andrewatfornax

The basic instructions given by AdSense are indeed to just take the code the generate for you and put it directly into the source code of your website.
 
However, an ad server such as Revive Adserver can also be used to do that. The steps you described are exactly right.
 
The ad server will "deliver" the AdSense tag to the browser. The browser will then execute the AdSense code and while doing so, it will be able to determine the domain of your actual site and then also crawl the page to determine what the content is. AdSense will then attempt to find a suitable and relevant advertisement and display it on your site.
 
Think of Revive Adserver as the vehicle transporting the AdSense code to your site and into the visitor's browser.
 
If it can be avoided, don't use the iframe invocation code for the zone, but rather use the javascript invocation code.

Single Page Call (which is what we normally call it) can do this.
 
You might enjoy reading this set of articles: http://www.reviveconsultant.com/articles/single-page-call-in-revive-adserver/
 
Your topic is addressed in the third one.

One way to achieve this would be the use of the TargetiX Retargeting plugin for Revive Adserver. More information can be found here:
http://www.adserverplugins.com/retargeting-plugin-for-revive-adserver/
 
Full disclosure: this plugin was developed by my company in close collaboration with fellow Revive Adserver team member Matteo Beccati. We've built in in 2009 on request of a customer and have been selling it as licensed software since that year.

Thanks so much for the feedback gabrielt! It's great to see your graph above showing that you've probably taken 30-60% off of your page load time by moving to the asynchronous tag type, which is obviously a super result, and very encouraging to see that in principle, it does what its supposed to do!
 
However, the drop off in banner impressions is of course, worrying.
 
What does pop into my head though, as an immediate thought is that after the move, the page load time has come down to around 5 seconds. However, that is, I assume, the load time for the page without ads, as the ads will then start to load up after the page is done. Assuming nothing else has changed performance-wise, I would guess this means that the ads are then taking something like another 5 to 10 seconds to complete loading up?
 
If that's the case, there's now a 5 to 10 second window for your site users to move on to another page, and interrupt the loading (and therefore impression logging) of the ads.
 
How does your average time on page look? Might this kind of behaviour explain the drop off in impressions?
 
I think this is worth looking into - although of course, we're totally open to the fact that perhaps it's something in the tag that isn't working as we expect re: logging impressions...

Noted, and now delivered in Revive Adserver 3.2.0.

Hi Richard,
 
Thank you for your comments, and I wish I had a magic wand I could help you out with!
 
Unfortunately, the core Revive Adserver team is aware that some people have problems with "plugins" they purchase for Revive Adserver from external parties; but at the same time, there are some very reputable, reliable plugin developers for the product as well.
 
The core team have discussed the idea that it would be good to have an official part of the Revive Adserver website where plugin developers can register to be listed, and against which users can rate them e.g. 1-5 stars, leave comments, etc. We do think this would be a good idea, but as with any open source project, the question is always - would spending the time setting that up be worth it, vs. other things we could be doing (e.g. the new Revive Adserver 3.2.0 release out today with asynchronous tags!).
 
As always, the core team is open to suggestions - please, dear community - if this is a major problem for the masses, let us know here, and we'll do our best to listen and prioritise based on your communal feedback.
 
Thanks!
 
Andrew 

And indeed, Revive Adserver 3.2.0 has now been released, which includes native asynchronous tag support.

Your existing code will continue to work before, during and after the upgrade to v3.2.0. After the upgrade, it's your choice if you want to switch to asynchronous tags immediately or perhaps gradually. We'll be adding more information and documentation about this in the coming days and weeks.

Question 1: yes, just look at the advertiser properties tab, check the appropriate box and enter the interval as 1 day(s).
 
Question 2: no.
 
Question 3: yes, just open the database, and query as much as you want.

Eliza0406 is not a member of the Revive Adserver team.
 
The Revive Adserver team is very happy to have other people participate in the community -- indeed, we actively encourage everyone to take part!
 
We are also happy if people want to offer paid services (consulting, support, development, plugins or anything else really) around Revive Adserver.
 
However, it should be clear that outside of those people on listed on the Revive Adserver website, anything you may decide to pay for is outside of the Revive Adserver team's control, and is not "official". That's not to say that it may not be any good - it may very well be. However, we will not comment on that kind of thing, and the fact that there is a user on the forums offering to sell you a Revive Adserver database ERD does not constitute an official policy from the team.
 
I hope that clarifies the matter! 

We took over the project a year ago. The plugin framework that exists is exactly how we inherited it - we have not worked on it at all in the last year, as there are simply too many other things that we have been trying to do.
 
As soon as we can, we will absolutely document how to write plugins -- but be aware that even then, there will be lots of things people will want to do with plugins that the framework will not support, so it's not like documentation will automatically make everything be possible to be done as a plugin.
 
For now, our focus is on fixing the bugs we can, adding new features where there seems to be the broadest demand (so that we can help out as many users as we possibly can) and writing user documentation first, then admin documentation, and finally developer documentation. For us, that seems to be the best way we can help out the Revive Adserver community.

