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OpenX is an ad serving platform. It is sold option as a hosted solution for can be purchased as an installed application. It allows for easy inventory management , geo-targeting of ads by country, and provides statistics for each ad placement.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/qY/z4/U5685KMSVPMS.JPEGOpenXGreat Reporting Software2018-09-27T20:03:32.420ZMy department uses OpenX to generate reports for clients. These reports essentially detail how their advertisements performed for our eNewsletter deployments. We report on the sent, opens, clicks, CTR, open rates, etc., and OpenX is great for customizing these reports for the specific client.,Customizes reports
Gives detailed and accurate information
Is simple to use,Could provide full reporting information,9,Saves time
Saves Money
Makes clients happy,Sailthru,B2BCassidy EbertOpen X for easier channel management and better ROI2014-02-22T23:42:06.003ZI was building a website from scratch for a very large medical content company that wanted to rotate a range of ads in a range of areas on the site for the wide number of products that they were selling. The Open X Ad Server worked like a dream. I was able to keep track of all of the inventory, serve it up on the correct pages, and repurpose the ads. I was also able to track which were working best and show them more often, and pull the ads that were unperforming, tweak them, and get them back up. There was a bit of a learning curve involved when I first started, but no more so than other products I have used, and I found the customer service was very supportive if I did have specific issues.,Ease of use
Flexibility
Good interface
Good customer service,User manual
A quick get start manual online would help,9,Faster lead conversion
A more robust website
More product purchases through contextualized ads
Better click through on ads because they were contextualized,,9,No,10,Yes,Yes, when I was in the hospital with a bad case of flu for 3 days and had 2 weeks left to fix all of my ad server blocks on all my pages. I got done 5 days early in the end thanks to them. They helped me get everything up and running and iron out browser issues and so on very quickly; while, I am sorry to say, my colleagues and the marketing company we were using at the time did ZERO to help. They never even answered my emails. In fact, the latter actually tried to hold me to ransom for MORE money! I had given them a long list of things to do and asked over and over for an ETA on when they would be done. Silence. Then as the deadline approached, they demanded more money. Totally against the contract we had agreed to. We fired them in the end because they had behaved so unprofessionally.
I explained my desperate situation to OpenX and they were on it like a shot. They were a lifesaver. We never could have launched and made money without their help.,Creating ads
assigning ads to pages
assigning ads to ad blocks on my pages,creating the ad blocks was sometimes buggy but that might have been odd integration at the site, which was run on Wordpress and which I did not do,9J C MullallyOpenX Ad Serving Platform at Mail.com2014-02-21T17:39:36.898ZAt Mail.com Media Corporation (currently Penske Media Corporation http://www.pmc.com ) OpenX was used to power the Mail.com portal page which served millions of unique users per day and more than half a billion ads per month. The Mail.com portal page delivered unique content and was the focal point in which users would pass as they logged into their webmail each day. OpenX was chosen to supplement then reduce the reliance of third party ad networks which were already serving this strategic space in the Mail.com network. OpenX allowed Mail.com to reduce the dependency and heavy costs associated with third party ad networks. In addition to being less dependent on third party ad networks and reducing costs, OpenX helped empower the ad sales and ad operations teams by giving them more control of their own network inventory. OpenX also served ads network wide in each brand and line of business in the Mail.com portfolio.,OpenX is a system that was designed to scale as is evident in some key design decisions found throughout the platform. The multi-server setup that was chosen at Mail.com allowed for a distributed server architecture which separated the front end web delivery nodes from the backend MySQL Database master which replicated data back to each front end delivery node mysql slave. This eased the ability to horizontally scale as needed due to the ingenious separation of the ad impressions data tables on the delivery nodes which were being collected locally on each ad impression and then processed periodically back to to the master database which replicated the aggregated statistics back to the delivery nodes. The ability to load balance across the front end web delivery nodes, add caching at many different layers, utilize a CDN for the static ad images, implement PHP accelerators, and hit memcached instead of the MySQL master made the OpenX platform a service that was very resilient to failures.
