Question about using frequency setting to limit House Ads visibility

[ked (Kenny DuBose)]

@neil

Right now, house ads will always show instead of other configured ad networks. I’m not sure what the rules here should be.

At this writing I see a setting labeled House ads frequency which I am hoping / guessing was an attempt to actually provide for cycling in a particular ad slot - of which I think is an excellent feature. I just edited this from the defarult 100% to 50%, but I’m afraid nothing changed for me - the House Ad still displayed 100% of the time.

Am I missing something, or am I simply confused on the use of that setting?v

[Moin]

I think the purpose of the setting is to show house ads and ads from another provider in the same spot.

There is a feature request for adding what you expected the setting to do:

Allow reducing house ad frequency

Can the “house ads frequency” setting be used (set to less that 100 percent) when no other ad platforms are configured? I’m only running house–ads, and I don’t want them always appearing; I want a house ad to appear some of the time, and when one does appear, I have a variety of them configured. I’m doing this because I don’t want people to “stop seeing” the portion of the page/display where the ad sits. I want there to be some unusualness to the appearance of a house ad. What I’ve done is con…

I think, at the moment, the only solution would be to add ‘invisible ads’:

Reduce ad frequency for all ads?

The easiest trick I can think of is to create a number of blank ads (<span></span>) and make sure they amount for the remaining ad inventory for the spot (in this case that would be 40%). So if you have three different ads, add two blank ones.