advertising

Best way to track impressions/clicks in a bespoke advertisement system?

I've been asked to create a bespoke advertisement system despite suggesting open source alternatives such as OpenX and DoubleClick for Publishers (the former Google Ad Manager). I've got the basics of the system set up, i.e. uploading creatives, creating positions and a mechanism to place creatives within positions; however, the area I'...

Openx Ad Delivery Issues

My System Apache 2.2.9 PHP 5.2.9 MySQL client version: 5.1.28-rc Openx v2.8.5 I am using the javascript single page call to serve my ads. I am running an in house CMS where everything is processed through a template.php file. My Issue The success of an ad being served seems to be very hit and miss. The placement or type of the ad ...

Hide a ADBannerView. Is it ok to move it offscreen?

Hello, When the user changes screen, I want to hide the current ADBannerView . Is there a "right" way to do that? If I move it offscreen for instance, is it fine: I was wondering if it could keep serving ads while not being displayed and then I would break some Apple Agreement. Is it also OK to cover an Ad with a modal view? Thanks! ...

How can I get people to try my framework?

I recently created an annotation-based validation framework in Javascript. In my humble opinion, it is useful and I think it has potential. However, I am not sure how to go about "advertising" it. At the very least I would like people to try it out and give me their comments/opinions/suggestions. In general, how do I go about getting my...

Drupal 6: Advertisement module for particular page with channel.

Hi friends, I use http://drupal.org/project/ad module. I have taxonomy pages for locations and I need to display location specific ads. so I have created a Channel for a location, and set the url (see below) and added my print ad() code to page. then, created some ads for the channel, but it doesnt display any ads under the provided url...

How did CNN get my Facebook login information?

I browsed to CNN and was horrified to see my Facebook picture there with a "post a comment" box. How did CNN get my Facebook login information? More specifically, how did CNN know I was logged into Facebook? It seems like CNN would have to have access to a cookie set by Facebook to do that. This is the only sequence I can think of. I...

How to write a server-efficient ad network script?

I'm writing an ad script that loads advertisements to websites across the network. The ad script has to keep a detailed log and serve advertisements. At the very minimum, it should log the number of impressions for each advertiser and the number of impressions for the publishers. I'm thinking about building the backend on PHP and then h...

Add rotator in android

How can I make text scroll? I want an effect similar to ad rotators in .net. ...

Difference between Ad company statistics, Google Analytics and Awstats on adult sites

Hi, I have this problem. I have web page with adult content and for several past months i had PPC advertisement on it. And I've noticed a big difference between Ad company statistics of my page, Google Analytics data and Awstats data on my server. For example, Ad company tells me, that i have 10K pageviews per day, Google Analytics tell...

Google Ads doesn't support HTTPS. What alternatives are there?

It's pretty well known that Google Ads doesn't support HTTPS, but since I store my user's session in a bearer token/cookie I feel the need to encrypt this information... at a minimum so I can protect my end users from being hacked. What are my choices? I'm sure someone has come across this before. Ideas that may work include Changin...

Creating an advertisement system for your web sites (my own AdSense).

I do not know the right term for this but say I want to have Ads on my web sites where there advertisers need to pay whenever users click on the web sites. How should one go about doing this? My approach is to link the Ad to a script file that will record the click in a database and redirect the user to the advertiser's site. I see one...

Any recommentations for self-service advertisement hosting?

Hi, I would like a advertisement hosting that does the following: 1. allow publisher to place ads themselves. 2. allow customers of the publisher to place ads themselves, i.e. self-service. Google Ads Manager (Double-Click) and OpenX don't do #2. At this moment, I have only found one that did: trafficspaces.com. I would like to evalu...

Are there any unobtrusive ad providers better than Google AdSense?

I want to display ads on my site without putting user-experience at risk. Ads must be unobtrusive and blend nicely with the rest of my design. The best ad implementation I've found is Facebook's skyscraper ads shown on the right side when visiting somebody's profile. Those ads are transparent, not misleading at all, and do not detract v...

iPhone Banner Ads

Hey All Im coming to adding a little advertising bar at the top of one of my apps. Its the first time im venturing into in app advertising. Just wondering what people have used and what is the best way? Can i use my google adsense? What is this iAd all about? Does that offer PPC like adsense? Look forward to your feedback. Alex ...

How is click-fraud detected?

Which methods do Google (and other PPC companies) use to prevent click fraud? ...

How do I add Advertising in my Android Apps?

Did google provide some special things or how do you add Adv. in your apps? ...

What is the problem in using admob in iOS 4

As per the guideline, Apple has blocked third party ad engines like admob to be used in applications of iOS4. But i still can see the admob running on OS 4 without any problem. Has apple not blocked the service yet? can i use admob on my OS 4 application for revenue? ...

How to download Google AdWords reports automatically

Hi, Is it possible to programmatically download an AdWords report (containing information about campaign and keyword performance like impressions, clicks, CTR, etc.) without logging in to the AdWords web site? I'm aware that they provide an API, but it appears that you have to be approved, and I don't need all the services -- just basi...

Java ads system

Are there any good open source ads (banner rotation) systems for Java (like OpenX for PHP)? Thanks in advance ...

Is there any way to get acces and change to Page before leave the server?

Hi, I want to change page content while it is going from the server because i need to add some advertisements inside the html elements that are advertisement holder. protected void Application_PreSendRequestContent(object sender, EventArgs e) this is good but i couldn't get access to HttpContext . Should i, i don't know :) But in thi...