I've been vaguely poking advertising network scripts like the one at http://www.phplemon.com/ and I'm not yet convinced. There's a few threads on advertising network scripts on this forum, which is why I'm here in the first place. However, I like drupal. I have several rather boring sites in drupal and haven't got past using CCK to add new content types. The question is - I have lots of free time, am slow, a bit lazy, and reasonably familiar with Drupal. I want to do an advertising network (the kind where advertisers and publishers sell space to each other) for very very family-friendly safe boring clean websites, the kind frequented by prudes, christians and parents of small children. So I'd be wanting to seriously edit an existing advertising script anyway so there was a lot of reporting features and the ability to really screen new adverts and I don't care much for locality features. Basically I have been utterly driven insane by the way most other networks don't have a good way of screening ALL even vaguely questionable content. I have a perfect domain name I've been happily squatting for the last yearish, so that bit is done. Is this the kind of thing that could be done by extending a standard Drupal install or am I insane? I was thinking just having content types for ads for advertisers and ad blocks for publishers, Project Wonderful style. And some other ... uh ... stuff ... to glue it together.
I'd say that a 20% cut in the case of ads sold to an advertiser is a reasonable deal. It's already a very generous cut for the other two sides.I just set the default adbard image to display but it's not on my site. I guess this is part of the caching system that you have in place. Either clearing that part of the cache or a "drupal_set_message" that alerted me that changes can take up to 15 minutes to show on a site would be very helpful as well.
Not sure what you're talking about with default images and caching systems, I didn't give the url of my site. That url is just a site that sells an Adbrite clone, easy to find with Google. I decided not to do it in Drupal in the end, Drupal seems too 'heavy'. I'm now partway through doing a new network entirely hand-coded from scratch and it is looking good so far but by no means ready for release, so I'm keeping it under my hat for now.