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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

Time for action - changing time zone preferences


  1. 1. Click on Timezone Preferences link under Preferences menu in My Account tab.

  1. 2. Select from available time zones and click on Save Changes button.

What just happened?

We have learned how to change Time Zone Preferences for an account. Note that different accounts can have different time zone settings. It indicates that all campaigns and banners under an account behave according to the selected time zone.

For example, let's suppose that the manager account defined GMT+3 as the time zone and he/she has a banner that works according to Time-Hour of day delivery limitation. If this delivery limitation is set to work 09:00 to 18:00, the OpenX system will use GMT+3 time zone setting as a reference.

If he/she wants to show this banner to visitors of another country, let's say A (let's say in GMT+1 time zone) in exactly the same hours in the local country time 09:00 to 18:00 then, it is necessary to define a delivery combination of Time and GeoTargeting...