Question:
interested in using OpenX on a Joomla 1.15 site. I would like the
advertiser to be able to register online, upload their banner advertisement and pay using a credit card with Authorize.net integration.
Answer:
You can make custom registration where advertiser can signup and pay through paypal using OpenX API.
Or you can use below mod to make signup
http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/Advanced-Advertiser-SignUp-With-All-Permissions/prod_1262.html
Question:
Does OpenX provide the funcionality of affiliate network out of the box. If no what can you What I need is the functionality of an affiliate network system but with heavy customization.The main modules Affiliate/Publisher, Merchant/Advertiser, Admin and Tracking module will be similar but no advertisements/programs will be needed. Of course the general flow of clicking on a link directing to The affiliate server and then redirecting to the merchant will exist including collecting payment and distributing them to affiliates.
Answer
Yes, OpenX has Affiliate (Publisher), Merchant (Advertiser), Admin and tracking module and we can use it as basic affiliate network for your
requirements.
As you know, Affiliates network will have many unique functionality which openx doent have. for this, we need to customize OpenX to make as affiliate network.
Question:
On ad/period expiry banner stops showing automatically and Advertiser is notified along with detailed report.
Answer:
It exist in openads some permission needs to be set manually to display
Question :
http://www.adservermods.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=1322
How exactly is this module working? Based on what? IP, cookie, ?
Answer:
This module is to get rid of fraud clicks, through Openx we can’t categorize the fraud clicks. Openx only calculate the no. of clicks on those particular ads.
But somebody mishandles this facility for to earn more money. They clicks on the add as much as possible. So prevent from the fraud click system adservermods.com has developed this module for to enrich capability of openx.
If you installed this module, the admin/advertiser can set how long times interval the same user can clicks the same add.
Its works based on Ip, cookies and some internal values testing.
Question:
We would like to be able to limit a single visitor to only register a single click on a specific banner in a 30 minute period.
Answer
We can limit ads by views, not clicks in openx but if we customize openx then we can limit user to click on once per X time on specific banner.
Question:
We are looking for several mods but one key would be the ability to serve multiple banners in a cluster. I looked on your openxmods site and could not find so maybe you have it already, maybe you don’t. e.g. A publisher creates a Zone that is of a given size and shape and type. The type would be a cluster of ads instead of a single ad. Say 2, 3, 4, 5, maybe up to ten different ads that would rotate in that zone’s space. The arrangement and other zone properties would also need to be set and stored within the system.
Answer:
Go through these products.
Product 2: http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/all-banners-invocation-code/prod_1296.html
Product 3: http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/all-banners-invocation-code-with-custom-css/prod_1297.html
Question:
I just wasn’t sure if there were specific submission rules for flash ads with the program. I looked in the manual however I didn’t see any special rules or instructions for submitting. Thanks for the insight.
Answer:
Yes, there is no information about flash validation in openx but this may help you.
http://www.openx.org/en/docs/2.4/userguide/banner-add-flash
If you want to display .flv type of flash ads then go for this mod it will be useful http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/flv-banner-for-openx/prod_1272.html
You said, that you are a “pro” on customizing OpenX to fit perfectly to vBulletin.
I’m new to OpenX so i will say the best way is, that i will tell you what came to my mind and then you say if it’s possible and how long will this take to complete.
So, we are a big bulletin board (over 70.000 registererd User) and we want
to target them directly. Right now, we have different user group like
male/female or over18
If we create a new add in OpenX, we want to choose which user(group) we
want to reach (like male, female or both).
Do you think thats possible to create a OpenX Plugin?
Answer
Yes, we can target groups using variable targeting, even we can customize UI such that we can selecte target groups from banner settings.
Question:
I have a question about Billing System Integration mods for Open X. I believe it will meet our needs, except we sell advertising based on time (week, month, year, etc.) instead of CPM or clicks. Is it possible to sell advertising based on time rather than CPM or clicks with one of them?
Answer:
Yes, it is possible to implement system which will sell ad-space in time frame instead of CPC or CPM.
You can make below system using OpenX API.
1) Admin can set cost for week, month, and year wise.
2) Advertiser will have new tab “My Account” where he can purchase ad space (zone) on time base for each his campaigns. Suppose, he buys ad space (zone) for month then mod will set expiration date of his campaigns after 30 days or it will add 30 days to existing expiration date.
Question:
- Advanced to expert advice on best practices in working with
OpenX to create and customize a multi-user, multi-publisher ad server.
- Advanced to expert advice on best practices in working with
OpenX to integrate ad server data within a multi-user, multi-publisher
central admin panel to provide comprehensive ad management and
reporting.
- Custom solutions to create new functionality or enable export
of OpenX generated data for inventory management and reporting,
comprehensive statistics reports by client across multiple ad types, and
billing functions.
- Custom solutions to export OpenX generated data into
tables for import into billing systems such as QuickBooks.
Answer:
We have already worked for many clients to implement unique billing system for this.
We can give advertiser/publisher self signup where they can signup for site.
Users as Advertiser can create campaign, banners and he can set campaign budget, expiration date, frequency capping, etc. Users as publisher can create zones (set it’s setting) and take invocation code to paste on his side.
Advertiser can pay to admin to purchase inventory while admin can pay publishers through his admin (publisher earning will be set by admin. Like 60% advertiser revenue)
Demo site with most of requirements:
http://demo.openxservices.com/ (Implementing Functionality in OpenX UI)
http://www.gpreneur.com/OpenxPluginDemo/ (Implemented functionality With new UI and OpenX as backend)