OpenX – Getting Started Links

Work through the following list to get up and running with OpenX in nice easy-to-take steps.

Download OpenX

Get your hands on the ad serving software used by more than 30,000 publishers in more than 100 countries.

• If you need help on downloading the software my video tutorial, How to Download OpenX, may help.

Quick-Start Guide: How To Install The OpenX Ad Server

Once you’ve downloaded OpenX, it’s time to set it up! Follow this step-by-step guide to get OpenX running on your machine for the first time.

Quick-Start Guide: Serving Your First Ad Campaign

Now that you’ve successfully set-up OpenX, its time to start serving ads! This step-by-step guide to setting up and serving your first campaign using OpenX takes you through the three key stages:

1. Setup a new advertiser, an ad campaign and upload the banner.
2. Configure OpenX to display ads on your website by creating a publisher and associated zone and linking your ad campaign to your new zone.
3. Test the ad campaign by loading an invocation tag into a html test page.

Learn How To Use OpenX More Effectively

Once you’ve served your first ad campaign you will probably want to see what else is possible? The additional resources will help you use OpenX more effectively.

OpenX User Guide

The complete, concise guide to using OpenX.

Targeting Ads by Source Parameter by Erik Geurts

An excellent guide to targetting ads to viewers.

Documentation Index

All of the tutorials and white papers along with previous versions of OpenX user guides.