Hello,
Recently i have notice that Forumotion started to publish the "ads.txt" file in all the domains. For instance: https://help.forumotion.com/ads.txt
This applies to every single forum hosted here... Try in your site to: yourdomain.com/ads.txt
To be honest, this is probably to much technical stuff, and some users may not even care or understand, but this WILL affect anyone who use custom ads. And also will several limit the usage of the service, so is important that someone in Forumotion end see this ASAP.
The ads.txt is a optional, but active project that only allows the ads publishers verified to publish ads in a website, avoiding bogus advertisements. The ID of the publisher should be added to this file to allow the ads show on the page.
More about this here: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/7441288?hl=en
This is great, but he implementation of it by Forumotion will cause SERIOUS DAMAGE to anyone that use custom ads in they websites, leading to white ads to be shown and lost of revenue.
Currently the Forumotion "ads.txt" file only have the records for the Forumotion adsense ID's and a few additional advertisment partners. However, anyone who have a custom adcode in they website (especially Adsense codes), will now be unable to show they own ads in the website.
Any website in forumotion is now limited to show ONLY the forumotion ads, and not custom one. This applies even for those who pay to disable advertisment using credits (and run they own ad strategy).
Will this be a permanent change?
Somebody should check this quickly, as your company is basically blocking anyone to run they own ads in the forums/websites...
Recently i have notice that Forumotion started to publish the "ads.txt" file in all the domains. For instance: https://help.forumotion.com/ads.txt
This applies to every single forum hosted here... Try in your site to: yourdomain.com/ads.txt
To be honest, this is probably to much technical stuff, and some users may not even care or understand, but this WILL affect anyone who use custom ads. And also will several limit the usage of the service, so is important that someone in Forumotion end see this ASAP.
The ads.txt is a optional, but active project that only allows the ads publishers verified to publish ads in a website, avoiding bogus advertisements. The ID of the publisher should be added to this file to allow the ads show on the page.
More about this here: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/7441288?hl=en
This is great, but he implementation of it by Forumotion will cause SERIOUS DAMAGE to anyone that use custom ads in they websites, leading to white ads to be shown and lost of revenue.
Currently the Forumotion "ads.txt" file only have the records for the Forumotion adsense ID's and a few additional advertisment partners. However, anyone who have a custom adcode in they website (especially Adsense codes), will now be unable to show they own ads in the website.
Any website in forumotion is now limited to show ONLY the forumotion ads, and not custom one. This applies even for those who pay to disable advertisment using credits (and run they own ad strategy).
Will this be a permanent change?
Somebody should check this quickly, as your company is basically blocking anyone to run they own ads in the forums/websites...