Why hosted? After speaking with numerous customers, they all want one thing, a product that lets them advertise and make money and do it in the simplest way possible. mySimpleAds today is desgined to keep it simple, but by taking away having to deal with installation and operation of the script, we can now make it even easier. It will also allow us to provide features, we couldn’t before, since we had to make sure the script worked on every system. Now we can finetune it, and get the most power out of it.

Where is it today? mySimpleAds.com is just in the initial programming phase. We are working in both fronts, continued excellent support for our download version of mySimpleAds, along with development on the new mySimpleAds.com. We are designing the hosted ad server version to be API centric, so you can expand it and use it in your own systems, or even make mobile Android or IPhone clients. It will also have an even nicer and cleaner backend to manage all your ads easily. You will also be able to see ad space by your ad groups through PayPal, letting you make even more money with your advertising . It will be the best of both world, letting you manage your existing ads, while selling unused ad space. In the future, we also plan to ad a mySimpleAds marketplace to provide even more traffic to your advertising.

You can put your email in at mySimpleAds.com and when we get close to beta, we will be sending out invites with free impressions for our beta testers.

If you have any thoughts on what you would like to see, please let us know. We’re creating this for you, to make your life easier and your bank account happier !

This is a revision to version 1.80 and is a bug fix update only. If you are not experiencing any issues, you do not need to update. To update this revision, simply copy over the files to your server. If you run into any issues, just let us know by putting in a ticket at the help desk.

To download the latest version, check out how to on the ClipperSoft FAQ Page.

Changelog:
1.80 -> 1.80r20110615 (Bug fix updates)
* Workaround for banner uploads not working because of server security settings
* Fix slowness in web console graph/ad table on busy sites
* Support for database names with -’s
* Handle ad description in xml/rss feed with non alphanumeric characters
* Fix impressions limit not being counted properly in some cases
* Script path in config.php now autodetected and should not need to be manually set
* Fix visitor IP not being used (vs server IP) in some cases in early 1.80 release
* Fix keyword function not working in early 1.80 release
* Move sessions to database from file based console login sessions in early 1.80 release
* Regions/Cities select using new jquery selector

Thanks again for being part of the ClipperSoft community. If you have any support related questions with the upgrade, please put in a help desk ticket.

This version adds some customer requested features to make mySimpleAds even easier! If you have features you would like to see, please make a post in the Feature Request forum.

This version is a major rework of the back end, front end, stats module, and other pieces. Please pay attention to the import notices during an upgrade process, as somethings have changed.

To download the latest version, check out how to on the ClipperSoft FAQ Page.

Changelog:
1.70 -> 1.80
+ New backend
+ New frontend coding
+ New stats module, containing more detailed stats and additional features, like region/city, browser, and platform
+ New stats display providing easier timeframe selecting and google graphs
+ Using SWFObject for Flash inserting
+ XHTML proper code for link tags, etc.
+ Ajax rotation more random
+ Ad keywords can be passed in multiples at a time like : tomato,potato
+ In stats, you can now view all ad information at once
+ You can now ‘remember’ your login to the admin console
* Fixed country/region/city sometimes showing when it should not
* Fixed multiple group ads showing bad characters
* Other minor fixes / additions
* PHP5 now required

Video overview of the mySimpleAds latest version.

Thanks again for being part of the ClipperSoft community. If you have any support related questions with the upgrade, please put in a help desk ticket.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Online advertising spending in the United States will overtake spending on newspaper ads this year for the first time, digital research firm eMarketer said Monday.

EMarketer estimated that online ad spending will grow 13.9 percent in 2010 to 25.8 billion dollars while spending on print newspaper ads will drop 8.2 percent to 22.78 billion dollars.

Including Internet ads, print and online newspaper advertising revenue will hit 25.7 billion dollars, eMarketer said, still below the 25.8 billion dollars advertisers will spend online.

“Marketers are devoting bigger shares of their budgets to digital media as they see more customers shifting time toward the Web,” eMarketer chief executive Geoff Ramsey said in a blog post.

“It’s something we’ve seen coming for a long time, but this is a tipping point,” Ramsey said.

… Online ad spend overtakes newspapers: eMarketer

ClipperSoft’s mySimpleAds Ad Management Overview

Here’s the changelog…
1.70 -> 1.80
+ New backend
+ New frontend coding
+ New stats module, containing more detailed stats and additional features, like region/city, browser, and platform
+ New stats display providing easier timeframe selecting and google graphs
+ Using SWFObject for Flash inserting
+ XHTML proper code for link tags, etc.
+ Ajax rotation more random
+ Ad keywords can be passed in multiples at a time like : tomato,potato
+ In stats, you can now view all ad information at once
+ You can now ‘remember’ your login to the admin console
* Fixed country/region/city sometimes showing when it should not
* Fixed multiple group ads showing bad characters
* Other minor fixes / additions
* PHP5 now required

So, please take a moment to head over and vote your opinion, or you always have the write in vote .

We want to keep mySimpleAds working and working securely, and keeping with a product that is no longer supported (ie, PHP4) is not a good idea.  We may also move solely to mySQL 5, but that’s more up in the air at the moment.