10up

Jeffrey Paul

Gary Thayer

David Green

There is always a drive for more page views to bring more ad impressions, but publishers can often leverage their current traffic and ad slots in order to further increase ad impressions by refreshing the ad slots after a given amount of time.
Previously this required a site’s ad implementation code be modified, but not every publisher has the budget or engineers to enable this. Now with the 10up Ad Refresh Control Plugin publishers can enable the refreshing of their ads without needing to make any modifications to their existing ad implementation.
The increase in impressions will vary from site to site, depending largely on how quickly visitors scroll and how long they spend on each page. Impressions can often be improved with the use of sticky ads, allowing an ad(s) to be sticky on the screen and have a better chance of being visible long enough to be refreshed, but enabling the 10up Ad Refresh Control Plugin will allow publishers to get started immediately.
A settings page will allow adjustments such as the time between refreshes, the maximum number of refreshes, and even list advertisers who would not be happy if their ads were refreshed, but smart defaults will be active for all settings out of the box so you can feel safe activating the plugin without consulting an ads expert first.

Ad Refresh Control

Enable Active View refresh for Google Ad Manager ads without needing to modify any code.

Thomas Maier

WPAds is a free plugin for showing and managing ads on your WordPress site. It works very similarly to other ad servers, but because of its limited functionality, it is much easier to use.
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Please read before updating
This is a fixed version of WPAds which was not hosted on wordpress.org before. 
 I updated this plugin to work for existing users with a newer version of WordPress, but would suggest new users to use <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-ads/" rel="ugc">a better ad management plugin</a>. 
 Please, don’t update if you don’t use at least WordPress 4.7.
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The main concepts of WPAds are zones and banners. After creating zones you can insert these ad positions in your template or in your posts, e.g. as positions for ads in header, sidebar or content. Than create some banners, paste the ad code you want to display and assign them to your ad zones. WPAds will serve your ads randomly to those positions. The rotation is based on a variable weight of your ads.
WPAds can show different ad formats (HTML, JS; PHP, Image ads) and support ad networks like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publishers Network, Amazon or Chikita.
Features:
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<li>shortcodes for injection into posts and templates</li>
<li>unlimited ads</li>
<li>unlimited zones</li>
<li>ad rotation</li>
<li>ad weight</li>
<li>impression counter</li>
<li>max. views per banner</li>
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WPAds

WPAds is a simple and light weight ad manager for WordPress.

Ad Refresh Control vs WPAds