revive-adserver / revive-adserver

The world's most popular free, open source ad serving system. You can download the latest release at:
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Dynamic attribute tracking #1005

Open ryancco opened 6 years ago

ryancco commented 6 years ago

To preface, in part I am curious to find out if this feature first exists and, if it does not, I will seek out any and all viable alternatives. If no viable alternatives are available, I am willing to propose one as a feature.

I am looking to track custom field(s) to Revive Adserver and be able to aggregate stats taking these custom fields into account.

The closest I could find in the documentation was custom variables in ad requests which seem to be used to populate an ad space with these given variables - for what I'm not entirely sure, but nonetheless not fitting my needs by tracking back to Revive Adserver.

As a close second, or even just as viable as the first option, would be the ability to specify a user-defined callback to be fired alongside/after the callback to the Revive Adserver signaling to count the impression. This callback could be:

erikgeurts commented 6 years ago

The link you included is for another software product, not related to Revive Adserver. It does not apply here.

Revive Adserver has a 'hook' for developers that enables third party plugins to attach code when the incoming ad request has a '&source=x' parameter added to it.