Web Services & Application Store Blog » web services http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices Build Revenue From Your Creativity Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:45:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fnac: advanced Admedia via the Application Store http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/03/03/fnac-advanced-admedia-via-the-application-store/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/03/03/fnac-advanced-admedia-via-the-application-store/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:40:20 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1399 The Application Store has once again been used by advertisers to provide new types of customised admedia. Our colleague in France built for Fnac.com an admedia selector tool to enable each publisher to customise his own selection and enable different formats.

The way it works is simple: you choose a format, choose the admedias you want, order them as you like and finally get the code to paste in your site. Quick and easy. Only publishers approved by Fnac.com can use the widget and it is provided only for the French market. Do you meet the requirements? Then simply get the Admedia here.

If you are an agency or an Advertiser, please contact us for help turning on your publishers in the same way.

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/03/03/fnac-advanced-admedia-via-the-application-store/feed/ 1 One-click shopping: javengo.Direct-Checkout for Jochen Schweizer http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/02/10/javengo-direct-checkout-for-jochen-schweizer/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/02/10/javengo-direct-checkout-for-jochen-schweizer/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:26:20 +0000 Pepe http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1273 Here’s an application that has already gotten a lot of good feedback, and everyone who’s seen it has had an “aha!” moment: it’s easy to imagine this application increasing conversion rates.

The concept is simple: a publisher describes a product in detail, and offers a one-click-purchase button with the description. Instead of re-directing the user to a web store—where the user could lose interest in the course of being asked to register or when faced with a change of site—an overlay opens on the publisher site. In this overlay, the user enters his personal and payment data and purchases the product immediately.

When the purchase is complete, the overlay closes and the user remains on the publisher’s site, a big attraction for publishers. And with the one-click link, advertisers will be happy to see their customers and the sale of their products brought a few steps closer together.

For now, the application can be configured for a wide array of Jochen Schweizer products, but the application provider javengo plans to customize it for any interested zanox advertisers (click here for more information and a demo). zanox Web Services provided business and legal consulting to javengo, and we’d like to remind you that such consulting is a vital part of the Web Services mission statement.

To get started with javengo.Direct-Checkout, click here.

Your zanox Web Service team

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/02/10/javengo-direct-checkout-for-jochen-schweizer/feed/ 2 DieKritiker: monetise your reviews http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/02/03/diekritiker-monetise-your-reviews/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/02/03/diekritiker-monetise-your-reviews/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:16:43 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1258 Die Kritiker is a new service offered by our publisher Affilinator GmbH. The website diekritiker.com is a social news portal featuring user-generated reviews for a wide range of categories, including technology, finance, vacation, and health. Users with a zanox publisher account can now associate a review they’ve written with a zanox product using zanox ad media, and the full share of any revenue subsequently generated by a sale of the product.

The service is currently only available for German publishers but is coming soon to other countries. Get it here!

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With just a bit of configuration our publishers can in fact select one of the programs they are applied to and transform all their product data into a Google AdWords campaign. This application is provided for free in this phase. You can find the documentation here and get the application directly clicking here.

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/01/28/generads-sem-application/feed/ 2 Advertiser Picker: simplify your publishing life http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/01/18/advertiser-picker-how-to-simplify-your-publishing-life/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/01/18/advertiser-picker-how-to-simplify-your-publishing-life/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:29:55 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1057 Advertiser Picker is the application that many of our professional, high-traffic publishers have been waiting for: a simple way to search, filter, and apply to multiple programs in just a few clicks.

How does it work?

After selecting the adspace with which you want to apply, you can filter programs by region and program categories. From the resulting list, you select the programs you want, review your selections (there’s a popup for each program which displays AdRank, Description, etc.), and apply. After you confirm that you have read the Terms & Conditions for each program, the Advertiser Picker applies to the programs you selected and shows you a report with the status of all your applications.

That’s it! Whether you’ve applied for 2 or 200 programs, within 2 minutes you can be finished and on to the next task in your busy day.

To get started, visit the Application Store.

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2010/01/18/advertiser-picker-how-to-simplify-your-publishing-life/feed/ 2 Ad4mat Service by advanced STORE GmbH for German publishers http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/09/ad4mat-service-by-advanced-store-gmbh-for-german-publishers/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/09/ad4mat-service-by-advanced-store-gmbh-for-german-publishers/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:54:16 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1161 We are pleased to announce that our VIP publisher advanced STORE has just launched a new service in the zanox Application Store.

The new ad4mat service offers publishers professional widgets to load admedia across multiple advertisers in order to provide targeted comparison advertising.

screen-ad4mat-360°-adPublishers can choose between simple Ad Rotation, Top Promotions, Automotive, Christmas Shopping, DSL and Mobile promotions.

Also a hot topic is the interactive widget called “T-Home Entertain Berater” that leads website users to find the right IPTV product. A must have for movie, TV, internet tariff websites and blogs (WP plugin available) that want to boost sales with the highly commissioned T-Home Entertain products.entertainberater

The Service is offered only to German publishers who have applied to the advanced STORE zanox Program.

