I have attempted to use the default banner ad system in vb4 and found if I have a shoutbox installed teh banner system conflicts with it. Will this banner system work with shoutbox mods such as vsa's shoutbox? The problem I had run into is when I placed an ad below the navbar, any person who clicked to use the shoutbox would be taken to the ad.

The shoutbox hooks into the templates and makes some changes I guess. Maybe you will have to choose another template for the banners, or make sure that there are no template conflicts. Most probably you will run fine inserting the banner just a line below, using <br /> or something alike. I do have forums with shoutbox and banners and there were never problems.

Thank you, I will be on the lookout for a new template for my site.

Just wondering if this is working for 4.2?

It works like a champ with 4.2 pl2

Thanks for this mod
Is it possible to MOD look only for one usergroup permission?
do you have any idea?

Is it possible to place ads in a forum sidebar block?
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Yes. you can place them anywhere.

What would be REALLY useful for me is if you could specify a username to associate with each ad, and then that username would be associated with a particular usergroup, such as 'sponsors' or 'advertisers'.

I have a section where only advertisers can post, to announce offers, or post updates and it's a pain to have to remember to put them in or take them out of this group when the ads expire.

This feature makes sense only for a fully driven ad management. You may however think about the "notes" field together with the final date/time and/or enabled flag, and some home-brewed cronjob which may solve this problem just for you.