Multi-domain ad-serving software?

DFP is free only for small businesses. There's an upper cap on the number of impressions you can serve. It is free if you serve less than 90 million monthly ad impressions, which I am most certainly not going to reach anytime soon... ;)
 
sadikb said:
DFP is free only for small businesses. There's an upper cap on the number of impressions you can serve. It is free if you serve less than 90 million monthly ad impressions, which I am most certainly not going to reach anytime soon... ;)
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Where did you find this info? I don't remember seeing this number in their terms.

Oh, I just looked at their FAQ, the 90 million limit is in there... Interesting. Why is it not in the terms you have to accept when signing up? :-o
 
Ati said:
Where did you find this info? I don't remember seeing this number in their terms.

Oh, I just looked at their FAQ, the 90 million limit is in there... Interesting. Why is it not in the terms you have to accept when signing up? :-o
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Well, I wouldn't worry about the 90 million cap. If I can serve that many ad impressions i would be making several millions monthly and not worry about paying DFP! ;)
 
sadikb said:
Well, I wouldn't worry about the 90 million cap. If I can serve that many ad impressions i would be making several millions monthly and not worry about paying DFP! ;)
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True, especially since the 90 million does not include adsense, but I find it strange that they do not mention it in their terms, only in the faq.
 
OK, i'm starting to play around this DFP. I admit it has a lot of new terms to learn and see how their system works but I like the idea of removing OpenX from my server and have Google server handle all of this ads serving.
 
The developer that was running my server said that OpenX was a pain in the ass, he was running it on it's own domain on the VPS we were using, today we took it down after moving servers and at this time I am looking at Google double click, that seems to be the way forward.
 
WIth the way OpenX pushing very hard for everyone to use their hosted solution and lack of update on the open source version, I do not want to stay with them for long. It's hard to get answer to a problem with Openx

DFP looks like an idea solution. I just don't know how adding extra javascript from them will slow my site down.

I'm trying to catch up with DFP tutorial now
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-dfp-tutorial/14099/
 
Anyone got DFP running on their site can share if there is noticeable slowness dues to additional Google javascript serving the ads?
 
OpenX when I had run it in the past was a resource hog and loaded down the server, it may have changed because that was a couple years ago.
 
I started working with DFP in the last few days and so far so good. There are still a lot of advanced settings that i haven't figured out yet but I got the banners to display where I want them.
DFP takes some time to take effect any changes you make (anywhere from 15-30 minutes) but it shouldn't be something I'm concerned with since we won't be changing much once we know how this thing works.

Here is the guide i used
http://gam.ingraye.com/basic/
 
The thing is: I use Google for search, I earn money from Google from advertising, I use Google for some other things - I get a bad feeling if I become dependent on Google for another thing in my life. I don't want the Microsoft syndrome: the same company X in PCs, cars, washing machines, my head....
 
Andy.N said:
Anyone got DFP running on their site can share if there is noticeable slowness dues to additional Google javascript serving the ads?
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Until recently I was using OpenX. What an incredibly sad story that company is, having muxed up a once great product to the point where support is nonexistent and the bugs make it now not usable for production. I didn't want to switch to DFP, especially since accomplishing some simple things is so much more difficult than openx (e.g. URL-based rules.) Unfortunately 2.8.7 caused all sorts of problems, nobody at OpenX is around to answer or fix them and I ditched it.

DFP has its share of problems but I didn't see any significant slowness using DFP. The javascript is relatively small and, in some instances, it's possible to put some of it below the head section (didn't work for me.)
 
I'm just revisiting DoubleClick as I may begin using it on GeeksChat and wondered if you guys are still using DfP and if so, how are you getting on with it?

Cheers,
Shaun :D
 
I have been using it since last year and it working for us. Their flash-based creatives are a bit nitpicky. You have to use Flash 10.2 max, AS2 and make sure to get clickTAG working.
 
I'm assuming I can use DfP to deliver my Adsense ads - so, to begin with, carry on as normal - but then as and when I get advertisers on board I can mix their ads in with a higher priority?
 
GeeksChat said:
I'm assuming I can use DfP to deliver my Adsense ads - so, to begin with, carry on as normal - but then as and when I get advertisers on board I can mix their ads in with a higher priority?
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Yep. I think you actually set up adsense as your ad network backup. So if you add a client to display ads for, and set up their rotation for at most 1 ad per page, adsense can/will fill all your other ad locations. There are a lot of different possibilities, it will just be something that you have to play with.

Russ
 
Any cost to using DFP? (and I mean from a total cost of ownership perspective, not just utilizing their services, such as privacy issues)
 
Of course I'm assuming I can point clients at DFP and they can buy their ads directly, with payments added onto my Adsense commissions?

I'm imagining this will save me the hassle of setting up software and processing payments myself from my own site/server?
 

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