Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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I’ve been using Openads for quite some time to manage my affiliate campaigns. Openads has been a download that had to be installed on a server up to this point, but that’s all changing with two big announcements.

“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.”

That’s some exciting news for lots of affiliates. While I’ve had Openads (previously phpAdsNew) on my server for quite some time, I didn’t have the know-how to get it running myself, so I’ve had to hire people to do installs and upgrades.

I’d imagine there are tons of other affiliates in the same situation.

Go to http://www.openads.org/hosted to take part in beta testing on the free hosted version of Openads (the download is free, too) or keep in touch with new developments.

Congratulations to Openads, and thanks for the hosted version.

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