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This component caused us nothing but headache from day one.

The way to purchase an ad from start to finish is very confusing and holds much room for error for your potential customers.

After taking a long time understanding the logic, we decided the process would be too confusing for the customers or would involve more time and effort from our side to work around the logic and make the process clear. We ended up going with an online provider instead.

What a waste of time and $147!

This is the second product that I have purchased from iJoomla and I have been extremely impressed not only with the product but with the quality of the training - particularly video training that comes with the product. This is a substantial extension - but the attention to detail is truly superb. Thanks to the iJoomla - Great Work!

This extension is excellent with a ton of features. I do want to let others know about one issue that I thought was a big deal. (It didn't affect my rating.)

With the basic Joomla banner system, you can have one banner across many different modules. This is great if you sell banner space by size but in different locations on the site. But if you upgrade to Ad Agency, you have to create multiple versions of the same banner on the system and then apply each to the different module positions. For some of my banner programs I sell, this quadruples the number of banners that I have to handle in the back end. Quite frustrating.

If you don't have your banners set up like this, then you will love this product. Just something that irked me, and assumed it would have this functionality since the basic Joomla system had it.

This is the best designed ad/banner management extension available! Along with a powerful and flexible database schema it provides all major functionalities needed for a site to have a true advertisers' portal.
It deserves only a better localization feature to allow easier and more encompassing support to foreign currencies, and some minor adjustments to allow multiple ads and campaigns altogether.
Outstanding support from a staff that really has full expertise on the product, and it does look like Merav is an entrepreneurial mind behind iJoomla (something not very frequent in the Joomla component industry).

Even if my needs were not fully satisfied by this extention (I had very specifics needs, in fact I could not expect I would find my solution in a extention) the extention is really complete, probably the best so far. I've had problems with the french traduction provided on the site (impossible to use, errors in it and no time to handle it. the support was pretty responsive but no way to find what was wrong) Anyway I had to ask for a refund and search for other solutions en they did it allright. Congratulation to the teams and don't forget about the translations).

I never imagined that this product would be so great, it is a full online Ads Agency with everything and more, text ads, standar banners, facebook like text ads, popups ads, flash banner and many other ads options, they have a lot of tutorials to teach you how to use AdAgency Extension, I am really happy to have this product. The support team is incredible they guided me in every minor problem i got into tunning the spanish translation and the extension, congratulations ijoomla.

This is by far the best extension available in this section.
First the price held me back but now i am finished with the configuration and it has amazingly lot opportunities. The best thing is that you can share the adds over my network of website (as i have).
Multiple types of ads and "Advertise here" text when a zone is not holding an advert. A great 5 star!

We have made a ton of money with this component, very easy to use and set-up and the remote extension is just awesome. Definitely worth the money we paid for it.

I am so far using this on one site only but have found it a very well designed extension with amazing capabilities. The few problems I've had I've been able to deal with it by reading the manual. And those that I didn't, I submitted a support ticket and had a very fast response that helped out. (The issue was my fault but I hadn't realised it!). Definitely recommend this to others and I look forward to using it on a new site soon.

I am using an older banner rotation program on my website and it doesn't let my clients see how their banners are doing so when I read about Ad Agency I knew I had to upgrade this area of my website.

It installed instantly but when it came to setting up the banners I had trouble. I struggled with it for a while assuming the problem was user error but at the end of the day, I submitted a support ticket. Half a day later, I got a response. It turned out that Ad Agency was not working on some pages due to a conflict with another component which I use to create a business directory (Sobi2). The tech support fixed the problem and explained what action was taken so that I would understand it too. Surprisingly, the action taken by the IJoomla team fixed a long standing issue I was having with the Sobi2 component as well! I couldn't be happier.

Ad Agency has a LOT of features so it might take a couple of days for the average Joomla user to get used to how it works but know that if you run into a problem, don't struggle as I did - submit that support ticket. These people are serious about support and will help you out in a timely and professional manner.

I couldn't be more pleased and for me it was worth every penny.

We are developing a community website based on Joomla 1.5 and some external php applications that we use.

For a while we were looking for a "central hub" to allow our members to publish and manage ads throught our entire network (portal,forum, other apps). We wanted this "hub" to automate the entire ads publishing process and take care of payments.
After a little bit of research we came across iJoomla Ad Agency and we simply got in love with it! This component deserve EVERY penny!

Not only that we can define zones and allow our members to run CPM or CPC based ads but we can also integrate this into ANY EXTERNAL APPS!

Now, our members can start adv. campaigns inside any of our external apps because ijoomla developers were smart enough to integrate a javascript "rendering" engine that allow us to "render" any zone, via javascript inside any external app. So, our users can publish and manage their campaign inside Joomla with effect to any other external application.

Tech Support is very responsive! We had a little issue (css related) and Alin took care of it very fast!

THIS COMPONENT IS A MUST HAVE! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

This is one of the best extensions for banners and publicity marketing ...
it will be even better if it will have integration with CB ))
KEEP UP THE GREAT JOB.

To express how powerful this extension is might take a full 3 pages, as it has endless options and features to both administrators and advertisers.

Superior coding and design with outstanding documentations, video tutorials and best support I've seen, namely by Alin.

