Flash ads server, tracking etc.

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by FlashVictim, Nov 1, 2005.

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    I want to offer Flash banners on my website, I'm part of the adsense program but I want to sell a few spots which can have a flash ad. The customer should pay per 1000 impressions.

    Designing flash isn't the problem, I'm an expert on that but I'm looking for a way to rotate and track these ads. E.g. somebody pays for 10.000 impressions and on impression 10.001 the ad doesn't show up, I can see how many times it has been showed and so on... also rotation should be enabled. Is this possible and which program should I use? Or: would you recommend a partner for this?
     
    FlashVictim, Nov 1, 2005 IP
  2. dave487

    dave487 Peon

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    I would think you should use a third pary company to serve the ads on your site.

    It will give you access to a much wider range of advertisers and avoid the hassle of coding the tracking software yourself.
     
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    I looked into those but I guess I'm just too small at this stage... do you know a good one?
     
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    Ok I found one which offered itself to me :), hooray! Now let's hope they will get me any good ads...
     
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    brian394 Well-Known Member

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    This can easily be done using PHP and MySQL. You simply create a MySQL database with all your banners (each record in the database would contain information about a different banner), and you set up fields for banner id, banner name, banner code, number of times viewed, etc. Then you write some PHP code to query this database everytime a page is viewed, and pull out a random banner to display. At the same time it's being displayed you increase it's "number of times viewed" column. If a banner's "number of times viewed" is greater than the "maximum number of times to show a banner" then that banner will not be shown, another banner will be shown in it's place. If you want, I can help you write the code for this, it's really not that difficult.

    In the meantime, here's a good tutorial on rotating banner ads with PHP...

    http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/banner.php
     
    brian394, Apr 10, 2006 IP