Web Services & Application Store Blog

Dear publishers, as already announced on the 26th of October we are going to stop supporting our old deprecated ZDK interface.

For the ones that are still in process of migrating here you are a couple of useful links and also a PHP and a .NET client to help you.

1) Overview of the new Web Service interface

2) Get an overview of the zanox Connect protocol and to see how to retrive the zanoxKeys

3) Mapping table form the old and the new API interface

4) PHP client

5) .Net client

We announced on 27 March 2009 the Web Services launch and ZDK end of life and reminded you on 15 April 2009 with the announcement “ZDK shutdown begins“.

The zanox Web Services team concentrated all its resources on further development of our new Web Services and we will have to close down the old ZDK publisher features by the 26 October 2009.

Last week we launched a new version of the Web Services with full coverage of the publisher ZDK use cases. Go get an overview of this web services package.

In addition to help you with migrating to the new zanox Web Services we are pleased to provide you with a migration scheme: http://wiki.zanox.com/en/ZDK_Migration

The time is going by faster you can imagine, so migrate – the earlier the better.

As announced on March 27th, 2009 35 ZDK methods are shutdown by today.

Please refer to the migration scheme in our wiki to learn how to migrate from the shutdown ZDK methods to the corresponding zanox Web Services methods.

• CountTrackingData


• GetAdServers


• GetAdServerStatisticByDay


• GetAdServerStatisticByMonth


• GetAdServerStatisticByWeek


• GetAdServerStatisticByYear


• GetAllContentProviders


• GetAllTrackingCategories


• GetClicksByAdMedia


• GetClicksByHour


• GetClicksByProgram


• GetClicksTotal


• GetContentProviderByProgram


• GetContentProviders


• GetCreatedTransactions


• GetCreatedTransactionsByProgram


• GetHistory


• GetMasterAdSpaces


• GetMerchantProductData


• GetMyShopAts


• GetPartnerValue


• GetPartnerValues


• GetProductdataStatus


• GetProductOffers


• GetProgramId


• GetPrograms


• GetTopSellers


• GetTrackingCategoriesByProgram


• GetTrackingData


• GetTrackingTypes


• GetWebsiteId


• GetWebsites


• MethodsList


• SearchProductOffers


• Version

If have any questions please don’t hesitate to send us a mail to webservices@zanox.com. We hope that you will like the new zanox Web Services as much as we do.

Will inform you about further migration steps in this blog.

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo our CEO Thomas Hessler officially launched the $2.0 Mio zanox Application Store Contest 2009. The start-up contest, which we hold together with the M&A advisory company Corporate Finance Partners, will award the winning business model(s) an investment of up to two million US-Dollars for the best monetizing application based on zanox Web Services.

As announced during the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Service Contest 2008 Winner Ceremony at the zanox GAP Campus, hosted by zanox and Corporate Finance Partners, we want to give start-ups a second opportunity to successfully monetize their business models with zanox Web Services in various ways.

• Monetise your existing widgets or application for Facebook, iPhone, iGoogle or any other platform


• Develop new internet or mobile innovations and generate a considerable volume of well-converting traffic into leads or sales


• Earn from innovation via the zanox Application Store


• Convince the contest jury and win up to $2 million venture capital for your business model

Everyone from all over the world is invited to register for the contest. For additional information also check out the zanox Web Services Documentation Wiki.

Good luck and enjoy monetising!

In February zanox launched the new zanox Web Services to help our publishers to monetize their innovative business ideas. To get an overview of our new zanox Web Services and what you can do with it, please have a look at the related post.

The new zanox Web Services allow you to access a full set of resources and to automate your interaction with the zanox system. This helps you to optimize the targeting of your customers thanks to the new and more evolved product search mechanisms.

Please note that, in order to concentrate all our resources on further developing our new Web Services, we will have to close down the old ZDK features within the first half of 2009.

This process will be executed in phases: The first phase will start on 15 April 2009 when we will switch off the methods with very limited usage in the last year. Click here to see the list of the deprecated methods.

Further information on the following phases will follow soon.

To help you with migrating to new zanox Web Services we are pleased to provide you with a migration scheme.

By clicking on the following links you can get a full overview of the documentation for the new zanox Web Services:

1. Web Services Documentation


2. Learn how to take part


3. Use the ready made Client Libraries

If there is anything we can do to help you, please feel free to drop us a note at webservices@zanox.com. We hope that you will like the new Web Services as much as we do.

Our Web Services team has worked really hard over the last couple of months and finally THE day has come: Today we launched the open beta of zanox Web Services! Some of you might be wondering what you can do with zanox Web Services and how you can benefit from the new features. So here you go: First of all zanox Web Services are an innovative solution for both, web developers and our professional publishers. Web Services offer you access to a wide variety of new functions within our affiliate network and our infrastructure. Have a look at our Web Services video to learn more:

With zanox Web Services, you will now benefit from three key advantages when it comes to monetising your business ideas: a new automated process for managing your interaction with zanox, specific targeting opportunities including product search, geo targeting and contextual product matching, and the freedom to create your own innovative monetising models such as mobile applications or widgets. If you want to learn more about Web Services in practice, have a look at our showcases.

