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  2. Priorities and contract vs Remnant

    in Using Revive Adserver

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    I understand the intricacies and difficulties of delivering. However, consistently wasting 8% of impressions (I can understand some small percentage due to the issues you point out, but not this) on Remnant campaigns does not make sense when there is no capping on any kind, most campaigns are running behind and delivery rules only apply to some 5% of my contracted impressions.

    Even with a setting of 99% over-delivery I could see a zone with 6 banners with 0% priority belonging to 6 different campaigns lagging behind (some of them quite significantly). For this specific zone, the banners had no delivery rules.

    Right now Remnant campaigns have 95% of the priorities in one specific zone. And one banner from an uncapped advertiser, uncapped campaign, and uncapped banner with no rules shows only 2% priority. For a 12-month campaign that is running 30% behind after 1 month. All campaigns have the same weight (5). And I see no wild over delivery for that campaign today in the stats that would justify a low priority right now. Also a another banner with a similar situation and 44% underdelivery. And that's with a 99% over-delivery setting. I also see some banners with 0% priority that belong to campaigns that are on schedule or over-delivering, which makes sense, but not the other two.

  4. Priorities and contract vs Remnant

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    Ok, forget about the over-delivery issue, which is making the problem less obvious, and let's go back to the situation of 2 months ago when the over delivery setting was 0%.

    With no capping on campaign or banner level, and just some country delivery rules or some banners, I'm wasting 20k out of 300k monthly impressions on Remnant campaigns when most campaigns are lagging behind. I have some 15 campaigns and some 100 banners.

  5. Priorities and contract vs Remnant

    in Using Revive Adserver

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    2 hours ago, andrewatfornax said:

    I assume that you mean that you need to keep checking to ensure that a specific Contract campaign does not under-deliver?

    If you mean that your Contract campaigns are over-delivering (apart from not making any sense based on your first sentence), then you need to turn down the over-delivery setting, because that will not be helping!

    Hi Andrew:

    Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post.

    No, I meant over-delivering. Since I need the 99% over-delivery setting to minimize impressions wasted on Remnant campaigns. some campaigns overdeliver (I do not really undertand why, really, if anything, when there are more than enough impressions for everyone, they should all over-deliver in a similar way assuming they are all uncapped). Obviously if I do not have enough impressions for fulfill my Contract impressions that would be my problem.

    i had read all the documentation before, and use this forum as a last resort. It was there that I found the over-delivery setting, which minimizes my problem at the expense of creating over-delivery issues on some campaigns.

    To maximize customers' CTR, I always use an amount of banners that will roughly provide the needed impressions to meet contracted campaigns. Right now I'm lagging some 20% of a month's impressions behind but now have the number of impressions to compensate (and wasting a significant amount impressions -I'm talking 20k out of 300k within one month- on remnant campaign banner impressions does not help me get back in line, and neither does having some campaigns over-deliver to try and minimize the first issue).

     

    2 hours ago, andrewatfornax said:

    I think that this may actually be your problem - you are describing a zone that has very little traffic, but you have 6 different Contract campaigns linked to the zone, and they are all competing for traffic!

    I do not follow your reasoning. If there are several campaigns that are lagging behind assigned to an area with little traffic, whatever little traffic there is it should be spread across them. I do not see why there should be more Remnant impressions because of this.

    There is no capping at the campaign or banner level (some banners in other campaigns do have some country targeting), and there is another zone selected in the chain settings of the problem zone.

     

     

    2 hours ago, andrewatfornax said:

    If the zone traffic varies wildly, then sometimes, it may not make an accurate estimate of inventory for any given hour, and may display a Remnant banner, because it is expecting there to be many more impression occurring that actually happen. However, that forecast should then be updated in the next hour, and the situation should improve. 

     

    The zon'e traffic varies in a similar way to the rest of my zones. I could understand banners in Campaigns that are on target showing 0% probability sometimes, but I do not see how that should be possible with campaigns that are running 25% or more behind as per the Campaign Monitor plugin.

  6. Priorities and contract vs Remnant

    in Using Revive Adserver

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    I'm confused as to why my system is showing so many Remnant impressions even though most of the campaigns are lagging behind and use no capping or limitations of any kind on both the campaings or the banners. I have set an over-delivery of 99% in the Maintenance settings to try and minimize the problem, but I need to keep checking stats daily to ensure a specific campaign does not overdeliver.

