For years, I’ve used DATAFEEDR to manage my banner ads, and used Google Calendar to manage expiration dates. Not ideal, but it worked.
Finally, I decided to do something about it. I was seriously considering writing my own system, based on Datafeedr, but with start & end dates etc.
I’ve learned though, to check what’s already out there before jumping in with both feet and re-inventing the wheel.
So I had a look around and found “Ad Rotate”.
It does everything that datafeedr does, ads & groups, but also has a concept of “blocks” of ads. Ads have start and end dates, and can be disabled. There are “fallback” groups, in case no ads are live. Tremendous! And it’ll even e-mail me when an ad is about to expire.
The system was installed, ads copied from datafeedr, new template tags inserted, and we are up and running in half an hour.
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