Comments on: Comparing Ad Servers – Any Suggestions?

By: Cuson

Cuson — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:53:36 +0000

I can’t really understand why you don’t take openads/openx.org. If you face problem with the hosted service just go ahead and host it on your own. what else could you wish for as a free and professional service?

Above all forget about the jerks advertising here their own admanager system – its just pathetic guys. openx is free, has a huge userbase and will continue to the future – what else you want?

By: alex

alex — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:36:42 +0000

hi all,

@steven : have you finalised your analysis and made the decision yet ? My company is specialised in the analysis, implementation and operations for digital advertising.
There is clearly a distinction to be made between (nearly) free solutions and corporate solutions, but that is mainly influenced by the publisher’s requirements and/or businessmodel.
If any of you would like some more information in detail, just send me a mail and I’ll be happy to help you further,

kind regards,

Alex

By: Jaap de Heer

Jaap de Heer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:19:38 +0000

Hi folks,

If you’re looking for an alternative, take a look at our ad server BittAds: http://www.bittads.com
It’s completely free up to 25 million views/month, no strings attached, and you can set up an account in a few minutes.

cheers,
Jaap de Heer
Streamtech / BittAds

By: jakub

jakub — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:54:15 +0000

Hi,

What would you recommend for quite smaller ad agency, serving about 2-3m impressions a month? I’m really struggling to source some solutions. Thanks for help.

By: Arjen

Arjen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:56:58 +0000

I used OpenX for several years and with great pleasure… But since several months we – and many other publishers – are experiencing some severe problems. The OpenX crews is aware of these problems but they leave them mostly unanswered in their own support forum.

Our problem is we are about to start an adnetwork, we would love to continue working with OpenX but is feels like implementing a time-bomb in our businessmodel since the bugs remain and remain.

Right now i’m doing research on what solution to use, Google solution is to small for us, right now i’m looking at Adbutler.

Wonder if anyone could recommend a server-solution

By: bd

bd — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:52:53 +0000

hey frndz ,
i know a company that provides almost end to end solutions for digital adsales. it is Uniken Systems.
they have a product AdApt which takes care of contract management,campaign management, revenue recognition, invoice processing and management. As far as I know the product can integrate with both OpenX and Real Media and it is very cheap as well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:28:13 +0000

DP,

I took your advice, and took a look at the Open Ad Stream site.

Wow. It didn’t tell me anything I needed to know – no features, no screenshot, no price, nothing.

“So much for that!”, I thought.

If they’re not going to put the information I would need to recommend this to a client in a an easy to find place, displayed in an easy to read manner…

… there’s not a chance I’ll even consider investigating any further.

By: DP

DP — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:07:55 +0000

One adserver that wasn’t mentioned in this thread is OpenAdStream. I would rate it along the caliber of DFP in terms of top tier Hosted solutions.

http://www.247realmedia.com/EN-US/us/open-ad-stream.html

By: rich t

rich t — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:47:44 +0000

i can tell you google ad manager is very buggy. i am not confident with it and the support sucks. total disappointment so i now go back to using my current openads. this is the first disappointing google product i have workded with.

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:28:27 +0000

Hi All,
E-consultancy has published this document “Ad Serving Solutions – A Buyer’s Guide” – January 2006.

Also, I work for a young innovative high-tech company in the adserving sector. Maybe, you can be interested in our solution [ad.agio]. Two leading publishers in the Italian market have been using [ad.agio] for several years. They have switched from DART by Doubleclick and Helios by Adtech to [ad.agio]. I will be happy to email you some more information (info@neodatagroup.com).
Ciao
Sara

By: Arun Rajan

Arun Rajan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:31 +0000

Hi Pete – same question as the one I posted to Steven since you were in the process as well…

regards,
arun

By: Arun Rajan

Arun Rajan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:38:03 +0000

Hello Steven –

Which ad server did you eventually choose to use? I’m looking for an ad server that is fairly open i.e. to allow customization/extensions that I want to build in… – would appreciate any suggestions..

Arun

By: Son Nguyen

Son Nguyen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:16:22 +0000

Hello,

Since you’re looking for suggestions for an ad server. AdSpeed is an independent ad server and ad manager. You enter your ads and their targeting criteria into our system. We serve ads, track impressions, clicks, revenue, conversions and report ad statistics in real-time. You can easily manage everything about your ad inventory through our user-friendly interface. AdSpeed combines the latest ad serving technologies with advanced web analytics to maximize your advertising revenue.

You can try the demo for yourself here:
http://www.adspeed.com/

Son Nguyen
AdSpeed

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:42:44 +0000

Hey Steven,

Let me know if you already went with a solution because I’m going through this process now. I’m looking to possibly move away from GAM to DFP, Atlas or another solution. I’m near the end of my comparison and would love to know where you netted out.

Thanks

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By: Arlen Coupland

Arlen Coupland — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:48:43 +0000

Hi Steven, thanks for taking the time to give your feedback on OpenX and a useful roundup of options and your experiences – quite useful for people!

Some will love the complete control and ability-to-customize which a self-hosted solution provides. Some will not. And for this we have our Hosted version of OpenX
http://www.openx.org/hosted

Cheers,
Arlen Coupland – OpenX

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:25:59 +0000

@Cornelia With regards to Atlas, I wasnt just leaving a message at reception. I was contact the specific person in control of the Publisher Suite itself. Yet still no response. I would understand about getting no response if I was just talking to reception.

Zedo, has since sent me an email direct and there was a big miscommunication between their company and ours. Since that time I now understand that they are quite afforable. They might even now be the company for my network!

By: Cornelia

Cornelia — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:24:45 +0000

it is totally new to me that Zedo is expensive…an in terms of contacting Microsoft: I suppose leaving a voicemail at reception in a large company that offers a huge product suite for both publishers and advertisers without giving much information of what you are looking for will very unlikely get you a response…try contacting the right department via email

By: Cornelia

Cornelia — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:22:19 +0000

it is totally new to me that Zedo is expensive…an in terms of contacting Microsoft: I suppose leaving a voicemail at reception in a large company without giving much information of what you are looking for will very unlikely get you a response…