Banners/Ads rotating system

What are the criteria? Based on what you’ve said so far, there’s no need for an add-on. Channel Entries can handle those requirements.

There are 2 criteria for advertising blocks: show a certain number of times, or show up to a specific date. And rotate advertising block content if there are 2+ commercial entries for that advertising block (with different settings: the first commercial should be shown 1000 times and the second one should be shown up to a specific date).

I looked for 3rd party addons just because of user-friendly settings pane for commercial content (show mode: show count or date; content management etc…) — template hardcode is the risky way to manage this blocks (I can be wrong here).

I’m uncertain of what you mean by “template hardcode is the risky way to manage this”, but if you should be able to use entry view tracking along with the relaxed_track_views config override, since your single entry ads being served by a channel entries tag would not have its URL title in the address.

See: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/general/system_configuration_overrides.html#relaxed-track-views

I’m uncertain of what you mean by “template hardcode is the risky way to manage this”…

I mean it’s too risky to give access to the template code to the manager who should manage commercial blocks/entries just with content (text, image) and settings (number of views or up to date for different commercials) and who is not a programmer.

Thanks, will learn about relaxed track views.

But looks like I start to understand the idea: the manager can use entries custom fields to set the specific characteristics. Will try this stuff. Thanks for the response, Derek!

Gotcha, and absolutely, you don’t want to give them template access. You should be able to set up what is needed with custom fields, entry / expiration dates, etc.