What is the best banner rotation software that is fast and compatible with vB? Some that I have seen allow each of the clients to log in and see thier banner impressions and click through rate. These are not absolutely neccesary, but would be a definate plus... I need something reliable. That is why adcycle looked like it could be a good one to use. But for some reason, I get nothing but Internal Server Errors when I run it. I can't get it to work, and the support is horrible over there.

What do you use, and how do you like it? I know that many of you use something to rotate your banners... Thanks...

Advert Pro is good. http://www.advertpro.com

Webadverts is what I use (a Perl based program).

PHPMyads I think is another

www.hotscripts.com

You could also just code some javascript and call it from the header.

The issue I had with using Javascript for banner rotation was that the js would run everytime the page loaded, including when the page was cached. That meant that even cached pages would be pulling down a new banner image from the server. If you have a board with a lot of bandwidth use, that extra transfer is definitely felt in the monthly invoice from your host. I think our banner images weren't being pulled from the cache because they were generated on the fly via the Coldfusion cfcontent tag (not sure what php's equivalent function is).


...lars