Q: Quick question
Welcome!
I was literally looking for an ad management platform this week.
How do you guys compare to advanced ads?
Are there additional addon paid plugins or does this offer include everything?
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Edited Mar 12, 2025A: Hello! Thanks for the question.
We have some overlap with Advanced Ads and similar plugins. The general idea is the same, and the data structure is similar (ads, groups, automatic placements).
Ad Commander's overall interface is a little more WordPress-y. You'll use a regular classic post interface and regular taxonomy interface for managing your ads.
There are a few of the higher-end features available in Advanced Ads that are not in Ad Commander. The ones that I'm aware of are: The ability to sell ads on your site, built-in sticky ads, Google Ad Manager integration, and the ability to create an ad server for other sites. These differences are reflected in our price point (both normally and with this LTD). Sticky ads should arrive somewhat soon, while those other features will be down the road a ways.
Everything currently offered is included with this LTD for Ad Commander Pro - we have no other paid add-ons at this time. Most new features will go into the free or Pro plugin in the future, and will be included with this offer. Exceptions may be the ability to sell ads and an ad server, as those are pretty large plugins themselves, but that is not set in stone at this time.
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Thanks for the comprehensive response. Are you able to share any insights of the impact on site speed your plugin has?
Our tests showed no speed difference when using server-side loading vs having the plugin disabled. With client-side loading, we saw a 9% increase in total page load time. The plugin doesn't load the ads until after the DOM is ready in that scenario. Of course things like caching plugins, number of ads, server specs, etc will all impact it so it's difficult to say anything definitive.