    Maintenance runs fine every hour.

    In a zone that carries little traffic I just saw a remnant ad (and saw it also 1 hour later) and checked the zone's priorities. There 6 contract campaign banners that all but one belong to campaigns that are lagging behind, yet each of the banners' priorities is set to 100%, which the only Remnant campaign banner for that zone has 100%. This zone runs fine (i.e., shows contract campaign banners) in other days and times.
     

  7. SLL will not serve Javascript or iframe ads, only Asynchronous JS

    in Managing Revive Adserver

    Posted

    If using "Delivery File Names", the files need to be redirected somehow (unless one wants to manually change file names every time one updates Revive), though I guess I could have used a symlink redirect that did not specifically redirect to an "http" URL. Way back then, though, I did not imagine Google will force us to go SSL

    Ideally, revive could write the symlink rewrites to an .htaccess files

  8. SLL will not serve Javascript or iframe ads, only Asynchronous JS

    in Managing Revive Adserver

    Posted

    On 9/28/2018 at 12:16 PM, malmazan said:
    On 11/6/2018 at 7:25 AM, andrewatfornax said:

    I'm pretty sure that AJS, regular JS and iFrame all work just fine with HTTP and HTTPS.

    Apart from saying it's not working (and one comment about logging via HTTP when the initial call was via HTTPS), there's really not any details in the information above - no examples we can see, no screenshots, no error messages....

    Not much I can do to help at this stage as a result!

    However, maybe try: https://documentation.revive-adserver.com/display/DOCS/Banners+Not+Delivering+over+SSL ?

    I finally fixed my ads being served unsecurely. I used .htaccess redirects for the altervative "Delivery File Names" and they were redirecting to http pages. That also seems to have fixed the javascript banners not being served at all.

     

  15. Current state of succesful ad blocking strategies

    in Managing Revive Adserver

    Posted

    Hi all:

    Everything I do for avoiding adblockers does not seem to work.

    Using iframe or asynchronous invocation codes does not work, at least not with Adguard for Firefox.

    I also tried creating a subdomain so as to avoid getting tracked due to the "www/delivery" bit, but that did not help either.

    I also modified file names.

    Has anybody achieved any success with current ad blockers?

  18. Every so often ads are skipped. What is going on?

    in Using Revive Adserver

    Posted · Edited by malmazan

    Hi:

    Too often I see ads not showing (maybe one in 10 times), and there are no errors in the log file.

    We show about 400k impressions/month with about 15 contract campaigns, mostly totally uncapped, except for some country geotargeting. There is also a remnant campaign with plenty of ads.

    Pages typically consist of one ad from a zone and two ads from another zone, all using Javascript invocation tags. Typically if an ad does not show it is the latest in the HTML, but sometimes the latest two are not shown. The first one, which belongs to a different zone, seems to be always show. Both zones have plenty of uncapped ads and their zone probabilities look fine and add to 100% (remnants have 0.61% priority).

    Any ideas?

  22. Puzzling delivery and priorities

    in Using Revive Adserver

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    17 minutes ago, andrewatfornax said:

    Try for longer than 8 hours! Revive's model is to use information about past days to forecast inventory, so if it's a brand new install, 8 hours isn't enough. 

    Let it run for a few weeks, and see how things go. :-)

    I've tried several days. Although I can understand it can take days for an accurate prediction, I definitely cannot understand even for a very ballpark estimation.

    Advertisers do not have weeks.

    I started from stratch with revive v4 and just a zone, two campaigns (one contract and one remnant), and the one contract banner has a priority of 0.5% percent without any impressions yet.

  23. Revive 3.2.5 and PHP 5.4.45

    in Managing Revive Adserver

    Posted · Edited by malmazan

    Ideally yes, but I depend on other software that does not run on 5.5

    3 hours ago, malmazan said:

    Hi:

    I upped my PHP version from 5.3 to 5.4.45 and now my Revive 3.2.5 admin page is not working ( Fatal error: Call to undefined method MDB2_Error::setFetchMode() in /home/[PATH]/lib/pear/DB/QueryTool/Query.php on line 299 ).

    Can I make it work with PHP 5.4?

    Thanks in advance

    I believe all of those modules are listed in the PHP report

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