Hi list,
We've come up against an interesting problem - perhaps a few folks
on this list have some insight...
My employer provides third party online advertising services across
Canada and into the U.S. One of our value-adds is a verification service
which renders pages on which our ads appear so clients are able to
verify that the ads they've paid for are appearing in the correct place
at the correct time. This service essentially takes a screenshot of a
page (webkit) and saves it for later review so clients are able to see
how a page looked at a specific point in time.
The problem we are running into is with geotargeted advertisements -
our server farm is located in Toronto, and therefore cannot see anything
targeted to a different region. We've been tasked with providing this
service for geotargeted campaigns across the continent - folks want to
see how our advertisements are appearing in any one of a multitude of
provinces and states. Of course, we do not have servers physically
located anywhere but Toronto and LA, so this creates a problem.
We've looked at a few options - proxy services, VPN services, cloud
computing, ARIN SWIP changes, talking to the geolocation providers, and
we're in talks with a few network providers to see if some network kung
fu can make this work, but we haven't yet found a magic bullet.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can retrieve webpages from
arbitrary locations, or somehow fool the major geolocation databases,
and make this work at a state or province level of precision?
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