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Ultimately you should be looking at selling your own adverts anyway (or at least using a genuine advertising agency who can pull in decent targetted adverts), t

by corin_ 16y ago

Ultimately you should be looking at selling your own adverts anyway (or at least using a genuine advertising agency who can pull in decent targetted adverts), then you won't have problems with Analytics, and you'll also make a hell of a lot more money.

robryan 16y ago
There is a time cost for this though, unless you reach a certain size its not really worth the time organising it when you can just slap adsense or the like on there.
buro9 16y ago
I'm looking at selling my own adverts and I have advertisers wanting to give me their money and copy. Does anyone know of a system to automate that stuff? What I'm looking for needs to have: * Allow advertisers to upload copy and request an advert slot. * Allow an advert slot to be time-based regardless of number of impressions (1 month in a slot that rotates 10 adverts). * Send me an email when a slot has been booked so that I review the advert against the end user agreement (that it's not abusive, totally inappropriate). * That I can approve an advert and then it sends a message to the advertiser with an invoice and requesting payment. * That the advertiser then pays via Google Checkout, PayPal, etc. * That after all of that the advert goes live for a scheduled period of time. * That the advertiser can see impressions, stats and reports letting them know the success of their campaign. * It should look professional and ideally be themeable/skinnable or self-hosted so that I can make it seamless (the advertisers want to deal with me... I want to reduce my work). Basically... aside from me approving the content I want a system that hand-holds the advertiser through the whole process and shoves the advert on the site and just gives me the money at the end. I have 4.5 million page views per month, on a very strong community website. What I've seen out there that does part of the above doesn't do the whole story... I'm quite willing to pay to get the above. I'm probably just not googling for the right terms, what should I be looking for? At the moment I'm leaving money on the table because my time and sanity is more important to me than the money. I realise that this isn't the best business sense and so either I find some tool to help me, or find the time to build one myself.
- will_critchlow 16y ago
  Check out Open X: http://www.openx.org/ http://www.openx.org/ I haven't checked it in detail against your requirements, but at the very least if it doesn't do what you want, it'll give you the terminology to search for things you can spend more money on that do what you want...
  - dejb 16y ago
    Unfortunately the downloadable product seems to be close to dead. There have been serious security problems that have not been addressed for many months. Take a look at the forum to see what I mean. Their server side product must be their focus.
    - will_critchlow 16y ago
      That's a shame. I'd heard good things about it in the past. I believe Google are investing in their admanager product with the doubleclick acquisition, but I haven't heard anything about it recently: https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/dfp/info/welcome.html https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/dfp/info/welcome.html
- deleted 16y ago
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- arn 16y ago
  The self serve ad market has been grossly ignored. A good startup opportunity. http://buysellads.com http://buysellads.com does some of it, but is very limited in the options (30 day buy only). https://www.isocket.com/ https://www.isocket.com/ promises to do more, and seems like a very promising option. it's in private beta now. So, I haven't tried it.
  - buro9 16y ago
    isocket looks to be exactly what I need. I've just signed up to the private beta and if accepted will feed back my experience. Thanks for pointing it out (I'd never have found it).

by corin_ 16y ago

robryan 16y ago

There is a time cost for this though, unless you reach a certain size its not really worth the time organising it when you can just slap adsense or the like on there.

buro9 16y ago

I'm looking at selling my own adverts and I have advertisers wanting to give me their money and copy. Does anyone know of a system to automate that stuff? What I'm looking for needs to have: * Allow advertisers to upload copy and request an advert slot. * Allow an advert slot to be time-based regardless of number of impressions (1 month in a slot that rotates 10 adverts). * Send me an email when a slot has been booked so that I review the advert against the end user agreement (that it's not abusive, totally inappropriate). * That I can approve an advert and then it sends a message to the advertiser with an invoice and requesting payment. * That the advertiser then pays via Google Checkout, PayPal, etc. * That after all of that the advert goes live for a scheduled period of time. * That the advertiser can see impressions, stats and reports letting them know the success of their campaign. * It should look professional and ideally be themeable/skinnable or self-hosted so that I can make it seamless (the advertisers want to deal with me... I want to reduce my work). Basically... aside from me approving the content I want a system that hand-holds the advertiser through the whole process and shoves the advert on the site and just gives me the money at the end. I have 4.5 million page views per month, on a very strong community website. What I've seen out there that does part of the above doesn't do the whole story... I'm quite willing to pay to get the above. I'm probably just not googling for the right terms, what should I be looking for? At the moment I'm leaving money on the table because my time and sanity is more important to me than the money. I realise that this isn't the best business sense and so either I find some tool to help me, or find the time to build one myself.

will_critchlow 16y ago
Check out Open X: http://www.openx.org/ http://www.openx.org/ I haven't checked it in detail against your requirements, but at the very least if it doesn't do what you want, it'll give you the terminology to search for things you can spend more money on that do what you want...
- dejb 16y ago
  Unfortunately the downloadable product seems to be close to dead. There have been serious security problems that have not been addressed for many months. Take a look at the forum to see what I mean. Their server side product must be their focus.
  - will_critchlow 16y ago
    That's a shame. I'd heard good things about it in the past. I believe Google are investing in their admanager product with the doubleclick acquisition, but I haven't heard anything about it recently: https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/dfp/info/welcome.html https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/dfp/info/welcome.html
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arn 16y ago
The self serve ad market has been grossly ignored. A good startup opportunity. http://buysellads.com http://buysellads.com does some of it, but is very limited in the options (30 day buy only). https://www.isocket.com/ https://www.isocket.com/ promises to do more, and seems like a very promising option. it's in private beta now. So, I haven't tried it.
- buro9 16y ago
  isocket looks to be exactly what I need. I've just signed up to the private beta and if accepted will feed back my experience. Thanks for pointing it out (I'd never have found it).