Best Xenforo Ad Manager

[billybatz9]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering what the best ad manager for Xenforo was?


What I am wanting to do is.... get some ad zones up (that I can sell to people)

 

[Jeremy]

I don't use ads on my site, but I'm sure DPs is relatively simple (as is most of his products):
https://advertising.digitalpoint.com/

Its also pretty much guaranteed to remain and be updated.

 

[billybatz9]

King, are you a bot like Brogan?

 

[Renegade]

I don't use ads on my site, but I'm sure DPs is relatively simple (as is most of his products):
https://advertising.digitalpoint.com/

Its also pretty much guaranteed to remain and be updated.

Only problem with that add-on is that there is absolutely no option to get a branding free version.

 

[Slavik]

I was chatting with some people about this today, yes the XenForo ad templates work great, but needs a stronger backend and management system to go with it.

Having looked through all the current options available, I have a feeling I may need to sit down with a good reliable developer and explain what pbulishers want and need to produce one of good enough quality, but without overloading it with loads of bloat.

Any takers?

 

[HenrikHansen]

Xfrocks rotating ads is also quite powerful and can be used together with the widget framework (and in doing so makes it even more powerful)
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-rotating-ads.292/

What I am wanting to do is.... get some ad zones up (that I can sell to people)

With the widget framework used all hook postions in xenforo can be your ad zones

 

[billybatz9]

I am looking for something that I can...
1) Place ads on certain forum categories, but not show on the other categories.
2) Repeat for other categories...

Almost like the widget logic plugin for wordpress

 

[Jeremy]

Only problem with that add-on is that there is absolutely no option to get a branding free version.

like I said, I don't use advertisements so that personally doesn't bother me.

I am looking for something that I can...
1) Place ads on certain forum categories, but not show on the other categories.
2) Repeat for other categories...

Almost like the widget logic plugin for wordpress

This can be accomplished using conditionals in the ad templates I believe.

 

[billybatz9]

Im assuming conditionals are coding? I suck at that. Need to do some research on the forums to see if anyone has done it.

 

[Jeremy]

There are several resources on the community that can help after you've purchased. Paul has a solid resource describing them:
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/conditional-statements.1604/

 

[HenrikHansen]

Im assuming conditionals are coding? I suck at that. Need to do some research on the forums to see if anyone has done it.

The widget framework has conditionals for that. No coding or research needed at all. It has been done. No need to do it again.

 

[billybatz9]

Just curious.... Im trying to see if I can figure it out through the demo... Does the demo have ad spaces to play with and try the conditionals? I dont see anything ad related.
Thanks

 

[RobParker]

I was chatting with some people about this today, yes the XenForo ad templates work great, but needs a stronger backend and management system to go with it.

Having looked through all the current options available, I have a feeling I may need to sit down with a good reliable developer and explain what pbulishers want and need to produce one of good enough quality, but without overloading it with loads of bloat.

Any takers?

That would be excellent.

DP's ad positioning is great but it's only for one dynamic ad slot.

I had been using Robbo's addon but I'm not sure how supported that is anymore so for 1.2 I was planning to just hardcode the header/footer ads and use DP's addon for the dynamically placed ad.

 

[Andrej]

Just curious.... Im trying to see if I can figure it out through the demo... Does the demo have ad spaces to play with and try the conditionals? I dont see anything ad related.
Thanks

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/visual-list-of-ad-locations.1383/
In each red box there is a name of an ad template - simply use Admin CP search.

 

[billybatz9]

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/visual-list-of-ad-locations.1383/
In each red box there is a name of an ad template - simply use Admin CP search.

Thank you sir,
Okay last question... After conditionals are set... Is there a way to make the ads rotate to have a few ads? Instead of just having one picture as the ad.
Is that just more conditionals?

 

[Jeremy]

That is either more conditionals or some add-on coding, but yes, it is possible.

 

[Andrej]

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-rotating-ads.292/ - perhaps?

 

[intradox]

I was chatting with some people about this today, yes the XenForo ad templates work great, but needs a stronger backend and management system to go with it.

Having looked through all the current options available, I have a feeling I may need to sit down with a good reliable developer and explain what pbulishers want and need to produce one of good enough quality, but without overloading it with loads of bloat.

Any takers?

I wish there was one with a frontend interface to allow advertisers to bid/buy ad traffic.

 

[ENF]

I was chatting with some people about this today, yes the XenForo ad templates work great, but needs a stronger backend and management system to go with it.

Having looked through all the current options available, I have a feeling I may need to sit down with a good reliable developer and explain what pbulishers want and need to produce one of good enough quality, but without overloading it with loads of bloat.

Any takers?

We're planning on moving to a self-run publishing house upon converting a VB3 site to XF 1.2.x --- Developing a 3rd party Add-on for a advertising management suite is something that we are willing to throw serious money at. I've only put together a draft of functions that would be required, but it's a fairly large laundry list of functions that I'm sure will take some time to polish off into a working product.

I suck at making mock-ups, but I can certainly write a mean technical specification document.

 

[intradox]

We're planning on moving to a self-run publishing house upon converting a VB3 site to XF 1.2.x --- Developing a 3rd party Add-on for a advertising management suite is something that we are willing to throw serious money at. I've only put together a draft of functions that would be required, but it's a fairly large laundry list of functions that I'm sure will take some time to polish off into a working product.

I suck at making mock-ups, but I can certainly write a mean technical specification document.

might be interested in contributing! Depending on features and the developer.