Ad Tracking

[coldpopper]

This is my first time working with Ad Tracking in Flash and I want to make sure
I'm going about it correctly.. I can't test it on my side, so I want to know
it's right when I pass it on to the client.

I've gone through the tutorials on Adobe and here's what I'm working with:
Rather than attaching the clickTAG function to a specific object, I've added
it to the code (on click function) in the 1st frame of the document as such:

function doClick():Void {
getURL("clientsurlishere", "_blank");
if (clickTAG.substr(0,5) == "http:") {
getURL(clickTAG);
}
}

..since I don't have a way to test it (or do I?), is this going to work? Or
does it actually have to be attached to the object? It's set up so that a few
movies and images within the document are clickable (which is why it was
better, and easier to update in the future, to set up the code in the 1st frame
rather than on each object).

[flashParadigm]

Can I ask why you have two getURL in the function? one for clientsurlhere and one for clicTAG?

[jeepguy]

I'd suggest using the following if you're hard coding the url in the ad.
"clickBtn" is the btn instance name.

clickBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(clickTAG + "http:%252f%252fwww.someURL.com", "_blank");
};

If you're going to pass in the click urls via FlashVars in the html wrapper
then you can use this way.

clickBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(clickTAG, "_blank");
};

The clickTAG is just a variable that's accepted to use for ads for
consistency. I'm not sure of the ad system that you'll be using or the redirect
that will be attached to the clickTAG variable but here's a way you can test
it. Use the last example above w/o the hard coded click url and in the
FlashVars in the html wrapper code create a new one called
FlashVars="clickTAG=http://www.someURL.com". If you test it and it goes through
to the site then it will work once the adsystem ads it's redirect or flash
wrapper code to the swf.

Also as stated in the previous post having the two getURLs will open up a new
window plus replace the existing one as you have it.

Hope this helps you out.