Hi, 
 
In revive adserver, IP address based record stores only for conversion. For impressions and clicks not available. If you want need to create new plugins to store impressions with IP address basis only.

Hi, 
 
By manager level access you will get option to set Default banner for all the zones. Click on "My Account" , "Preferences", "Banner Preferences" :- Here you will get option to set the default banner image.
 

Also you can select other zones to deliver ads when your zone has no active banners. To do this, Edit zone, Click "Advanced" sub menu , then select any of one zone on this option "Display the selected zone instead" and click the "Save Changes" button.
 
 
There is plugin available, for publishers to add back up tag for their zones on their login section. Publishers can add any HTML tags on this to get banners and gets impressions all time without loss. You can get this plugin from http://www.reviveadserverplugin.com/product/backup-tag-for-publisher-plugin-for-revive-adserver

Hello,
 
No, absolutely not. The Revive Adserver team do not have a policy to hide anything to force people to pay for support.
 
We appreciate that our documentation is incomplete as at the time of this post - use documentation, admin documentation, and developer documentation. Indeed, there is simply no developer documentation for Revive Adserver at all at this point in time.
 
As Revive Adserver is an open source project, with no financial backing, the time that the team spends working on the code, the website, the documentation and the forum is entirely voluntary, and unpaid for. While we have a few ideas for helping to raise money to pay for things like hosting, etc., at the present time, the income that the team gets from the Revive Adserver project is effectively zero.
 
So, we'd love to have lots of developer documentation, and it's certainly on the list. When we get a chance, I am sure we will write some. Until then, we rely on the support of the community to help each other - and us - out, develop code where they can, suggest documentation improvements where they can, keep translation files up to date where they can, and support each other and answer questions on the forums where they can. All of these things will help the team spend the time they can afford to donate to the project focussed on core updates that will benefit everyone.
 
Sincerely,
 
Andrew

Anyone who wants this want to create a feature request in GitHub, please, describing what it should do / why it's required? 
 
Thinking we might aim to do this for 3.1.0 if we can.
 
Thanks.

Ad Block which I forgot to pause. Quite a stupid thing, really, but it's not in the forefront of my mind. 

Hi,
Here are few products for your reference as per your requirement.
 
N-Banner Rotation :
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/N-Banner-Rotation-Without-Reloading-Page/prod_1376.html
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/N-Banner-Rotation-With-Advanced-feature/prod_1396.html
Geo Targeting:
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/Geo-Database-Installation/prod_1318.html

More specifically, if you want to target certain ISPs, the way to do this is with the already included plugin for MaxMind, and to use the MaxMind ISP database.
 
MaxMind offer a free version of most of their databases, but for up to date info, you would probably want to consider their commercial ISP database, as it's not that expensive.
 
As of the Revive Adserver 3.0.x series, make sure you get the GeoIP Legacy version - MaxMind's GeoIP2 is not yet supported.

With DPF Small Business you can only server up to 90 million impressions per month, which isn't that much. When you want to serve more than 90 million impressions per month, you'll have to contact Google and upgrade to the DPF Premium, which will quickly increase your costs more than the cost of hosting your own Revive platform. Also you can't customize DPF.

Welcome to Revive Forum

You should definitely be able to serve way more than 200 million impressions from a single server. 200 impressions per month equals to only about 250,000 impressions per hour, which is pretty low. We have customers that serve over 1 million impressions per hour on one of our dedicated servers.

You are most likely not able to serve more impressions currently due to non optimized server for Revive, not enough server power, and possibly non optimized script as you mentioned you may need an upgrade.

My company offers Revive Adserver hosting, just have a look at http://www.reviveservers.com
 
If you migrate to us, we'll work together to make sure all your existing campaign data and statistics come along for the ride, and once it's on our platform, we'll do the upgrade for you (and all future upgrades). No charges for the migration, nor for the upgrades, that's all included in the price. And once you're on board, our team will take care of everything related to the hosting, all you have to do is manage your campaigns and site(s). And all of our hosting customers get the Dashboard plugin free of charge.
 
Just fill out the form at http://www.reviveservers.com/revive-adserver-hosting/ to contact us, and will be in touch with details about pricing and other practical items.

We are interested to developer a new plugin based on Revive Adserver. Could you sent the complete details to understand the features and specifications?
 
We have developed more than 200 Plugins based on Reive Adserver and kindly check the below URL
http://www.openxmods.com/

Thanks for the details.
 
We have a Plugin for Ip Location targeting and you can check the details in the below URL
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/Ip-Location-targeting/prod_1496.html
 
If you have any specific requirements,Kindly sent the details and we are glad to create a custom Plugin for you.

Hi,
Revive Adserver is free, you can easily download, install and work on it .

fixed.
Damn.  I had to disable, then re-enable all the plugins.