Would you like to know more? Just click here

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/09/ad4mat-service-by-advanced-store-gmbh-for-german-publishers/feed/ 1 App of the week: Wordpress plugin http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/08/app-of-the-week-worldpress-plugin/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/08/app-of-the-week-worldpress-plugin/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:27:25 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1153 For today’s “App of the week”, we are going to talk about our Wordpress plugins. In our Application Store we have two wordpress plugins: one developed by zanox and one developed by one of our publishers.

zanox Worldpress pluginThe zanox Wordpress plugin allows the configuration of the sales region as well as a minimum and maximum price for products. You can even select specific advertisers and product categories for an optimal selection of products that will be displayed within the search result list. Additionally, you can configure how many products should be displayed and if they should be displayed above or underneath the search results on your blog.

Worldpress pluginThe external Wordpress plugin instead extends your posts with contextual product links. You can select the quantity of links, the region of shops and decide where the links should be displayed (above/below the blog entry itself).

Enjoy trying out our Wordpress plugins!

Your zanox Web Service team

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/08/app-of-the-week-worldpress-plugin/feed/ 0 First advertiser-created applications now available in Store: Opodo & earthTV.com release video widgets http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/02/first-advertiser-created-applications-now-available-in-store-opodo-earthtv-com-release-video-widgets/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/02/first-advertiser-created-applications-now-available-in-store-opodo-earthtv-com-release-video-widgets/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:20:04 +0000 Pepe http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1119 Opodo-Widget-Screenshot33

Advertisers’ enthusiasm for the Application Store is growing daily, and advertisers are among the quickest to understand its implications for their business. One of the main selling points of the Store is that it is a platform for advertisers to provide advanced adMedia directly to their publishers.

Taking advantage of this new opportunity, Germany’s online travel service Opodo.de – together with the worldwide TV camera network earthTV.com – has created the Store’s first advertiser-created applications. Visitors to affiliate sites can now see high-quality videos for 55 travel destinations worldwide, including views of Niagara Falls, the streets of New York, the London riverside or Munich’s Olympia Stadium. Updates with live webcam pictures and weather data are automatically provided on the landing page.

Opodo’s award-winning price-comparison is integrated as well (see http://bit.ly/5tUM4K).

In an example of ‘Joint Affiliate Marketing’, Opodo and earthTV.com have united their two services into one single affiliate programme in order to provide a stronger service to customers and affiliates.

“Our affiliates will benefit from this innovative cooperation”, says Tom Reiter, Country Director Opodo Germany. Florian Lormes, Director Sales & Marketing at earthTV.com, adds: “People planning a journey usually strive for inspiration by means of pictures, look for weather information and compare prices. Our widget combines all of it with just a few clicks.”

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Want to try the first advertiser-created applications?

– Your Web Services Team


]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/02/first-advertiser-created-applications-now-available-in-store-opodo-earthtv-com-release-video-widgets/feed/ 1 App of the Week: myCashBacky http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/01/app-of-the-week-mycashbacky/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/01/app-of-the-week-mycashbacky/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:48:10 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1111 As part of our “app of the week” series, we are going to introduce you to myCashbacky today.

mycashbackyMyCashbacky allows you to create a white labeled cashback platform on your website in a extremely easy way. By activating this application, each affiliate will be able to start his own cashback channel. An easy panel allows you to customize the layout, background and logo in order to mantain the original site look and feel. In addition you will not need to care about hosting and paying your customers – you simply need to wait for your revenues.

The application is configured as a master account at zanox – meaning that you will receive 50% of the commissions while the rest will go to the developers of Triboo. They will use it to pay out your customers with 40%. The remaining 10% will be kept by Triboo.

Please note that the sales will not be visible immediately in your statistics, but will appear in the “your account” section once the sales are confirmed.

Want to earn money just with a few clicks? Then kick-off with myCashbacky by clicking here!

your Web Services Team

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/01/app-of-the-week-mycashbacky/feed/ 1 App of the week: SEO Text Create http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/11/24/app-of-the-week-seo-text-create/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/11/24/app-of-the-week-seo-text-create/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:21:02 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1098 Our “App of the week” blog series continues. This week we are happy to talk about a whole new kind of application, “People as a Service”, provided by humangrid.

hgWhat is humangrid: humangrid is an international, managed and paid crowdsourcing-platform. Over 10.000 so called Clickworkers are ready to work for you on demand.

This can be very useful in all cases that are hard to automate. One example is the creation and modification of content, especially free text, like, as one example, product descriptions.

The first service is already available as applications in the zanox Application Store.

“SEO text create” lets publishers ask the humangrid service to create unique, search engine optimized texts for use on your website. Publishers will need to explain briefly the topic and length of the text, which keywords you would like to have included, how often, and which language you would like the text to be in, as the service is international and all major european languages are supported.

A second upcoming service will be “Product description create” that will let advertisers and publishers create product descriptions. In this case users will just supply a web link to a product page and ask the Clickworkers to supply a new, unique product description for the product shown on that website. Also available in various lengths and languages the normal turnaround time will be only a few hours.

You can find the application here. Enjoy!

Your zanox Web Service team

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