Hi Bruce!

I'm not sure based on your post just which fields and data you need, but I can suggest a few things to see what helps.

Firstly, in Statistics -> Analytics -> Ad Manager there are a few different reports that show "ads by date" or "ads by position." These can be exported in a CSV format, and may help will billing integration.

In addition, there is the capability to attach an ad to a business (even if you don't own our Business Directory product) and produce reports specific to that business. These reports actually have the ad previewed on the report.

You can set up these reports to produce PDFs, HTML or even just emailed reports. You can also set up the emailed reports to send automatically every month to your online salesperson, or directly to the advertiser.

If you are looking for a "tear sheet" type functionality that will show ads on the actual page running live, that's not something we have currently. I don't think most publishers are producing this kind of "proof" for their online ads - I think they show impressions and clicks in a report.

Let me know if any of this helps! Thanks!

The fix for this should be released next week.

Actually we've been discussing that. Facebook does this on Instant Articles (puts an ad every X paragraphs) and it actually increases your ad count but isn't obnoxious. I will see if we can get this in as an option.

I ended up talking myself into this as I typed it... I think it would work. I put in a feature request for this - but feel free to add ideas still! =)

Hey guys,

I could use some help thinking this through.

So would it be enough if I just said, "Set the minimum number of paragraphs for a story to show multiple ads." If you set it to 5 paragraphs, then it would only show ONE in-story ad. Unless you had six paragraphs, then it would attempt to show all 3 ads.

Right now the default is 2. If there is only one paragraph, we show 1 ad. If there are 2 paragraphs, we show all three ads (as in Paul's screenshot).

Would that work for you?

I do want to address this - it is also a pet peeve of mine. But, I wouldn't want to change the logic on ads without a site being able to OPT into that decision (so they would know why their numbers changed).

We have now released this change - and articles with now show the publication date and the updated date.

I think we should also add the TIME, which we left off on this pass. Let me know what you guys think!