Tags: Today we are thrilled to announce the launch of OpenX Hosted. Now web publishers everywhere can sign up to use the hosted version of the OpenX Ad Server.
We’ve opened up OpenX Hosted for free to publishers serving up to 25 million ad impressions per month and created professional and enterprise packages to give big publishers the additional service and support they need to manage their businesses.
Here’s what our beta testers are saying:
“OpenX Hosted is a really cool product. I’ve used OpenX Ad Server for years now, and OpenX Hosted gives me all the benefits without having to maintain my own ad server. As an affiliate myself, I rely on OpenX to help me manage my ad space and make more money online.”
Shawn Collins, Affiliate Summit
“OpenX Hosted lets us focus on what we do best, which is creating great content and selling ads for that content. Now we don’t have to worry about upgrades, hosting, ad server performance. OpenX Hosted takes all of that out of the equation so we can devote more resources back into making our sites great”
Dusty Davidson, BrightMix
Hundreds of publishers helped with testing and gave feedback which shaped OpenX Hosted. Our thanks go out to everybody – your efforts have helped us greatly - much appreciated!
Finally, we’d love to hear what you think. We’ll be hanging out in the OpenX chatroom and responding to blog comments so please post questions and share you thoughts.
A special call out to BrightMix - from my home town, Omaha, Nebraska!
Comment by Scott Switzer — October 29, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
OpenX Hosted and Market launched…
Today marks a special day for OpenX, because of the launch of two new offerings: OpenX Hosted and OpenX Market.
OpenX Hosted is a mostly free, hosted version of the well known ad server, available over the web, saving publishers from installing, config…
Trackback by Erik Geurts Weblog — October 29, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
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OpenX abre a todos los usuarios su servicio de ad hosting gratuito [EN]…
OpenX ha abierto su servicio de adserver hosting para todos los usuarios, ya es posible servir publicidad desde los servidores de OpenX, ahorrando así la instalación en el propio servidor. El modelo básico es gratuito (hasta 25 millones de impresion…
Trackback by meneame.net — October 30, 2008 @ 12:39 am
Do you have any plans to migrate existing OpenX installations to your hosted services? Also noticed no guaranteed up time on the free platform, so if someone really does near 25 million impressions they really should consider a paid solution.
Best,
Justin
Comment by Justin Hitt — October 30, 2008 @ 2:05 am
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@Justin Hitt -
There have been some efforts to build import and export scripts in the past. As you can imagine, this is quite difficult with the 50+ versions of software that we have out there in the wild. While import/export is not expected in the short term, it will be implemented in the long term - especially since we have an API in newer versions which makes import easier!
Comment by Scott Switzer — October 30, 2008 @ 11:58 am
This is very good news guys! I hope you have solid servers to handles all the requests. I predict a flood of publishers who will be using this service.
Comment by Vlad — October 30, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
25 Million Ad Impressions per month? I’ve been waiting for this for a long time, but I am disappointed. I’ve always seen OpenX as something for the ordinary joe the webmaster. Are there plans to lower the threshhold in the future?
Comment by clickfire — October 31, 2008 @ 12:11 am
Scott — Thanks for the shout out to Omaha! I take it you’re no longer in Nebraska? Shoot me an email if you get a chance, I’d love to chat sometime. dusty [at] brightmix.com. Love the new hosted solution, as I mentioned. Can’t wait to ramp up our usage..
Comment by Dusty — October 31, 2008 @ 5:33 am
Hi clickfire
OpenX is used by lots of different types of online advertising businesses.
OpenX is free for everyone serving less than 25m ads each month. We think this is ideal for smaller publishers who want professional ad management tools.
OpenX is also popular among larger websites and ad networks. The professional and enterprise packages bundle hosted with the additional service and support they have been asking for.
I hope this make sense.
cheers, Oliver
Comment by Oliver George — October 31, 2008 @ 7:17 am
@Vlad - We’ve got some amazing technologists (and technology) behind our hosted platform and we love a challenge. Bring it on!
Comment by Oliver George — October 31, 2008 @ 7:31 am
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This is a great milestone for OpenX. Congratulation to the team
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