Google Ad Manager drops beta tag

Written on August 26, 2008 – 5:42 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer

Per the official AdSense blog: Google Ad Manager is now officially available for anyone, without invitation requirements. Now that the beta tag has been dropped, Ad Manager becomes available to anyone with an AdSense account.

Ad Manager can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure both directly-sold and network-based inventory. It offers an intuitive and simple user interface, Google serving speed and reliability, and significant cost savings. Best of all, Ad Manager can be optionally integrated with Google AdSense to offer you an automated way to maximize the revenue of your unsold and network-managed inventory.

So what’s new in this release?

interface in 32 languages and support for international currencies
manage third-party ad networks
automatic macro insertion
dynamic preview on live site
day and time targeting

More information here.

(Via GigaOM Daily)

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About the author: Robin Wauters is a Belgium-based social media consultant, startup advisor, blogger, entrepreneur, Twitter fanatic, conference organizer and allround web addict. Between trying out just about every new web application that gets in his sight, he advises local startups like ContactOffice, Oxynade and Yuntaa. And when he's not busy trying to keep tabs with what's going on in the virtualization & cloud computing industry as managing editor of Virtualization.com, he's probably working on the organization of Plugg, an annual celebration of European web entrepreneurship.

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4 comments/trackbacks to “Google Ad Manager drops beta tag”

Aug 27, 2008: links for 2008-08-26 | Olivier Galluchot
[...] Google Ad Manager drops beta tag (tags: google) [...]

By A on Aug 26, 2008

So it is kind of like OpenX?

I can either show google adsense or other ads that I have sold directly?

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By Alen on Aug 30, 2008

I really hope sp because i hate OpenX’s UI

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By Olivier Galluchot on Sep 2, 2008

@A: It’s like OpenX but, managed by Google ;)

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