AdManagement Solutions

BobbyDouglas · #1 30-Mar-2004, 14:43

I am on the search for an ad management solution that will allow me to set up banners only (not text ads) that will be displaed in three different places on one same page.

I want to have one ad on the right side, then one below that, and then finally one below that one. An example set-up can be found in the picture attached.

Basically, I want to be able to send out a weekly report of the ad hits, and views. It will also contain the URL for the banner, the URL that the banner points to, and the total number of clicks to date inside of this report.

It would also be nice if there was an area where the client could login, that will show graphical representations of the data collected.

Maybe in the future sometime, I would like to have the banners rotate between images. But in no point will the three banners on the page have the same image as the other. (If you have a roating banner function, you have the ability to get the same image as before- something that cannot happen).

I have taken a look through some of the descriptions of the scripts found on houtscripts: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...ent/index.html

Does anyone have a reccomendation for me to try one of these ad management scripts? Or maybe someone knows of another peice of software that I could use that will work.

I am willing to spend $50 for the script- if I have to. But would prefer to find a free solution for it.

I do like the banner setup for GIDForums™, however, I need to place multiple banners on the same page, without having the banners be repeated. Not sure if this script JdS has will do this or not. Maybe you can clarify this for me

Div · #2 30-Mar-2004, 17:09

Have you looked at phpAdsnew?

BobbyDouglas · #3 30-Mar-2004, 22:52

Just installed it. It looks awesome. But I am having lots of trouble trying to add zones/banners.

Basically, I want to have three different areas (zone I believe) on the same page to advertise (ex placement in the screenshot). As well as threee different users initially.

At no time will two banners display at the same time.

Anyone have an idea about what I can do to accomplish this? The 82 page admin file desn't even explain these features. Rather suprising considering it is 82 pages long.

I want to have three people (initially) and have their banner (only 1) to rotate between the other two people who are going to advertise.

JdS · #4 31-Mar-2004, 09:52

Oh! This should be easy but I don't have the strength to explain in detail right now. Maybe when I get a chance tomorrow or the day after?

BobbyDouglas · #5 31-Mar-2004, 12:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by JdS

Oh! This should be easy but I don't have the strength to explain in detail right now. Maybe when I get a chance tomorrow or the day after?

- Thanks JdS. I am going to try and see if someone else can explain it to me in the meantime. I will post back here if someone else has helped me, so you don't waste your time typing it up

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BobbyDouglas · #6 31-Mar-2004, 15:54

Here it is... Lets see if it works for me.

Quote:

Ok let me get a bit more specific:
Go to Inventory -> Publichers and Zones and add a publisher (if you have not already done so). A publisher is the "webiste" where the ads will apear.

After you create the publisher, you will see it in the publishers list (under Inventory -> Publishers and Zones). Click on the publisher you want to add a zone to. The zones are the specific areas in the webpages of this website (which ofourse may contain as many websites as you want) in which the banner's will appear. You can use the same zone for many webpages.

After you click on the Publisher's name, go to "zone overview". Click on "Add new zone". Now you can add a zone, and edit its preferences (Type, name, size etc). Be careful: When you assign a banner to this zone later, it MUST be of the correct type and the same size, or else the banner will not apear in the zone. So if the zone has a size of 468*60 tha banner needs to be of the same size.

In the Publisher's zone overview you can now see all the zones you have added. Click on its name to edit its properties and associate it with banners. You will of course need to create them first

To associate a banner to a zone:
Go to Inventory -> Advertisers and Campaigns and create a new advertiser . Click on the advertisers name. Go to campaign overview and add a new campaign for this advertiser. Click on the campaigns name after you have created it to edit its properties. To add a banner to this campaign go to "Banner Overview". To assign this campaign to a zone go to "Linked Zones". You should see a list of all the zones you have crated there.

In Inventory -> Publishers and zones edit a publisher and go to zone overview. Edit the zones and make sure the linked banners are correct (you can set the linkedbanners from there too).

JdS · #7 01-Apr-2004, 02:47

The above explanation does NOT tell you how to avoid serving a the same banner or multiple banners off the same campaign that's meant to appear on a web page. This is just the basics of how to set up a banner in phpadsnew. If you think that was confusing wait till you get to the "Which InvocationCode Method to use?" bit

Which reminds me, I have to update my version of phpadsnew soon too... I'll do that and see if anything has changed tremendously.

BobbyDouglas · #8 01-Apr-2004, 07:47

example[dot]com/testing_ad/ - not working quite right...

BobbyDouglas · #9 02-Apr-2004, 08:25

Ok, we got it working now. Not sure what I did to fix it. I think I created 2 more zones, and then had one banner in each zone.

Then it worked..

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