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OpenX Ad Server: Beginner's Guide

By : Murat Yilmaz
Book Image

OpenX Ad Server: Beginner's Guide

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>OpenX is the world's leading independent ad server and it provides you with the simple tools you need to make money from advertising. Although OpenX is a fast, robust ad serving solution to power all of your digital advertising, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build an advertising system that meets your needs perfectly.<br /><br />This practical guide gives you a hands-on experience on using OpenX Ad Server, helping you develop feature-rich and professional advertising solutions for web sites with world-class ad serving functionality. The book explores the powers of OpenX Ad Server and provides you with impressive ad server solutions.<br /><br />OpenX Ad Server Beginner's Guide will help you gain control over all the advertising needs of your blogs and web sites on a centralized ad-serving platform, for much easier management than traditional with methods. You will be able to run your own ads and sell your ad space to advertisers at the same time. You will learn how to serve ads according to origin of the visitors using GeoTargeting features. Combined with OpenX Channels, you will maximize your online revenue with relevant ads. This book also tells you how you can integrate other popular Ad networks like Google AdSense, Amazon and so on. Using OpenX for multiple accounts, tracking the success of ad campaigns using statistics, and reports are also discussed in detail.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
OpenX Ad Server: Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Understanding campaign priorities


Since multiple campaigns run at the same time on a typical OpenX Ad Server implementation, it is essential to understand how often they will be delivered. The OpenX system uses Campaign Weight and Priority Level naming to evaluate the banner impressions percentage of a campaign.

If there are Contract (Exclusive) campaigns for certain website zones, the others are neglected. If there are Contract campaigns, Remnant campaigns will not be delivered.

Each campaign type is prioritized only in its group. While Contract type gets Priority Level naming, Contract (Exclusive) and Remnant campaigns get Campaign Weight naming as a term for prioritization in its own group.

The following sample chart shows how OpenX basically decides which campaign to give priority, thus a percentage of total inventory impressions. Please, note that we assume all campaigns target the same zone.

The last three campaigns will not be served because of the running Contract (Exlusive) campaigns...