Using Revive For Simple Mobile Ads

[Will7]

Hi all,

 

I am quite new to the world of online advertising. I have been investigating Revive and frankly I'm a bit lost with all the different campaign types.

 

The requirements I need to meet are:

1. Simple, text-based ads, to be shown on a mobile phone, retrieved via the Revive API. (e.g. custom Android app, call Revive API to retrieve ad text)

2. Be able to manage campaigns based on a start and end date.

3. Be able to have multiple banners within a campaign, and show these either in a round-robin fashion or based on a weight/priority.

4. Be able to track if a "user" has seen the banner before - I can identify users based on a unique ID which I can pass to Revive.

 

I have the following questions:

1. Which campaign type is the best for these simple requirements? I have tentatively looked at the remnant campaign.

2. Is there any documentation available for the API? I see lots of OpenX documentation but I'm unsure if this is relevant for Revive.

3. Can the API only be accessed via XML/RPC?

4. Can I drive the creation of these campaigns via the API?

 

Thank you in advance for any help

 

Kind regards, Will

[andrewatfornax]

I am quite new to the world of online advertising. I have been investigating Revive and frankly I'm a bit lost with all the different campaign types.

 

You can read about the three different types of campaigns in Revive Adserver here:

 

http://documentation.revive-adserver.com/display/DOCS/Creating+a+campaign

[Will7]

Hi Andrew,

 

Thank you, I will read up again on campaign types.

 

Is there any documentation on the API?

[Eliza0406]

Will,

Contract Exclusive and Remanent campaign types will be the best choice for your expectations. For knowing more details about API features you mentioned, you can refer to various APIs described in the following site : http://www.openxservices.com/

[Will7]

@Eliza0406

 

Thank you very much for the recommendation regarding campaign types. I will definitely check the site you mentioned, I was hesitant to use OpenX documentation as I don't know how far the Revive code base has diverged from OpenX since the fork

[andrewatfornax]

Is there any documentation on the API?

 

Nothing official yet. I'm working on documentation when I can, and adding pages as often as I can. There's usually something new every week or so.

[Will7]

Thank you for the update Andrew