Custom Var Targeting

[Guest Tony]

It will be great to have a possibility to target ads based on custom variables. For example  - age, gender or any other "user profiling" variables. 

Usually such kind of vars are stored in cookies. So I figure that some kind of JS API will be needed to set the profiling vars. 

[Ilya Ber 8]

You should already be able to do this using Banner Delivery Options:  The "Site - Variable" delivery limitation. 

 

Then you can just add the following bit to your regular JS zone invocation code:

document.write ("&gender=male");

[Tony 0]

great, that works!

Thank you. 

[Huge 0]

document.write ("&gender=male");

How would you include this in the javascript for the single page call websites/invocation code rather than the javascript for the zone invocation code?

 

When I select websites/invocation code and have the page generated, it shows all the invocation codes that can be copied and pasted into my webpage that would call a banner .. but I don't see how to insert the document write variable.

[liviutudor 0]

Hey guys, trying to make some sense of the site variables -- so is the idea that any key/value pair sent in the call issued by the zone tag can then be used in the site variables targeting?

or is it to do with cookies?

[janthonyeconomist 0]

I know Revive is a fork of OpenX, and it seems OpenX offers various different custom variable types http://docs.openx.com/ad_server/targeting_custom_variables.html.  What interests me the most is list, as I have a variable category which could have multiple values; for example, "cat=dog,fish,rabbit", and I would like to target on "Contains only: dog" or "Contains any of: dog,cat" or even "Contains all of: horse,cow".  Is this possible with Revive Adserver?

[bhupendra 0]

hello Ilya,

i am also stuck at the same (possibility to target ads based on custom variables) requirement [and document.write ("&gender=male"); is not working from my JS script].

also if i try to access the banner from the url  [with delivery limitation on: {revive ad server domain}/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=2&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a26b580a&group=group1] it still show me all the banners.

 

Thanks.

Edited August 18, 2015 by bhupendra

[Moe 0]

I know Revive is a fork of OpenX, and it seems OpenX offers various different custom variable types http://docs.openx.com/ad_server/targeting_custom_variables.html.  What interests me the most is list, as I have a variable category which could have multiple values; for example, "cat=dog,fish,rabbit", and I would like to target on "Contains only: dog" or "Contains any of: dog,cat" or even "Contains all of: horse,cow".  Is this possible with Revive Adserver?

Hey try regular expression :)