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hi dani,

awsome site!

what ad / banner managing software are you using for this site?

can your advertisers log in and upload their own banners etc or do you do it manually for them?

i noticed you use adsense and banners from large corporations. do you feel this provide better click through rates and revenue than advertising smaller companies?

thanks,

007

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A short, practical add-on to the thread: several posts raised the same two themes — advertiser self‑service and scale — so here are concrete things to check and a few troubleshooting moves that actually save time.

When comparing packages or hosted vs self‑hosted, evaluate these capabilities: true per‑zone or per‑campaign targeting (so you can map site categories to zones), async logging or buffered writes (to avoid DB spikes), reliable reporting exports (CSV/SQL), frequency capping and fallback creatives, and strong upload controls (MIME/type checks, dimension limits, malware scanning, moderation queue). As and hinted, “advertiser upload” is useful only if you lock down validation and moderation — otherwise it becomes support overhead.

If statistics look wrong, do these checks in order: 1) compare ad server impression logs with raw web server access logs for the same creative filenames; 2) check CDNs, proxy caches, or browser caching that may serve images without touching the ad script; 3) look for timezone misalignment or aggregation windows; 4) confirm ad blockers or strict privacy settings are not suppressing the counting beacon. Quick SQL sanity check (replace IDs/dates as needed):

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM impressions
WHERE banner_id = 123
  AND timestamp >= 'YYYY-MM-DD' AND timestamp <  'YYYY-MM-DD';

Tradeoffs: hosted services cut ops work but require trust in their reporting and access to raw logs; self‑host gives control but requires capacity planning, backups, and security processes. If an ad manager lacks parameterized targeting (a point raised by ), the simplest reliable approach is to pick zone IDs per category at the application level and serve the matching tag — cleaner and faster than trying to retrofit URL parameter parsing into the ad server itself.

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what ad / banner managing software are you using for this site?

phpadsnew

can your advertisers log in and upload their own banners etc or do you do it manually for them?

Yes

i noticed you use adsense and banners from large corporations. do you feel this provide better click through rates and revenue than advertising smaller companies?

That i'll leave for dani to answer :)

Good Luck! :)

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hey pulse, thanks for the quick reply.

you do it manually for them????

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hey pulse, thanks for the quick reply.

you do it manually for them????

You have an option in phpAdsNew to either allow advertisers to upload their own ads or you can also do it manually :)

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Ahhh thanks - that's a nice feature.

I did take phpadsnew for a demo drive and liked it. My only issue is that users in their forum are saying that the development and assistant has stalled. And that the statistics are not counting correctly. Read more:

I also found this ad manager that some people might be interested in
http://phpwebscripts.com/admanagerpro/
http://www.adcycle.com/

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Actually, DaniWeb stopped using phpAdsNew last month. We now use a robust, professional third party ad server called AdJuggler (www.adjuggler.com). I think the clickthru rate depends mostly on how targeted the ads are ;)

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Adjuggler looks nice.


Mentions starting at $50 per month if they host it.


Mentions $99 set up and $99 per month if they hosted.

Do you have happened to know how much the license so we can run it on our own server is? Annually or eternal?

007

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dani and pulse,

did you guys find encountered any problems with phpAdsNew that made you stop using it?

or did you find any weakneses?

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dani and pulse,

did you guys find encountered any problems with phpAdsNew that made you stop using it?

or did you find any weakneses?

i still use it on my sites and am loving it! 2.0.2 is out ang a bug fix version 2.0.3 will be also in a few days!

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I found it a good solution at first. However, with the amount of traffic DaniWeb now gets, I just don't find it as robust a solution as is available nowadays. It was a server hog and simply not as feature-rich as I would have liked.

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007

I work for Thruport Technologies, the producers of AdJuggler and I would be more than happy to provide you with any information you might need on AdJuggler.

Let me know what I can do.

Cheers

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"can your advertisers log in and upload their own banners etc or do you do it manually for them?"

Yes

what version of phpadsnew did you use? the version i have (2.0.4-pr2) does not allow advertisers to upload their banners. actually some code that might allow it is commented "for now because of security reasons", but uncommenting doesnt help, there are probably other issues which i cant resolve.

please reply to my <email snipped> if you can. thanks

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Ok Has anyone had any experience with AdMan - ? It seems to have some nice features and is not too expensive at $99/domain. I am not sure which is better between phpmyadsnew and this one but I tend to prefer retail software to open source when I am new to something simply for support issues.

What I am looking to do is build a niche job board site which will be free to use and generate revenue from ads (well that is the plan anyway). I want to be able to have ads targeted at the job categories so they are more relevant. For now, until I get more proficient with php/mysql I am going to be doing the processing of which ads to display on the job board side using probably an include with an associative array of category => invocation code pairs and simply passing the cat id to determine which banner to show. I know that AdMan does not support taking in a parameter and I am wondering if some of the other solutions do.

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