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The ad module is a powerful advertising system for Small Business Websites. It supports the random display and tracking of graphical (banner) and text ads. Ads can easily be displayed in headers, footers, side bars, or embedded in site content. The ad module records comprehensive statistics about when and how often ads are viewed and clicked, including a optional module for generating graphical time-based reports.

Features:

• auto-generated ad blocks supporting a configurable number of ads
• automatically or manually embed ads into site content
• collection of comprehensive statistics allowing time-based reporting and analysis (example report)
• tracking of when and where ads are clicked, by which user and which IP
• advertisements can have multiple owners
• granular per-advertisement/per-owner permissions system
• activation/expiration scheduling based on time, clicks or views
• an ad_image plug-in for image (aka banner) ads
• an ad_text plug-in for simple text ads
• an ad_report plug-in for basic graphical reports (depends on the Google Charts API)
• an ad_actions plug-in which can be used to schedule automatic email notifications (depends on the token module)
• an ad_remote plug-in for hosting ads on remote (non-Drupal) websites
• geotargeting is provided through the Ad GeoIP project
• an administrative statistics overview page
• support for any number of configurable ad groups, utilizing Drupal's taxonomy (category) subsystem
• display ads based on node ids (nids), or taxonomy terms (categories)
• file-based caching for improved performance
• memcache-based caching for improved performance (using the ad memcache module)
• support for external caching methods