Periodic Rotation

Sometimes you want to rotate your ads or content in periodic time intervals. For example, you may want to display the same content for one day and display another content the other day, automatically.

DynAds Pro has built-in support for periodic rotation of the ads of the campaigns in a zone. The image below shows the part of the Rotation Code sub-menu of the Code Generator menu in the admin panel, that includes the controls where you set the periodic rotation parameters.

Setting for periodic rotation in the code generator

You can set the number of periods you want and the unit of the period among the available units: Minute, Hour, Day, Week, and Month. The number of periods must be less than 256 and greater than 0. Thus, you can set a period such as 30 Minutes, 6 Hours, 10 Days, 2 Weeks, or 1 Month.

The ad to be displayed during the specified period is selected by the selection method you set in the code generator. For example, if you select a random selection method, then every time the period expires, the new ad for the next period will be selected randomly among the active ads of the zone. Similarly, if you select a sequential selection method, then the next ad in the ad list of the zone will be served for the next time period.

Instructions for daily banner ad rotation

Suppose that you have some ads or contents that you want to rotate daily. Every day, you want to display a random ad from the available active ads in the zone. Follow these instructions to perform the rotation.

1. In the Ads menu of the admin panel, create an ad for each of your ads.
2. Create campaigns in the Campaigns menu for the ads. It is your decision whether to include the ads into one campaign or several campaigns.
3. In the Zones menu, create a zone for the rotation. Insert the campaigns created in the previous step into the zone.
4. Go to the Code Generator > Content Rotation menu.
   1. Select the appropriate Access Method for the rotation.
   2. Select Uniform Random selection method.
   3. Check on the Periodic Ad Rotation check box.
   4. Select the period as 1 Day(s).
   5. Select other options as appropriate for the rotation.
   6. Click to the Generate Rotation Code button to obtain the rotation code.
5. Copy and paste the rotation code to your page where the ad will appear.