Hooking everything up in v3

The Product

Json / xml web services enable useful data feeds to be accessed (providing the requestor has sufficient priveleges to do so). Add website to marketplace directly (rather than having to login to an account on OIOpublisher.com).

The Marketplace

Brings together all the data collected from each install, making it searchable. Advertisers channelled towards websites / ads they are interested in purchasing. Advertisers able to manage purchases centrally, via the marketplace, as well as from the individual publisher websites.

Marketplace is promoted via a communal advertising fund. Flat monthly fee for marketplace participation, used to funnel traffic through the marketplace. Allows direct sales to continue, but with added bonus of more advertisers.

Data Exchange

When a purchase is made, a copy is stored centrally, allowing for advertisers to manage ads via the marketplace. When an installation’s settings are updated, a cron job will push the new settings data to the marketplace (eg. after 60 minutes).

General purpose cron-job running on all OIO installs, tells the marketplace OIO is still up and running. If nothing is heard for 3 days, disable site from marketplace and notify user by email.

Web Services*

(1) Ad – all details about the ad

(2) Ad Zone – all details about the ad zone (including ad data)

(3) Advertiser – ad purchase data, filtered by email address(es)

(4) All Settings – contains all ad zone data (no ad data), as well as other settings (eg. pay methods)

* access to any personal / sensitive data requires an API key