Banner Manager Professional

Preview, Features & Purchasing

Preview

Ready to view our product?  Your Administrative Login Name/Password are both Admin.  You can view the full application but do not have add/delete privileges.  Choose from one of the following versions:

Test Drive Ban Man Pro V. 2.2 with Multi-Site Option for SQL 7
(login name/password=Admin)

Test Drive Ban Man Pro V. 2.2 Standard Edition for SQL 7
(login name/password=Admin)

Features

Because Ban Man Pro™ was developed in ASP it is script application and can be customized to meet your needs.
Available with a Microsoft Access database or SQL Server 7.0.  SQL Version highly recommended for sites exceeding 10,000 impressions/day.  Ban Man Pro version 2.2 has been tested at more than 10 million impression/day on two dedicated servers.
Easy-to-use HTML interface for administration and reporting.
Provides advanced real-time reporting options for both you and the advertiser.  With version 2 reports can be viewed as HTML or exported to EXCEL.
Supports an unlimited number of Advertisers, Banners, Campaigns, and Zones. 
Banners can be weighted within a campaign, and campaigns can be weighted in each zone.
Maintains comprehensive log of click-through information and impressions in the backend database.
Supports several different types of ad tags for both ASP and non-ASP pages.  Also capable of serving ads to remote servers using the JavaScript ad tags. 
Option to launch a new browser when user clicks an ad, making it simple for them to return to your site.
Support for display of text underneath banner ad and when mouse is hovered over ad.  (SSI mode only)
Support for your own banner code, Rich Media Ads, and third-party ad agency code such as FlyCast, BurstMedia, etc. (Both SSI and HTML modes now support this feature; click counts cannot be recorded in all 3rd-party code due to the dynamic nature of the code)
 Please note that third-party code that uses the ILAYER cannot be served without removing the ILAYER portion.
Individual banners can be shown on any day of the week, and during any period of time.  For example, you might show a specific banner Monday-Friday between 9AM-5PM.
Campaigns can be set to expire based on the number of impressions, click-through or date.
Empty zones can be setup to immediately begin tracking impressions on pages where you anticipate selling ad space (SSI Mode Only).
Supports the specification of a web site default campaign.  If no valid banners are available the default campaign banners are shown.
FREE Installation.
FREE technical support.

Version 2.0 Features

Multi-site version available.  Supports an unlimited number of sites all of which can be managed from within a single administrative interface.  (Only available in SQL version for scalability reasons)
Automatic daily and weekly reports available to both the administrator and advertisers.
Supports static and rotating text links.
Includes a smoothing algorithm to evenly distribute impressions over the campaign flight dates.  For example, if an advertiser purchases 30,000 impressions to be delivered over 30 days, Ban Man Pro will deliver 1000 impressions/day.  Not available in Access version.
Includes Keyword option to call campaigns by keyword.  This is useful for search engines which sell advertising based on search words.
Includes support for an unlimited number of default campaigns.  1 default campaign can be assigned to each zone.  Default campaigns can be of any size.
Option to specify the number of hours in which a click must be unique.  This eliminates the artificial clicks from spiders which may click the same ad over and over.
Option to select which reports are available to your advertisers.
All queries in main script of the SQL version are stored procedures for increased performance and better security. 

Version 2.1 Features (SQL Version only)

Supports access to statistics via web enabled phones and PDA's.  Click here for more information. 
Significant performance increase over previous versions which more than doubles the number of banners that can be served per second.  This performance increase is accomplished through SQL stored procedures.
Option to reset stats for a particular campaign. 
Option to report by Advertiser in addition to existing reports by Campaign. 
Includes an option to upload banners to the server.  This feature is found under the tools menu.  Upload script is pure ASP and does not require any components be installed on the server. 
Supports a frequency cap option to limit the number of times a banner is displayed to the same visitor. 
Option to hide Target URL's for banner ads.
Advanced JavaScript code now includes conditional code to support the IFRAME in Netscape 6.  
Campaigns can now be applied to zones at the campaign level.

Version 2.2 Features (SQL Version only)

Enhanced Keyword option to use SQL Advanced SQL queries such as CONTAINSTABLE  and FREETEXTTABLE.  This option requires Full Text Indexing be enabled on the SQL Server.
Added a Static Banner option.  Only clicks are counted when using this option.
The program has been significantly optimized through Stored Procedures with a 30-40% performance gain.
Enhanced the error checks for zones.  Expired campaigns are now flagged as well as any zones whose inventory is not completely filled.

                                          Pricing & Purchasing

Each Ban Man Pro™ license is for a SINGLE installation.  A new license is necessary for each additional installation of the application. Multiple sites can be served as long as only one copy is installed. 

Minor updates are provided free of charge.  Major updates to the next version (from 2.X to 3.0) will be offered at an upgrade price.

Please verify that your Web Hosting Provider meets the minimum server requirements.

SQL Server Versions 

Ban Man Pro™Version 2.2 for 
SQL Server 7.0/2000 $649
   

Ban Man Pro™Version 2.2 (With Multi-Site 
Option)
for SQL Server 7.0/2000 $895
(Includes License for one installation, and ability to serve ads 
to 2 web sites; each additional 2 web sites is $399) 
 

Ban Man Pro™Version 2.2 (With Unlimited Multi-Site 
Option)
for SQL Server 7.0/2000 $2995
(Includes License for one installation with the ability to administer 
and serve ads to an unlimited number of web sites/domains.) 
 

Ban Man Pro™ SQL Server 7.0/2000 Upgrade from Access $199 (Ban Man Pro™ Access Customers Only)   

Ban Man Pro™Version 2.x  Upgrade$149
(Must be registered 1.X SQL user) 


Access Versions 

Ban Man Pro™ Version 2.0 for Access $449    

Ban Man Pro™Version 2.x  Upgrade$149
(Must be registered 1.X Access user)