Of all the components that are supplied by Adobe the one that is missing is an Ads component. Something we can drop into our Flex/AIR apps to display ads and make some money off our work.

Here’s how I would see it working:

• I would sign up with Adobe, just as I would with Google Ads, for an affiliate account
• Then all I need to do is place the ad component in my app and give it my affiliate number
• I could also use data binding to feed it keywords to target the ad content
• I could specify certain ad attributes: media type – text, Flash, video, etc.
• Both me and Adobe Make some money

The component would also need to know if it’s in an AIR app and if so then cache some ads in case the user is offline. Then if the user clicks on an ad in offline mode the component would have to store that click and inform the user that they will get more info when they go back online. Or something like that.

The upshot is that Adobe becomes an ad server and will make money off it. Plus we developers will be able to easily place ads in our work and make some money so that we won’t have to work for the man.

Yes, you could do this would Google ads but it would take some work. Wouldn’t you rather have a nice component built by Adobe?