Comments on: Battle of the clickTAGs for Flash ad click throughs.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:15:54 +0000

I've been fighting this for a year or two now that people are starting to use fp9/as3 banners. I've posted my clicktag solution, sometimes it flies, sometimes clients respond with the ol' as2 3 liner they get emailed in excel docs…

http://snipplr.com/view/36597/as3-clicktag–wor...

By: video seo

video seo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:00:38 +0000

Always check for the preview and click through on the ad server before going to make .This battle of ad dominance is marked by the ongoing and expensive display ad templates, which are trafficked just like any other Flash ad .

By: video seo

video seo — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:36:51 +0000

You do not need a big advertising company to serve the banners, you can host all files on your website. … Easily add

By: Dayn

Dayn — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:03 +0000

Thanks for commenting, SL. Funny! If you are, in fact, the Grandfather of the quickTAG, then which do you prefer? Do you have an opinion as to which is “proper”? Was clickTag selected because of the CamelBack notation? We'd love to see those original proposal docs!

By: SL

SL — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:09:14 +0000

Just seen this now making me lough laugh. I'm actually the actual person who proposed and -to no say- invented this tracking solution back 9 years ago: clickTag was selected, but some mistyping documents came up with clickTAG instead. Since then, it is as you said the clicktag war.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:10:59 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Tom and Joe.

Tom, I'm using Banner Flow so clients can proof and reference banner versions now. Thanks!

If you've need a clickTAG tutorial, check out Joe's at http://www.flashclicktag.com.

Joe's method works great too, but I personally prefer to use a Button movie type with a rectangle in just the Hit frame to make a clear button. When you finish editing the button and return to the stage, this causes Flash to show an icy, semi-transparent blue in the shape of your clickTAG button so you don't lose track of it. You can also isolate the clear button on a layer, and hide the layer if the icy blue is in your way.

Again, thanks for the tips guys.

By: iGuide

iGuide — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:33:02 +0000

Anyone know how to deal with more than one clickTAG? Or is it clickTag? I’m getting all sorts of variations from advertisers and this still seems like a foreign language to me.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:27:09 +0000

Thanks, this came in handy.

By: clickTAGer

clickTAGer — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:22:23 +0000

to Chris:
This solution isn’t right for some ad-networks, ad-server backend checks code of swf file. If server see different clicktag code version for example getURL(clickTAG,”_blank”) instead of getURL(_root.clickTAG,”_blank”) – server rejects file with error message. As you see some networks don’t see that getURL function is on root level and warns about it. In this case QA stage returns files back to producers

to Jeff C:
What kind of WP plugin?

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:17 +0000

Has anyone tried to use clickTAG with Wordpress? I tried displaying some Flash ads on several versions of Wordpress and they don’t work. Meaning, the Flash animation works, and the ad is clickable, but when clicked a “not found” comes up within the site.

Not sure how to resolve – any ideas?