Comments on: OpenX 2008 Roadmap

By: Glitch

Glitch — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:45:24 +0000

I totally agree with Frederic. I’m only just starting to look for a decent ad management solution for my website and thought I had found the perfect solution with OpenX. This was until I noticed there is no (free) billing solution implemented even though this is/was #1 on the requests lists for more then two years.

Now I cant even find this feature in the tracking system.

By: test

test — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:54:54 +0000

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By: frederic sidler

frederic sidler — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:50:03 +0000

What about a billing integration. If I use openX for aggregating Google and/or Yahoo ads, it is fine. But if I want to use openX to allow third party advertisers to sell on my website, I need a billing system integrated with openX.

I spent few hours in the forum to check what was the status of this feature. I can see that this is someting people are requesting, but this doesn’t seem to be in your roadmap. Is there any other “valuable” solution that can be used to achieve such a goal or do I need to wait for this feature in a fortcoming release.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:58:54 +0000

Is there any news on building support for expandable Flash ads?

Regards,

Dean

By: Scott Switzer

Scott Switzer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:27:03 +0000

Hi Chuck,

Since v2.4, the delivery file names do not have the word ‘ad’ in them, and we have made the file names configurable. You do not need to edit source code to perform this. Basically, you need to: a) Rename the appropriate delivery files (e.g. ajs.php, ck.php, lg.php), and then change the names in the config file.

Good luck,
Scott

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:53:00 +0000

1 Feature that is sorely lacking is the ability to centrally change the name of the php script pages that server ads. The reason this feature is needed: If an Ad Blocker includes the script name in their filter there is no easy way around getting your adds back to the end user, other than modifying the Ad server build.

By: Omar

Omar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:32:01 +0000

Scott, I think your openness with about bugs has really confused people. It’s funny to see people who are concerned about the stability of openx when they probably are serving

By: Sandro Franchi

Sandro Franchi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:48:57 +0000

Great, so I’ll wait for it, thanks for your quick answer,

Sandro.

By: Scott Switzer

Scott Switzer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:07:04 +0000

Sandro,

The beta version (v2.5) is going to be released REALLY soon (a couple of days). We will continue to make bug fix releases available in our stable version (v2.4), and a new release from this version will be available in a week or two.

Cheers,
Scott

By: Kidd Hustle

Kidd Hustle — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:01:52 +0000

Good stuff.

Am eagerly awaiting the road map schedule. I agree that Google has too much power when it comes to ad server, especially with its Ad Manager. Open X needs to act as a counter balance. Am behind it 100%