The ability to optimize the platform is also something that OpenX does very well. This is evident in many of the config key parameters available. In addition to OpenX specific tunable's, optimizations can be made at many different levels in which the system sits. These include hardware and operating system level optimizations, tcp and networking stack optimizations, web server/php-cgi configurations, and database (MySQL InnoDB) tunable's. There are many different optimization knobs that can be tuned to help scale the application for the best performance possible
The documentation was simple, to the point, and well written which led to an easy initial implementation and roll out of a multi-server setup. The installation and upgrade procedures were straight forward even for the complexities of the multi-server setup. I also found the OpenX team to be accessible and even got a chance to meet some of the team at their Up Close and Personal events at Cal Tech in Pasadena. Core developers were on hand to answer technical questions and also made themselves available to us via email and irq channels.
The open nature of the OpenX platform allows for flexibility in the choice of web serving platform to use (Apache, nginx, Lighttpd) and also the database management systems (MySQL, PostGreSQL),Although I do believe that OpenX was designed to scale, many of the platform's target users are running single server implementations which probably led to the silly choice of MyISAM as the default database storage engine for the MySQL tables. In multi-server setups or any installation with a significant amount of load these should be altered and optimized for InnoDB. The default storage may have changed since my last roll out of this platform but I do remember the tables needing altering before putting any significant amount of load on them.
In a multi-server setup sometimes problems can arise from the statistics collector and processor on the front end delivery nodes that process the ad impression data and aggregate the resulting statistics back to the master database resulting in several scenarios in which the master database can be out of sync with information collected on the delivery nodes and manual intervention is needed. However, most of these problems can be monitored and engineered for.
The focus of OpenX on enterprise customers serving hundreds of millions of ads as opposed to the long tail of smaller publishers who simply can't afford to utilize the enterprise hosted solution and must utilize the OnRamp solution which has suffered from performance problems and might not be a viable option for many medium sized publishers,9,Reduced dependency on third party ad networks reducing costs
Increased ad sales and ad operations team efficiency
Ability to tailor ads for specific brands using many advanced features such as demographics and geo targeting.,DoubleClick,DART,7Michael GrazzianiOpenX Revolutionized Local Newspaper Website2014-02-28T21:24:14.971ZUsed OpenX to manage all online advertising for a local newspaper. This was being used to manage 100% of the online advertising for the organization.,Managing ads through ad networks like Google was very easy. It was very easy to manage the ad network ads alongside of our own ads.,No answer,9,OpenX made it easy to manage online advertising. At the time I used the product I was the lead developer in charge of implementing the solution but quickly was put into the role of managing the traffic and training other users. It was really easy for a technical user to become a traffic manager. Getting other users trained and up to speed was very efficient.,5Torin GilkeyEfficiency, ROI, and speed2014-02-21T19:56:31.060ZOpenX not only made our media buying more efficient, we were able to increase both impressions and ROI to expand our branding while generating a return, which isn't easy to do.,Programmatic buying
Puts media dollars to a more efficient use
Allows for transparency in placements,Better product differentiation
Connection to more ad management tools,10,Increased efficiency in buys,10Joshua FranklinCreative Use of Ad Serving in Video Games2014-02-19T16:59:52.968ZOpenX was used to serve banner ads within free-to-play Facebook and Mobile games that had millions of daily users. This was a bit of a custom implementation, and a bit of ahead of the times for the industry in 2010. Where we acted differently was to use OpenX to serve our own internal 'house ads' in addition to external paid advertisements. We used these banner spaces, set up as separate OpenX zones, to do everything from cross-promoting our own internal games to providing information and instructions to players. Many times, players had no idea they were looking at information served up by an ad platform, but OpenX and the flexibility of modules available to us let us select and target our players with a CRM approach that was later admired by the much larger company that bought us.,It's inexpensive to license, or at least it was. We basically paid nothing to use OpenX up-front, so it was easy to convince the powers that be to let us invest some time into the software.
It's flexible, allowing creative teams to do more than simply sell ad impressions or clicks. We used it to pop-up informational and fun content to specific subsets of players.,OpenX was sometimes tricky to use and didn't feel like a well-polished product. That is exacerbated when you're using custom modules to make the software do things it wasn't intended to.
