I have no active blogs so I can't try. What is the template you are using?

HiO Back2Basic

But I should not say blog. It's the CMS home page where it fails to pickup but ads through the built in system do pickup.

I believe those are the the 'ad_blogsidebar_*' templates ... I'm not sure what the vbulletin banner system does to HTML. I'll see :)

The code does nothing special. Banners rotate also in vBulletin ad space, so when it runs in the header, it also should run in the blog sidebar:

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I don't know if the CMS sidebar is cached. If it is, maybe it is an issue. But none I could change.

The forum sidebar is cached, but if the content is HTML, the banners are still rotated. So far I can tell the banners rotate everywhere in vBulletin and the only known issue is about forums using photopost and its pages.

Unistalled, way too confusing to use.

That's unfortunate, because it's really not confusing at all once you grasp the concept of placehoilders and because it works like a charm.

better description among the installation would help everyone greatly......

In all the years I'm software developer (34), I never have found a better way to describe how to install a software than to illustrate visually. However, I believe that vBulletin owners are grown up enough to follow a common line. If you managed to install vBulletin, which has in fact simplified a lot lately, you also should be able to install a vBulletin plugin.

Without going now into the psychological detail, why installing an addition may cause more grief than installing a software, I would like to say that a free software addition with almost all commercial features one could desire, everyone could invest a little personal efford to get there.

Of course, if in the course of this plugin it will work out to rather sell, I will also be able to pay somebody who may install the plugin and make it work at each customer's forums. ;)

Is it possible for the images to flicker every few seconds? The ads only change when someone refreshes a page....

The unsupported addon (post 898 or 989 :p) can do this for you.

EDIT: Post 989, page 66 (this thread)