Web Services & Application Store Blog http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices Build Revenue From Your Creativity Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:33:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 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/ 1 App of the week: BMI calculator http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/21/app-of-the-week-bmi-calculator/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/21/app-of-the-week-bmi-calculator/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:09:43 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1190 Sometimes we just have to face the truth – especially after Christmas. We’ve eating and drinking and eating even more. And somehow our belts seem to get a little tighter with every Christmas pudding we have. That’s the point where a disturbing feeling grows in most of us: the fear of checking your weight.

BMI_calculatorWe thought it’s the right time to introduce you to a great widget which we selected as our Christmas “app of the week”: The Body Mass Index calculator widget. Just put it on your site to allow all your visitors to calculate their BMI and earn from it: The widget allows users to put in their weight and height and provides the best matching offer from the zanox catalogue that fits the calculated Body Mass Index.

Okay, for some customers the BMI result might be not be exactly what they want to hear, just as in my case ;) But it’ll definitely push them to do something about it.

It’s really easy to install the widget: Simply get it from our Application Store and configure the language and the region properly. Please note you need to be directly applied to some zanox programmes specified in the Terms and Conditions of the widget in order to have the right products included in the results.

Here is an example of how to configure the widget: Simply replace the following line in your integration code: {‘key’:’value’} with {‘language’:’en’,’region’:’de’} (This gets you the language English and products from German advertisers)

Enjoy the widget, the Christmas dinners and parties and have a great holiday!

your zanox Web Services Team

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/21/app-of-the-week-bmi-calculator/feed/ 4 Barracuda mail application for nordic countries http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/18/barracuda-mail-application-for-nordic-countries/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/18/barracuda-mail-application-for-nordic-countries/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:04:17 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1198 Our partner Media by Gordon G. AB just launched in our Application Store Barracuda mail. Some of you will remenber Media by Gordon, they in fact took part to the Web Service contest of last year and reached the final round as one of the most promising top 10 companies.

Barracuda mail is a simple email marketing tool for our publishers in Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Barracura mailHow does it work? You simply upload in their system your logo and your contacts data like email addresses and so on, and they will send your contacts email with zanox advertisement in revenue share of 50%.

You will be always in control of the language used in the emails, on how many emails are sent to your contacts and always be able to remove the data from the system itself.

You want to know more? Check the documentation or directly get the application here.

your web service team

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/18/barracuda-mail-application-for-nordic-countries/feed/ 3 App of the week: Recommander http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/14/app-of-the-week-recommander/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/14/app-of-the-week-recommander/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:25:24 +0000 Francesco Votta http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/?p=1180 X-Mas is coming and you want to suggest presents to your friends? Are you full of ideas and want an easy way to tell them what to buy? Or even simply let them discover coupons and offers available now in the zanox network?

Nothing is more easy thanks to recommander.

Recommander is a facebook application that lets users search for products, post the links in their profile and send dedicated messages to friends.

RecommanderAs publisher you can also find coupons and start using your facebook profile as a recommendation marketing tool.

The promise is: Be a Recommander and share promoted Products, Vouchers & Shopping News with your friends on Facebook. A Facebook Account is required in order to become a Recommander.

Hope you enjoy the “App of the week” series

your zanox Web Service team

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/webservices/2009/12/14/app-of-the-week-recommander/feed/ 0 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

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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

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