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Openads (previously known as
Developer(s) | Openads |
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Stable release | 2.0.11
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Preview release | 2.3.31-pr2
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Open Source GPL | |
Website | http://www.openads.org |
History
Openads is a combination of 3 Open Source projects:
PhpAdsNew
In 1998 Tobias Ratschiller created phpMyAdmin, a PHP tool to administer MySQL databases. Afterwards, Tobias launched more projects, like phpIRC, phpChat, phpPolls and phpAds. After a year and four releases, Tobias' development of phpAds slowed due to a lack of time to focus on the project.
Meanwhile, the community of phpAds users were still requesting new features and modifying the code themselves. Wim Godden decided to take lead of the phpAds project and hence
Wim worked on adding new features and fixing the remaining issues. Between 2000 and 2001, phpAds 1.4 grew into phpAdsNew 1.5 and kept evolving into phpAdsNew 1.8. A number of other developers like Phil Hord and Niels Leenheer joined the project and added their own new features. After the release of phpAdsNew 1.9 the developers really felt the project needed refactoring in order to become a mature ad server.
Niels led the development of phpAdsNew 2, which featured a revised graphical interface and large number of new features. Matteo Beccati created phpPgAds, a PostgreSQL port of phpAdsNew, and afterwards joined the phpAdsNew project. Stefan Morgenroth contributed his own continuation of the phpAds project, which he called phpAdsPlus. A number of features found in phpAdsPlus, such as Flash support, were quickly marged into phpAdsNew 2.
MaxMediaManager
In December of 2003, Scott Switzer created a branch of the phpAdsNew project called MaxMediaManager. The goal of MaxMediaManager was to create a more scalable version of phpAdsNew with support for
MaxMediaManager also added the ability for conversion tracking and separate Advertising agency logins. Conversion tracking is the ability to identify which ads lead to a sale.
Openads
In November of 2006, phpAdsNew and MaxMediaManager decided to join their community efforts together under one name: Openads. phpAdsNew became Openads 2.0 while MaxMediaManager became Openads 2.3. phpPgAds is known as Openasd 2.0-pgsql.
At this time, Openads 2.0 is considered the stable release of Openads, while Openads 2.3 is considered to be in the Alpha
Features
Openads 2.0
- Serve and track multiple types of banners (text ads, pop-ups, images, flash files, and more)
- Automatically convert Flash banners and Google AdSense code to allow for click tracking
- Target banners by keyword, IP address, domain, day of the week, time of day, language, browser, operating system, or location.
- Advertisers and Publishers can view statistics of banner performance
Openads 2.3
Openads 2.3 builds on Openads 2.0 and includes:
- Permits Agency-level management log-in
- Conversion tracking
- Support for click-tracking of 3rd-Party tags from specific networks like: AdSense, Atlas, Doubleclick, Eyeblaster, Tango Zebra, more..
- Ability to deliver up to 30 million ads per day, depending on server setup