Geotargeted Advertisments

Yes, I will add support for geotargeted ads, but I plan to work on other core functionality first. It will likely be some time before I get to this feature. (That said, patches are always encouraged...)

Perhaps geotargeting could be implemented generically using views? For example, create a view filter "Geotargeting: IP In Country", then offer a popup with all country choices of which one or more can be selected. This could then be used to create ad blocks, and the appropriate ad block would be displayed based on the IP address.

If such a geotageting view was created, the ad module would not have to be modified at all to support this. The same view could be used to geotarget any other node content too, not just ads.

Would this work? If so, is anyone interested in taking it on? Or even better, does it already exist?

(The only down side to this method is it would only work for when displaying ads on the Drupal website. It would not allow you to offer geotargeted ads when serving ads to remote sites. Thus, I'll still likely come up with something specific to the ad module when I ge time to focus on this.)

Not sure if you've looked at IP to Country

That looks like a good option. Are there any other Geotrageting API's ported to Drupal? It would be nice to know all the options before I start to implement this.

New features will only be added to the 5.x development branch.

A couple other free geotargetting databases:

• GeoLite Country
• IPdeny

Just wondering the status of this issue. I'm interested in it and am wondering if anyone is working on it, or if a direction of attack has been decided. I might be able to have a go at it, but I don't want to do extra work if someone is already working on it.

I am not aware of anyone working on this functionality at this time. Feel free to assign it to yourself if it's something you wish to tackle.

Integrating the Ad module with the MaxMind GeoIP database is being sponsored by Pricescope.com. Moving this feature request to the newly created ad_geoip project.

With the 1.0 release of the Ad GeoIP module, geotargeting is now officially supported by the ad module. (Be sure to download the latest development version of the ad module -- new hooks were added to support geotargeting that will be part of the next Ad module release.)