Comments on: Openads Opensource project Raises $5 million

By: spenser

spenser — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:34:19 +0000

Always nice to see a project grow up!

By: rmhlllogsr

rmhlllogsr — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:29:20 +0000

Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! iggkijbgul

By: Technology Untangled » Blog Archive » Openads to focus on much needed features with $5 million investment

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:56:09 +0000

[...] is a very popular ad server with 25,000 publishers on 100,000 sites in 140 different countries and in 20 languages. Openads has approximately 30 ad [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:25:35 +0000

@Gary, read openads answer on http://blog.ope...re-my-features/

Fairly interesting
That should answer your point.

By: Henk

Henk — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:29:46 +0000

Xin, you can run it on some other php server. Ads are put on your ruby site via javascript anyway.

Many big news sites in Estonia have their ads in adsnew/openads. Personally I didn’t like it at all. The user interface is something I call “programmer-made”. Inserting dates by basically writing out sql sentences using drop-down menus is not my idea of a great user-experience

By: Xin

Xin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:27:07 +0000

Am I right to think this would only work with websites written in PHP?

I develop most of my sites using Ruby on Rails. Does anyone know of a Ruby alternative?

By: Hornswaggled

Hornswaggled — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:09:03 +0000

This is going on my ToDo list as well. I think Gary brings up a good point though. If they have not been implementing things that the community wants because of future plans to monetize things they need to be upfront about that. I would be more than pissed if I dedicate any time to an OS community and then they pull the rug out and start charging for things.

By: Openads capta 5 millones de dólares de capital riesgo - Carrero Bitácora de los Hermanos Carrero, David Carrero Fernández-Baillo y Jaime Carrero Fernández-Baillo.

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:41:10 +0000

[...] Oficial Openads vía: TechCrunch y blog [...]

By: Carrero

Carrero — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:40:00 +0000

http://www.tech...ises-5-million/...

Openads es uno de los desarrollo de código libre más populares de los últimos 7 años, no en vano es el servidor de banners o publicidad OpenSource utilizado por miles de sitios web para gestionar sus campañas de publicidad online, nosotros mismo l…

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:28:34 +0000

I’ve shared it already with my friends. They are hardly waiting for more:)

By: CVOS Netpaths

CVOS Netpaths — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:28:03 +0000

This is fantastic news. If this deal produces a product with the quality of sugarcrm.com everyone will win.

By: Blog.Lejer.Ro - Bloggers Heaven

Blog.Lejer.Ro - Bloggers Heaven — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:23:42 +0000

Openads Opensource project inject $5 million…

One of the best ads servers that are on the market, and still free, got a load of cash for enhancements. That ammount means a lot: $5 Millions.

Openads, the developer of a popular seven year old opensource ad server, have spun out of London based ad n…

By: Jan-Joost Rueb

Jan-Joost Rueb — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:43:15 +0000

Congrats to Scott & his team, well done, well deserved.

We have been using PHPADS / Openads since the beginning and have been able to scale it up to over 1.5B impressions a month.

JJ @ eBuddy

By: Josh P

Josh P — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:37:54 +0000

The phpAdsNew/Openads platform has always been way too bulky and complicated for the majority of publishers.

That’s why we’re building http://adregate.com

By: -gary

-gary — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:04:43 +0000

Well, then that explains why they haven’t released all the features that users have been begging for over the years like self-signup and PayPal integration. I’m guessing we’ll all have to pay for those features instead of getting them in the OS package. If so, I do hope they crash and burn as all of the support users have given them over the years was to make a better product for all, not to feed ideas for their own startup.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:36:30 +0000

- it does look good / someday I hope to get on FM –

– seems it a freakin huge payday

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:33:30 +0000

I’ve yet to actually use OpenAds – but it is on the todo list.

By: Revsense

Revsense — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:48:42 +0000

Not many people know that small ad servers like these are used by webmasters. Not everyone wants to run google ads. We’ve been publishing our own software for years now too http://www.revsense.com

Its been used by quite a lot of webmasters and provided a decent living to us while doing so Webmasters always want another option of selling the inventory on their sites and sometimes Google/Yahoo/etc can’t really provide it.

By: John Dalton

John Dalton — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:51:49 +0000

phpAdsNew is one of the quiet wonders of the open source world – I’m amazed it doesn’t get more attention. It’s solid as a rock, with loads of polish and great documentation. My involvement with it has been as the ad server used on a decent sized live music community site based in Australia, and it’s served us well there for the past several years.

We’re looking forward to taking advantage of all the work going into the new OpenAds software, and as far as I’m concerned this announcement is just icing on the cake!

By: Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:43:41 +0000

The Muso: there will always be a place for installed ad serving technology, rather than running through a third-party service provider like Google. I think the two can co-exist well.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:32:09 +0000

Hadn’t seen phpadsnew/Openads before. It looks a clever platform, with a very clear and powerful admin system.

By: Webmaster Forums

Webmaster Forums — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:07:28 +0000

Openads expansion…

The latest among the open source ad server has just raised $5 million in capital for the business, and put the London based network Unanimis the proper financing to establish the business.

http://s……

By: The Muso

The Muso — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:50:26 +0000

And when Google opens up the Doubleclick adserving platforms for free use? What then?

By: Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:16:01 +0000

Best of luck to them. I love it when other companies try and make a go of it with an open source business model. We’re at it too, and I know there are others beyond the examples given above; this is the next logical step beyond the actual development methodology. Best of luck to everyone involved.

By: Webmeba

Webmeba — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:48:00 +0000

I remember phpadsnew, although I never really liked it (a friend of mine used it). I’d love to experiment with Openads though.