Technical Specifications

Latest release: OpenX 2.6.0

Delivery Model

  • License: GNU Public License v2
  • Hosted/ASP: Currently in private beta testing

Inventory Management

  • Smoothly deliver campaigns across a timeline
  • Rotate different ads and ad networks
  • Start and stop ads with the click of a button
  • Manage all types of ad formats

Campaign Delivery Options and Targets

  • Start and end dates
  • Impression, click or conversions targets per day or lifetime of the campaign
  • Relative campaign weights
  • Exclusive campaigns
  • Companion positioning

Rich Media Support

  • Traditional image, HTML and JavaScript ad formats
  • Integrated Flash support
  • All other media formats supported as HTML banner ads   

Support for 3rd party ad tags

  • Google AdSense
  • Doubleclick
  • Atlas
  • Yahoo! Publisher Network
  • Bluestreak
  • Eyeblaster
  • Falk
  • Mediaplex
  • Tango Zebra
  • Plugin Support for Custom Tag

Targeting

  • Geo-targeting*: Country, City, US Area Code, US/Canada Post Code Continent, Region.
  • Contextual targeting
  • Keyword targeting
  • Behavioural targeting
  • Zone-based targeting
  • Page URL, Variable
  • Bandwidth
  • Language
  • Domain, Referring Page, IP address
  • Browser, Operating System, User agent
  • ISP/Organisation
  • Designated Market Area, Source
  • Time/Date, Day of Week, Hour of Day
  • Longitude/Latitude
  • Channel
  • Homepage

Delivery Capping

  • Frequency by user per session and time period
  • Delivery optimisation: Automatic inventory optimisation to meet campaign targets and share traffic fairly among campaigns

Prioritisation

  • Smoothly deliver high and low priority campaigns
  • Sophisticated algorithms allocate your ad inventory in the most efficient way possible

Companion Positioning

  • Use ads from one campaign for all ad locations on a page.

Direct ad selection by banner, campaign, advertiser, size and keyword

Statistics and Reporting

  • Revenue Reporting
  • eCPM
  • CPC
  • CPA / CPL
  • Monthly Revenue
  • Ad management: real-time/ hourly/ daily
  • Click tracking
  • Tracking and reporting across channels
  • Customisation of reporting
  • Excel, HTML, CSV formats
  • Post-click tracking
  • Conversion tracking

High Volume Ad Delivery

Server Requirements - Minimum **

  • Any web server with PHP support
  • PHP 4.3.11 or higher
  • MySQL 4.0.18 or higher

Server Requirements - Recommended

  • Operating System: Linux, Unix and BSD based operating systems.
  • Web Server: Apache or lighttpd.
  • PHP: PHP 4.3.11 or higher
  • PHP accelerator: eAccelerator, PHP_Cache or similar
  • Database: MySQL 5 or higher

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Footnotes

* OpenX is distributed with the free MaxMind GeoLite Country database. MaxMind provide other open source and commercial GeoIP databases which can be used with OpenX.

** Please use the recommended requirements for production systems as this is covered by our continuous testing framework.