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Whether you're looking for a cheap, expensive or free campaign management software, the list of ad servers below may help you out. We're comparing the costs of ad serving between 2M and 25M ad requests per month. Price rates were collected in January 2020 directly via the vendor's website.
Company | Website | Live Demo | Free Trial | 2M | 10M | 25M |
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Revive Ad Server (OpenX) | www.revive-adserver.com | Free | Free | Free | ||
AdGlare | www.adglare.com | check_circle | check_circle | $99 | $349 | $599 |
AdButler | www.adbutler.com | check_circle | $159 | $341 | $731 | |
AdSpeed | www.adspeed.com | check_circle | check_circle | $169 | $349 | $873 |
AdvertServe | www.advertserve.com | $200 | $475 | $850 | ||
Epom | www.epom.com | check_circle | $250 | $1,000 | $2,500 | |
AvidAdserver | www.avidadserver.com | check_circle | Quote | Quote | Quote | |
Adspirit | www.adspirit.com | check_circle | Quote | Quote | Quote | |
Adzerk | www.adzerk.com | Quote | Quote | Quote |
If you're a publisher, an ad server may actually earn you more money than it costs. By intelligently serving high-paying ads first, you'll be able to squeeze out a maximum revenue when monetizing your website. Ad serving platforms like AdGlare can backfill a zone with ads from a lower tier (i.e. from an ad network), so you can achieve a 100% fill rate.
Moreover, with the latest advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, modern ad serving technology like AdGlare can estimate the chance a user will click on a certain ad. This increases your revenue in case you're paid on a CPC basis.
Some ad server vendors, like AdButler, will charge you for CDN bandwidth and Analytics. Those additional fees are not included in the rate here above. If you're serving video ads, those extra charges may increase rapidly.
While some companies offer ad serving plans based on the number of impressions, it's more common to be charged based on ad request usage. It's important to understand the difference here.
An ad request is counted when the ad tag is called from a web page. That doesn't necessarily mean that an ad will be served: campaigns can have geotargeting rules applied or other restrictions like frequency capping and dayparting. If none of the ads are eligible for display, the ad slot remains empty.
An impression is counted when the ad has been loaded on a web page or app.
We can therefore state that the number of impressions is always lower or equal to the number of ad requests.
Keep this in mind, especially if you're making lots of ad requests for native ads or VAST tags. The VAST tag is called from the ad server, but an impression is counted only when the video starts playing.
Since 2013, AdGlare powers the ad serving stack of hundreds of brands and publishers worldwide. With ideas and suggestions coming from Publishers, AdOps and Marketeers like you, we're proud to offer one of the most up-to-date ad servers in the market. We adhere to IAB's LEAN Ads Program and Google's Coalition for Better Ads.
Are you a publisher or brand? Reach out to see how we can help you.