The Ad module is a powerful advertising system for Drupal-powered websites. It supports the random display and tracking of graphical (banner), text and raw html ads. Ads can easily be displayed in themes, blocks, or embedded in site content. The module records comprehensive statistics about when and how often ads are viewed and clicked, including a plug-in module for generating graphical time-based reports. Ads can be assigned to multiple owners, each of which can be assigned their own set of permissions. Installation is simple by design. An API is provided allowing the development of additional functionality and integration with other Drupal modules.
The Ad module's project page can be found here: http://drupal.org/project/ad
Features:
- auto-generated ad blocks supporting a configurable number of ads
- automatically or manually embed ads into site content
- collection of comprehensive statistics allowing time-based reporting and
analysis - tracking of when and where ads are clicked, by which user and which IP
- advertisements can have multiple owners
- granular per-advertisement/per-owner permissions system
- activation/expiration scheduling based on time, clicks or views
- an ad_image plug-in for image (aka banner) ads
- an ad_text plug-in for simple text ads
- an ad_html plug-in for raw html ads
- an externally maintained ad_geoip plug-in provides support for
geotargeting ads - an ad_report plug-in for basic graphical reports
- an ad_notify plug-in for scheduling automatic email notifications
- an ad_remote plug-in for hosting ads on remote (non-Drupal) websites
- an administrative statistics overview page
- support for any number of configurable ad groups, utilizing Drupal's
taxonomy (category) subsystem - display ads based on node ids (nids) or taxonomy terms (categories)
- file-based caching for improved performance
- memcache-based caching for improved performance
- support for external caching methods
- MySQL and PostgreSQL support