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I am seeking a self-serv advertising service for my websites, but I have a few restrictions that seem to make what i'm looking for hard to find. Specifically, I want to place "advertise here" links on my pages and allow end-users to purchase advertising on that site, page, and location. These ads will not be part of a national network.

  • Supports multi-tenancy - That is, I have a number of domains using the same "web application" but with customized content per domain. When a customer wants to advertise on a given domain, then the ads will only appear on that domain and on that page of the domain (even though the page name may be the same across multiple domains).
  • Supports fixed ad prices, not just CPC. I need monthly and quarterly pricing regardless of performance.
  • Integrates with OpenX and other ad networks, so that if there is no self-serv on a given zone, it will use national advertising or direct advertising.

Shiny Ads has much of this, but i'm looking for alternatives, as their prices are a bit crazy (20%) and can only do PayPal.

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I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but I know Chitika is a pretty big add agency: chitika.com – Adam Thompson Jan 4 '11 at 20:30
@Adam Thompson - No, Chitika like adsense and DART and others are all about national advertising, and targeting ads to specific demographics, which is not what i'm looking for. I'm looking for self-serv where someone can say "I want to advertise on this page, in this spot, here's my cash" and they own that spot for as long as they pay for it. – Mystere Man Jan 5 '11 at 6:20
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ah, I got you. The only one that I personally know of that I know for a fact to be reliable is Buy Sell As: buysellads.com For a sample site that uses it the wonderful CSS Tricks site uses them: css-tricks.com – Adam Thompson Jan 5 '11 at 20:04

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BuySellAds.com

They will take a cut. its well worth it. You will never / ever / never / ever get the same advertising exposure for your "self serve" buy adverts as buysellads or any other network will provide. Even if you had NyTimes.com traffic you would have to have a dedicated sales team, checkout system, refund system, tracking system. Still then, if i have advertising budget Im going with an ad network which has some integretity in what it reports (a reputation to protect), versus a home spun ad network.

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Thank you, but I'm not looking for a ad clearing house. I don't need exposure. The point is that my sites are targeted at a local geographic audience, and we want local advertisers to advertise on local pages. We don't want national advertisers. – Mystere Man Nov 13 '12 at 16:27
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Take a look at OpenX. Its an ad server you can run yourself. – Frank Nov 20 '12 at 4:33
Perhaps you'd care to re-read my question, where I mention OpenX explicitly. – Mystere Man Nov 20 '12 at 12:39
Im sorry, I am blind – Frank Nov 23 '12 at 4:17

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