Advertising via e-mail

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Posted by The Spook, 07-10-2009, 12:57 PM
I have a free service where users subscribe to a newsletter. I would like to include a small text advertisement at the bottom of the newsletter, similar to what MS Live Mail does. I'm wondering if there is a slick way to do this out there with PHP. It's easy for things like AdSense because you just link to the JavaScript, but I need the ability to read a random ad feed and then display the title and URL, like so: In summary, is there an AdSense-type service for e-mail?
Posted by intellitech, 07-10-2009, 01:42 PM
I think you may have answered own question - you can have custom server-side insertion code (like AdSense written for you), which you can then just add as a jscript code into your mail - using PHP and random generator to select the advert to be inserted. A good place for ideas - www.dynamicdrive.com/ Hope that helps ...
Posted by ThatScriptGuy, 07-10-2009, 01:54 PM
Um, I don't think many mail clients are going to like you including javascript in your emails. I imagine the best way would be to append your text to each email as it exits the mail server...but this isn't my area, so take my advice with a grain of salt.