Comments on: Google Opens Ad Manager To All; OpenX in Trouble?

By: Justin Chen

Justin Chen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Awesome. I’ve been waiting for a hosted ad manager like this. I’m sure the checkout integration to allow direct selling can’t be too far down the line.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yea – so far it works very, very well.

By: The Shrink

The Shrink — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry mate,

Ad Manager’s User Interface is crap. It has a very industrial feel to it.

OpenX gives you full control without BIG BROTHER getting to know how much you sell your ads and consequently how little to pay you in Adsense earnings.

Trafficspaces allows you design the look of your own ad manager and to sell to advertisers using a self-service interface.

Google Ad Manager is just a bit too basic for my liking, especially with OpenX and Trafficspaces doing the same thing without all the disadvantages.

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google Admanager is good tool for very small publishers, but the key problem is that it needs to have javascript inserted into the head of the websites, and cant be added into 3rd party ad servers. Unlike OpenX it can be added into other ad servers and works fine.

This is a huge problem with a site that gets decent traffic.

By: toemaz

toemaz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Because CN is running on Drupal, you might be interested in the admanager module I just released: http://drupal.org/project/google_admanager
Just an easy module to configure and add your ad slots to the regions or your Drupal theme.