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GasMoney Media at www.gasmoney.net, a webmaster and techie focused site, is hoping to hit the sweet spot with its Openads integration.
We got a nice friendly note from Steve telling us about the shift to Openads ad serving technology.
At the moment, Steve’s delivering ad content to his home page and forum pages. He tells us that he’s also set up a page to make it easy to buy adverts on his site.
Steve ’switched up’ to Openads from a banner rotator because of its “versatility” and was “perfect for me”. He had needed more features and Openads delivered.
Specifically, he wanted to set up an account providing advertisers with the ability to control their own banners. He explained a situation whereby 20 advertisers could want to change all at once. A real pain by any account with a traditional solution. With Openads, a snap.
He also found it “very easy to install … very easy to use. A five-year-old can install it as long as they know their way around a computer,” he said. On the functionality side he’s made some suggestions about improving the interface but can’t think of any additional features needed at this point.
Presently, Steve’s preferred ad networks include a hosting company, Google AdSense and CPA affiliates.
Technology-wise, Steve’s using open source software — Openads, of course, and WordPress.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you openads! And Gasmoney does look nice up there! Cant wait for the next release and hopefully my suggestions will be integrated. cant wait!
Comment by Gasmoney — December 31, 2007 @ 6:35 am
It’ll work till you have real traffic on the site. OpenADs is not a good solution for high traffic. You’ll end up spending $500-$1000 month to run the AD server with the HUGE load it has. I suggest you look at solutions like Tribal Fusion or Right Media. They are scalable supported solutions with geo-targeting and frequency capping the work properly, unlike OpenAds where you’ll be guessing constantly why the weighting and scheduling never works as expected. Anyone who’s used OA in a high demand situation knows that I am talking about. People here like at OA want you to think it will work while they scramble to fix things and then offer you their $150 hour support contractors to help fix their untesed code. I am Just trying to help someone here avoid the same rancid experience we have had with OA. We lost thousands of dollars because of OA and realized its one of the worst AD serving options out there even if the code is free. We learned to NEVER trust our revenues to an Open Source app and company so poorly run as this.
Comment by Jack — December 31, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
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