Frontpage control panel with customizable menus and modules, very professional look and functions.

Backend component page gives you the power that I doubt any other ads manger has. Geo maps, payment gateways, affiliation codes, modules, flash, admin ads, customizable packages, and many other features that make you appreciate every dollar spent on this extension.

Thanks for making it and keep it going.

I have been using Ad Agency for over 2 years for a big site. I chose AdAgency because it was the only really full featured ad system for Joomla. In version 1 we had to do a lot of hacking in order to it running more automatically. Version 1 had many obstacles for the ad clients and we had a real setback in our earnings when changing from a very old ASP system to Joomla and Ad Agency.

But by the new version (version 2) Ad Agency got a lot better. The videos are very informative for us admins and the frontend is getting more intuitive for the ad clients too. After the installation of the new version I just had to do some few re-hacking in order to get it working as I would like it to.

Ad Agency is getting more and more flexible. Merav is doing a fine job among demanding webmasters and developers that perhaps should be a bite closer connected into the community debates. It is really hard explaining technical terms to a non-technical person so I hope to see the developers more in the debates in the future.

Otherwise when I in version 1 experienced errors I got relatively quickly and relatively good support from the developers via the ticket system.

I have reported many ideas and bugfixes that I would like to be a part of future versions. What I reported 1-2 years ago are mostly implemented now and I am now enjoying using Ad Agency and looking forward to what new versions will include of the posted suggestions from many users.

I must bring a warning to webmasters with sites that have more than one template and where Ad Agency’s frontend administration is set up (in the menu manager) to be used on a template that is NOT the default template. I think that Ad Agency has not been tested on a Joomla installation where Ad Agency (frontend admin) was using a non-default template. The ItemID-value is only used in 10% of all links, form-submits, buttons, redirects etc and therefore you “loose” your template and all modules in it when clicking on something where the ItemID-value was not used.

This bug has been there since the beginning and it is not on the radar screen of Merav and Co. Anyone that opens the source code can see that ItemID value is mostly not used (even in version 2). But with at bite of hacking the ItemID value was inserted in the most important files and we could use it.

Ad Agency is very cheap compared to other ad system (not for Joomla) and because of this I think there is not much money for the developers to develop the new things. I would gladly pay more – for example for new versions if I was getting more new features and a more tested and bugfixed system.

I am giving Ad Agency 5 stars because Ad Agency is the best full featured ad system for Joomla and it is getting better by each version.

And by the way, just ignore BlackHat_Inc’s review (below mine). I do not agree with this user – it is way too negative.

I have worked with Openx the last two years, but with each new version the perfomance down.

I have tried is better than Openx. The perfomance in server is better. And you can sell directly CPM,CPC and time based Campaigns to your advertisers.

Recommended!

The problems with iJoomla AdAgency seem to be getting worse with each new release. Whereas one hopes after paying for an extension, bugs quirks, etc would be resolved with each new release.

Unfortunately this has not been the case, and the problems with the latest version are an utter catastrophe.


* This past October we were using a version prior to 1.6.12 and had what in hindsight was a very MINOR problem with new ads not being published properly into rotation.
* After contacting support we were told to upgrade to 1.6.12
* Upon installing the upgrade, the site now became inundated with SPAM registrations
* Further having the "rotate" banners option on, caused the RSMembership Extension to stop processing PAID Registrations and instead sent would be customers into a giant loop in which the form would refuse to process (turning off rotate banners "fixed" this problem
* Nevertheless, the spam continued unabated
* Thus visiting the site on December 17th, 2010 we saw another new upgrade was available, i.e. Version 2.0.2
* Now after installing this upgrade the entire manner in which advertisers purchased ads on the site is broken and obsolete thanks to the revamped "Campaign" feature which only allows one ZONE per campaign (utterly brilliant)
* Our X-Mas campaign with multiple sized ads, USELESS
* Pre-Existing Clients who had purchased access to MULTIPLE ZONES in order to run an actual CAMPAIGN, useless.
Now we have to either A. Sift through 5000 plus ads and create multiple campaigns for each sized banner, add all new packages, and add back in ads on a per zone basis instead of for each client?

Oh but wait you say, lets just simply downgrade back to 1.6.12....nope not unless you want to restore an entire back-up version of the site.

Simply downgrading to 1.6.12 totally breaks the site and displays a blank home page.

This is ridiculous. the developers have taken a powerful Advertising suite and totally changed its organization, utterly ruining the usability.

Now instead of offering a CAMPAIGN with 3 zones with 100,000cpm for $100.00 (our previous biggest seller) we can offer ONE zone?

I really like it do exactly what was described in listing! Admin section is very clear. I was have small questions related with functionality but stuff reply very fast and support was extremely effective!

Thank you very much for your great product and professional support!

I would like to thank Alin at Ijoomla for the great support I have received. The installation and setup of Ad Agency is quick and easy, and Alin was very helpful with a few queries that I had, and the response time was also very quick. I would recommend any of IJoomla components (I have used Ad Manager, News Portal, and Magazine) since these guys are there to support you in any way they can. They even take the time to answer your queries on the forum (which very few software developer companies are willing to do)

If I could give you guys 10 stars... I Would!

Keep up the good work!