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OpenAds – $15.5M Funding Series B and Hosted Advertising Management

By Andy Beard | Published: January 17, 2008
Openads - the web's largest ad-space communityOpenAds, formerly phpAdsNew is an Open Source advertising management script, or at least it was. For a good overview I recommend Tims excellent introduction to OpenAds. But that has changed somewhat overnight OpenAds are adding a free hosted version of their sofware, though it is currently in closed beta. Even with the improvements they made with version 2.4, and certainly those changes were critical for this move to make it more resource efficient, they are going to need some hefty infrastructure in place to serve all the ad units for multiple sites. So that is one area the new series b funding by new investor Accel Partners will be used. The big questions are who they are going to decide to go up against, and how are they going to generate revenue?
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Advertising Management Solution – Openads 2.4 Released

By Andy Beard | Published: September 11, 2007

I have just received notification that OpenAds 2.4 has been release. This is a full public version, not a beta (does that make it Web 3.0 ? )

Primary new features include:-

  • Enterprise level delivery – Capability to serve billions of ads per month
  • Smoother campaign delivery and prioritisation
  • Easy integration with leading applications: Track Google and Yahoo! clicks
  • Enhanced targeting and campaign management
  • Better reporting capability

Full feature comparison list

OpenAds is a complete tracking solution and advertising rotation system, and best of all it is free.

Why Use OpenAds?

It allows you to manage your advertising from one central location, avoid banner blindness and serve different

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OpenAds Preview

By Andy Beard | Published: June 7, 2007

One of the best ways to get my attention is to link to me, or link to some of my content. Actually linking to my content and using a trackback is more likely to be seen than a blogroll link, because I actively check out trackbacks just in case something slips through Spam Karma which shouldn’t, or there is some interesting conversation to respond to.

Read more on OpenAds Preview…

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