Gaining access to OpenX data and instrumentation was a chore, making reporting a manual process that was time consuming.,9,We were able to deliver much more efficient ad impressions by targeting sub-sets of our playerbase with specific messages, often as much as 3x clickthrough rate
We were able to use OpenX to precisely target messages that we specifically didn't want other players to see, allowing us to publish content we could not otherwise
We could plan a specific amount of traffic in advance from one game to another in a given day, then have OpenX deliver +- 5% of that traffic automatically. This enabled strategic planning of traffic.,Digital Chocolate,Ad Expert,9,5,3,Sophisticated Cross-Promotions
Providing information to players at key moments
Enabling strategic planning of traffic.,We used OpenX to serve ads into videogames
We used OpenX to plan inter-departmental cross-promotions at a metered rate
We used OpenX to offer giveaways and digital goods to specific players,Expanded use in mobile gamesAvery AlixOpenX and Me!2015-11-06T16:41:01.637ZWe used OpenX in a educational platform, to show ads to engage the user with similar content and to do A/B testing for registration styles.,A/B testing was particularly good, having the ability to configure probabilities and other settings.
Analytics was well detailed.
Integration and implementation were simple and easy to customize.,User interface is not so straightforward.
Documentation was not as complete as it could be.,8,We improved conversions using forms to register (as if they were ads) in OpenX.
We created awareness of the richness of our content.,,B2CVerified UserDecent but did not exceed expectations2014-03-07T20:48:35.050ZWe brought OpenX on as an ad server because another portion of our company was using them as a publisher platform. We were able to get a significant discount by utilizing OpenX. We used it across my department in order to run ad campaigns.,Good customer service
Good tech support
Thorough,Integration process was long & arduous
Had attribution issues initially
Could not properly integrate piggyback pixels,7,Increased my teams technical knowledge
Got us up & running quickly, allowing us to start generating site traffic.
Allowed us to improve clients experience with detailed reporting,,5Verified UserOpenX Enterprise has excellent product support!2014-02-22T23:03:47.702ZWhile our core business is very concentrated, our parent company has a network of resources for a very unique ad network. We utilize OpenX to serve advertisement(s) across multiple sites. All of our ads are house-ads and is not open to the public; it's solely to promote our products, initiatives and support a plethora of partnerships. It easily allows a small team to manage advertisements throughout the network with ease.,OpenX easily allows us to manage our network and inventory.
Enterprise support staff is very helpful; training is accessible.
They are local to Los Angeles.
Reporting registers relatively quickly.,Propagation could be improved; ad units that need to go live immediately could take up to 45 minutes to propagate.
Over-complexity can be confusing. There are multiple tiers before assigning ad units per order and it seems unnecessary.
Real-time reporting or a status dashboard would be great.,9,Increased employee efficiency with ease of reporting and ad management.
Reporting tools have helped global partnerships solicit additional sponsorship contracts.
Enabled us to connect all of our site inventory into one central management tool.,,9Verified UserOpenX for SMB use2014-05-09T15:54:01.154ZIt is a viable ad serving solution for our internal membership based properties. Allows for customized targeting and on the fly changes with ease.,Micro targeting
Ease of trafficking ads
Ease of trafficking placements,More robust reporting features
Creation of users with specific permissions
Delay in reporting,8,Great ad targeting
Increased roi on membership upsells
Quick implementation and efficiency,DART, MEDIAMIND and ATLAS,8Verified UserM Review2014-03-03T23:28:27.780ZUsed by certain departments for trafficking or reporting purposes and addresses the needs especially for smaller businesses.,Tool quickly identifies how to link zones
Able to create placements quickly
Easy to use the UI,UI makes sense but needs a revamp
Have to drill down into placements, creatives, etc,4,Increased efficiency for my clients,DoubleClick,OAS,Adtech,zedo,5Verified UserOpen X, Not an Open Book.2014-02-21T21:09:53.904ZOpen X is being used in the form of buying the inventory through our DSP partners in a RTB dynamic CPM buy. Anyone managing campaigns would have experience with Open X inventory and buying from the exchange.,When it comes to RTB and spending on the open exchange market, the number one reason why we spend in one exchange over another is simple performance
When Open X doesn't perform which it tends not to, we have to shut that exchange off. This exchange tends to not perform at a CPA or CPC KPI and tends to not have the safest sites either.
Because I only use Open X as an exchange which I tap into from a DSP I can't speak to it's other capabilities.,Get better publishers, have more transparency.,3,None,,2Verified User
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