Comparison of Ads / Banners Advertising modules

Last updated October 16, 2011. Created by Francewhoa on July 9, 2009.
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This article attempts to do a comparison between ads / banners advertising modules to allow you to choose which one best suits your needs.

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Overview

Module	Versions			Documentation	Demo Site	Compared on
	4.7.x	5.x	6.x
AdSense				?	demo	2009-Jul-07
Advertisement				?	demo	2009-Jul-07
Openads				?		2009-Jul-07
OpenX				?		2009-Jul-07
OpenX Manager				?		2009-Jul-07
Rotor Banner				?	demo	2009-Jul-07
Simple Ad Block				?		2009-Jul-07
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1. Openads, OpenX & OpenX Manager works together. Think of it as a package.

Cost

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1. Up to 100 million montlhy ad impressions for free. Read more.
2. Cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-impression (CPM). Read more.

Feature Overview part 1
For Drupal 6.x modules

Module	Publish ads to external sites	Random rotation	Statistic	Clickable ad	Flash banners support	Display ads in block	?
AdSense	?	?	?	?	?	?
Advertisement
Openads	?	?	?	?	?	?
OpenX	?	?	?	?	?	?
OpenX Manager	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rotor Banner 2.2			? read more		read more
Simple Ad Block	free	?	?	?	?	?
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Notes:
The symbole ? means not compared yet. Feel free to compare and add your results.

Feature Overview part 2
For Drupal 6.x modules

Module	Transition effects	Pause on hover	Display image (banner) ads	Display text ads	Display raw html ads	?	?
AdSense	?	?	?	?	?
Advertisement		1
Openads	?	?	?	?	?
OpenX	?	?	?	?	?
OpenX Manager	?	?	?	?	?
Rotor Banner 2.2	25 effects
Simple Ad Block	?	?	?	?	?
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Notes:
The symbole ? means not compared yet. Feel free to compare and add your results.

1. 'Advertisement' module isn't able to pause on hover. But this is done by design. In other words it's this module is more like a standard ads engine compare to a slideshow engine. Pause on over can be done within any flash banner though.

Integration with other modules
For Drupal 6.x modules

Module	Views 1.x	Views 2.x	ImageCache	Nodequeue	?
AdSense	?	?	?	?
Advertisement	?	?	?	?
Openads	?	?	?	?
OpenX	?	?	?	?
OpenX Manager	?	?	?	?
Rotor Banner 2.2	?
Simple Ad Block	?	?	?	?
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Notes:
The symbole ? means not compared yet. Feel free to compare and add your results.