The first person who can send me a nice 175×180 JPEG advert can have a placement just under my twitter status (on the right of this page) for one month! Just send the image itself, and the link to your site.

Please ensure that it is relevant to the content on this site (web design & development) and that it also looks pretty!

Send your image and link to rich(at)blemble(dot)com.

So I was browsing around the interweb this morning and came across an open source ad server! After looking into the subject matter a little more I realised that this stuff has actually been around for quite a while. The ad server in question is that of OpenX, ‘An open source advertising community dedicated to helping publishers make more money’. The software can be downloaded absolutely free of charge from their site and set up in a way similar to that of the famous Wordpress ‘5-minute installation’.

It has been reported today by TechCrunch that the company are delivering well over 300 billion ad impressions via it’s software as of this month.

I’m not very familiar with this type of system but one thing for sure is when I start the web 2.0 company of my dreams, OpenX Ad Server will be hiding somewhere in the background dishing up millions of impressions per second!