I will definitely be keeping my eye on this… While i love when google moves into more markets i hate it for those already in it unless they buy them up because G is such a force and innovative they usually blow the rest out.

Thanks im going to give this beta ad manager a try ~Nick~

I’ve used PhpAdsNew (OpenX) for years and have been thinking about a solution to fill non used space with adwords. Requesting invite.

Signed up for the beta and awaiting my invite … as they say innnovate or die

I’ll stick with openx. Call me paranoid but google knows enough about my sites already, I don’t want to give them all my ad data now.

Does it come with a demo?

This is a pretty huge deal. I’ve requested an invite and we’ll see what happens.

I was curious how this will work with Doubleclick (which they now own). Doesn’t it technically compete? Companies pay $millions a month for Doubleclick to serve impressions…I wonder how it compares functionality-wise.

I read earlier today that this is a solution for small-mid sized publishers, and DCLK is for high-end…but I wonder why/what the differences are.

I am SO appl’d This rocks, I server 5 + million impressions a month, I am sure they should let me in.

THANKS SHOEMONEY!

Very cool. And a little frightening

Wow sounds awesome. I am already on the sign up page.

Is openx good too? Worth signing up? I am confused

I think I’ll be hanging out with OpenX for awhile longer until this one gets out of Beta like Gmail.

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Wow - this is incredible news! I was using a Wordpress plugin to manage ads for awhile and pulled it, so this is perfect timing! I wonder how it handles payments?

I’m not sure about having google manage all of a site’s adverts. Don’t people start selling ads on their own to get away from adsense once they have enough traffic to start making decent money?

This is another great product coming from Google…I’ll definitely keep my eye on this to use in the future. Thanks!

NJ WebGuy - you’ll still make the same money with this - Google doesn’t take a cut. Just saves time and hassle really… Though having so many Google services does scare me a tad.

so you still need people to want to advertise on your site. I guess this is only useful if your site is popular enough to get ad buyers.

Let’s say I’m cautiously optimistic :>)

I wonder if the snippet of code used to place the ads makes the link nofollow?

Keep it coming Google!!

They are combining analytics, adserving, and a media network for free. If this works, they just killed the analytics and adserving industry. The only way to compete is by offering better service, privacy, or offer an alternative self hosted version of the adserver so Google will not have your site and advertiser data.

Signing up now, I’ve never used OpenX so I guess I’ll try Google AdManager out.

I just realized that the Rubicon project is also screwed.

This is both exciting and scary at the same time. I think Google will provide a great service here once the system is up and running, but Google is really looking to take over the world!

Neat! I signed up for an invite! I hope I get one.

This is great I just signed up for an invite too.

So, basically this is Google’s way to sell linking ads or I missed something?

This rocks. I was just about to start using OpenX on my blog, but I think I’ll use this instead. Free geo targeting for ads instead of subscribing to the MaxMind database - it makes more sense to use Google’s solution

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I like the openads platform fine, more importantly though I don’t want to give over everything to google. I mean what fun is the internet going to be when GooMart runs all of the mom and pop stores out of the neighborhood? at some point being everything for everyone seems uninteresting to me

I wonder, can user join google ad manager whome has banned from google adsense? Is there a relation with these?

I look forward to checking it out.

It was nice meeting you at SXSW btw!

I’ll have to check into this further, but I just installed oioPublisher on my blog and it’s pretty robust. I’m not to sure either about giveing Google more of my data, they already have enough.

I’ll have to find out more about it and how it works. It’s all pretty new to me so far.

i am excited about this as well… you have done a good review here

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Interesting. I’m in for an invite.

That’s awesome!! I’m going to check it out right now. Thanks for letting us all know about it, probably wouldn’t have heard of it for another month or so.

It makes much more sense to serve the ads yourself. I don’t trust Google and their spyware and why give them some of your hard earned money?

yeah, and now I have like 150 gmail invites I will NEVER use. I guess the lesson is that if I don’t get chosen I should just be patient, because soon this will be in everyone’s metaphorical pocket!

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It’s a great idea, but IMO we’re all sick and tired of Google. They know too much and allowing them to know more will be even worse for the internet marketing sector. They have monopolized pretty much everything now outside of operating systems. Let’s innovate more, none of their services really impress me graphically, performance, or support wise. Anyone who uses Adwords will know what I’m talking about.

I won’t use this, for what reason? I’m tired with Google, they are simply too strong in the online business.

I might use this for my static content sites but for my blog I use OIO publisher. It’s all you really need.

I have just applied for Ad Manager… only recently started monetising my site. looks good and promising so far

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