The fully automated interaction process will save you a lot of time and effort in your daily work: A wide number of new functionalities allow customised statistics, programme applications, payments and most recent product data to be retrieved automatically several times per day. Your direct access to our infrastructure includes profiles, adspaces, programmes, products, admedia, reports, payment details and ready-to-use applications. You will also be able to specifically target your customers with our features such as product search, geo targeting and contextual product matching. And last but not least you are now free to use your own creativity to develop, distribute and monetise your own business model. This could be an internet or mobile application, widgets, gadgets or even video or in-game advertising. And by the way, our technology supports two Web Services APIs: SOAP API and RESTful API, which also supports XML and JSON.

Two of our German closed beta testers, the team Karsten Windfelder and Frank Schulze, already published a detailed review on their blog 100partnerprogramme.de. “It’s a pleasant development that more and and more affiliate networks offer Web Services. They allow useful applications to be developed, updating one’s website in real time and the external evaluation of statistics,” Frank writes. “For the open beta launch, zanox Web Services look really good.”   Read the full test review here (in German).

Important Links:

• zanox Web Services Landingpage


• zanox Web Services Showcases


• zanox Wiki Web Services Documentation


• zanox Official Blog


• zanox Affiliate Marketing

Shoptainment did it right. Inviting the zanox Monetization team to the FU Berlin profund Business & Beer get together helps to get immediate personal support. Finally they made it into the TOP 20 of the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Services Contest 2008.

In order to use the zanox Web Services with PHP zanox released a PHP API Client Toolkit.

To accelerate your development efforts we provide a PHP API Client that you can download and use to simplify monetization of your application.

Please see the wiki for how to install and use this official zanox PHP API client.

On Thursday, Seprember 4th members of the zanox Web Services und Monetization 2.0 teams met Till Vollmer from mindmeister.com, one of more than 100 attendees of the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Services Contest. Us zanoxies were stunned by Till’s presentation of his idea for the the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Services Contest. We were able to provide answers to Till ’s questions on the zanox business model for performance based affiliate marketing. The developers of the zanox Web Services Team were glad to get feedback on and inspirations for the zanox Web Service s that will shotly be launched in the Open Beta phase.

It was an inspiring and interesting meeting for all members on the zanox GAP Campus. The zanox Web Services Team foresees a great contest event and crosses their fingers for Till’s idea . Our Campus is open 24/7 and we are looking forward to seeing you very soon!

On July 12th the zanox GAP Campus was a busy place. More than 80 Web 2.0 insiders, entrepreneurs, developers, and visionaries and 7 zanoxees met to discuss a wide range of topics around the monetization of the Web 2.0. In 17 sessions as different things were discussed as Landing Pages, Connecting Content & Commerce in Web 2.0, zanox Web Services, Inflight & Internet, ePayment, and Business models for Performance Marketing.

The event was organized as a Theme Camp; a derivative of the BarCamps. Monetization 2.0 served as the frame – the content was provided by the participants. The event started off with a keynote by Thomas Hessler, CEO zanox on How to monetize web 2.0 applications and win 1,000,000 EUR Venture Capital. After that the cruical moment came: the Monetization 2.0 Camp organiser Sebastian Wallroth, generously supported by Oliver Berger and Tobias Kaufmann, called for participation. Within 5 minutes all slots were booked – the wonder of BarCamps happened again.

The atmosphere of the Monetization 2.0 Camp was very open, innovative and inspirational. The zanox Open Space with free Wifi and an excellent catering supported this.

We would like to thank several companies from the Web 2.0 szene for the great support: nugg.add – predictive behavioral targeting, Institut für Industrielle Softwaretechniken, Mobizcorp, AdiCash, Spreefactory.de, TowerByte eG, BestSideStory, 1,000,000 EUR zanox Web Services Contest 2008, saftblog.de, puretea.de, deineschokolade.com, betreut.de, and MITTEeins.de.

The media coverage was controverse. In response to the podcast – Interview at the Monetization2.0Camp in Berlin by pixelsebi one denounced the product placement of the 1,000,000 EUR zanox Web Services Contest 2008. The Seonauten Blog on the other hand would have liked more participants and more detailed sessions. Die kleine Miss Waldfee loved the event and had particularly a warm thank you for the organizer. Christian Boris Schmidt was one of the presenters at the Monetization 2.0 Camp and gave a very positive feedback on the ecato blog. On fragr.de Björn Koblow blogged in detail about his experiences from the Monetization 2.0 Camp.