Finding an Ad Management System?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 12, 2002 @09:34PM from the putting-the-bacon-on-the-table dept.

aagha asks: "I'm working for a very small, three-person startup in Athens, Greece (with a dwindling budget), trying to create the first real, full-featured tourism website for this country. While we have our home-grown Java-based Content Management System up and running and our site working fairly smoothly, we're having one heck of a time finding an ad management system to to work with our system. We have URL's which contain params to build our pages dynamically and we can't find a solution to work with our JSP's to serve ads targeted by category and or article. I know that I'm not the only person writing software for a JSP site (uhhh, or am I?). I'm curious to know what others have done to meet their advertisement serving needs."

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Re:OASIS by Yuan-Lung · 2002-11-13 04:09 · Score: 5, Informative

When I built the ad management system on our JSP community site, we were quiet pressed for time, so I just went for the simplest solution I could think of.

I threw the list of banners into a table, along with the chance of showing and statistics, then I insert into the pages a javascript that randomly pulls a banner according to that statistics each time a banner is displayed. I tracked the banner display counts as they are requested. For tracking the clicking, I just used a JSP page to forward the users after they click on the banner before sending them to the real URL.

I was able to implement and test this in a few days... Or is this not what you were looking for?