Tags: There’s quite a buzz at Openads today. The reason? We just told the world 2 big pieces of exciting news:
Firstly, we have a great new investor in our company. Accel Partners in the USA have led our $15.5m Series B financing, supported by our existing investors. We’ve got to know Andrew and the Accel team well over the past few months, and they share our belief in the potential of open source software and a big, global community to help publishers to make more from online advertising.
Secondly, we’re also able to use some of that new investment straight away to deliver one of the most requested features from our community – a hosted version of their favourite ad serving software! This will make Openads easier to use and manage - both for existing Openads users, plus new publishers interested in taking back control of their online ad inventory. If you’d like to take part in beta testing or keep in touch with new developments please register here.
This is great news for the Openads Community. By adding a hosted version along side our great open source ad server we can grow the Openads Community and the additional funding will go a long way to improving the product you know and love.
Let us know what you think! We’re keen to get your thoughts…
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Hosted Version of Openads! (By Scott Switzer)
Will the downloaded version always be the same as the hosted version? Will the hosted version receive faster updates than the downloadable version? Also, I know it is free now, but will the hosted version eventually cost money?
Hi Marcos,
Thanks for the comment. Answers below:
- Openads will always be GPL, and a download version will always be available. The hosted version is a simpler way for publishers to get up and running without the hassle of installing, configuring, maintaining, etc.
- The hosted version of Openads is free (and of course the downloadable version). In the future, we may offer commercial services to users of either version of openads (downloadable or hosted) if they want additional support.
- We will try to release new features to both the downloadable and hosted versions at the same time.
Like James mentioned above, this is a major step that we are undertaking, and we are very excited about future prospects for Openads. I know that our team has been very focused on this project, and they have been doing a tremendous job so far.
We look forward to offering this huge new offering to more and more people as our beta rollout progresses.
Scott
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