Ads Manager 2 is the new and improved version of Ads Manager 1, designed for XenForo 2. Ads Manager 2 allows you to make money by displaying your own ads or by selling ad spaces on your forum (or both).
There are 11 ad types available:
1. Code
Display HTML/JavaScript ads such as affiliate banners, Amazon product widgets, Adsense, etc. This ad type also supports PHP callback to generate your own custom code.
2. Banners
Display banner ads that you can upload directly or from an external source. You can use multiple images to rotate randomly on each page load.
3. Text
Display text ads with custom title, description and optionally a banner image.
4. Links
Display link ads with custom title. You can use it to build link lists in the forum sidebar or display horizontal links in other places.
5. Keywords
Transform text keywords into links with a tooltip description (optionally). Keyword ads can be enabled in thread posts, conversation messages, profile posts, resource description and in chat messages (Chat 2 add-on). As admin you can use it without link and can also add inline CSS to style the keywords as you want.
6. Affiliate Links
Convert links to affiliate links using 5 link building methods. Optionally you can replace the link anchor text with a custom text. You can also hide the affiliate URL when hovering over the link.
7. Promo Threads
Create/sell promo threads in the forums you want.
8. Sticky Threads
Create/sell sticky threads in the forums you want.
9. Featured Resources
Create/sell featured resources in the categories you want.
10. Popup
Display popup ads in 3 ways: XenForo overlay with title and content, custom popup code and popup window with custom ونافذة .
11. Background
Display a background image as an ad with clickable left and right parts of the image. If you provide multiple background images, they will rotate randomly on each page load.
Popup and background ads can be controlled how often they show up and after how many seconds to display. You can even hide them after x seconds of display.
Code, banner (Custom HTML), text and popup ads support XF template syntax.
There are over 150 default positions and 80 of those are predefined dynamic positions that allows you to display ads between thread posts, conversation posts, profile posts, media items, resources and more.
With Ads Manager you can: