this: http://www.adserverbeans.com/ but it runs on Flex which i've never used. Would that work on an IIS server? Any good asp.net ad servers out there? ...

Advertising free software for free

I've finished an application that I've written as a hobby. I think it could be of great help to many individuals and businesses. I want to make it available for download -> free. I can make a nice website for it (and I'm willing to accept those costs). But I'm not willing to spend money advertising it. Can anyone recommend methods to cre...

How to display ads on outbound email?

I need to be able to display ads on email forwarded through a server (preferably postfix) based on the demographic information of the recipient. Basically a message will arrive for [email protected] and be forwarded to [email protected] with a small advertisement at the bottom. I would like to use postfix because it appears...

Embed advertisements in a windows application

I'm developing a free application and would like to make some money by embedding advertisements in it. Initially I had planned to embed ads in a webbrowser control (AdSense, Google Ads) but found that this isn't allowed. Does anybody have experience with this? The program is coded in C# and will run on PCs not windows mobile ...

Ads inside a Windows application. Suggest an ad network, please.

Hey! I'm going to place an unobtrusive ad blocks inside our Windows application. I want the ads to look like Google AdSense text blocks. But, unfortunately, Google AdSense policy does not allow to use ads in Windows application. Do you know a similar ad networks that allow to place ads in computer programs? The app is primary targeted f...

Calculating ad impression rank

I am currently working on a database ad rotating system where some of the ads have higher impression (or rank) than others and should be shown more often. What is the best way for calculating the impression rank while still keeping the appearance of "random" ads? What would the table structure for the database look like? Should the cal...

Best Practices: Tracking Banner Impressions

I am writing a banner ad engine in php/mysql. I don't want to use OpenX or a turn-key solution because there is going to be a bunch of custom functionality that I would rather not rely upon an existing system to have to flex to accommodate. Here is the thinking and my current approaches to the impressions architecture: Requests to ban...