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We are really proud to announce today’s Open Beta launch of our new zanox Application Store, the world’s first application store for the affiliate marketing industry! Starting now, you can explore the zanox Application Store and discover new and powerful tools for your business: As one of our publishers or advertisers, you will be able to discover ready-to-use applications, widgets and software services. As a developer, you can now monetise your innovations and distribute your applications directly to our network of more than one million publishers and over 2,000 international advertisers.

Getting curious? To get a first impression of the zanox Application Store, check out our new video:

Along with the zanox Application Store, we also launched our new single sign-on solution zanox Connect, which enables smooth and easy application integration. This process is similar to what you already know from platforms such as Facebook: Once logged-in, you can easily use an application via just one click.

Since the application offer in our store will grow steadily, we implemented a quality benchmark system: Our established zanox AdRank will show how the applications are performing and a star-ranking system as well as a comment function indicates the level of satisfaction from previous users.

Last but not least, launching our new Application Store also means entering phase two of our $2 Million zanox Application Store Contest! Contestants can now start uploading their applications and take their contributions to the next contest level. Learn more about the contest on our Web Services Blog.

Two of our German pre-testers, the team Karsten Windfelder and Frank Schulze, already published a detailed review on their blog 100partnerprogramme.de. “The zanox Application Store as a market place for developers, affiliates and merchants is simply ingenious – and I really wonder why nobody has come up with this idea before. It shows the network’s fast-growing, future-oriented development, which zanox has been going through, especially in the last two years,” Frank writes, calling the zanox Application Store a “milestone for the affiliate industry”.  You can read the full review here (in German).

For more information, check out our zanox Application Store Wiki documentation and the Q & A for answers to the most frequently asked questions. Enjoy exploring our new zanox Application Store!

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.

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 review here (in German).

If you want to know more about zanox Web Services, have a look at the zanox Web Services Blog, the Wiki documentation or the new Web Services Landingpage.

You are a zanox publisher and you want to win a Macbook Air or one of these funny talking W-LAN Nabaztag rabbits? Then go ahead and take part in our zanox publisher online survey! It would be great if you could invest a couple of minutes so we can get to know you and your needs better.

We need your honest opinion and feedback so we can improve our products and services according to your wants and needs. And no worries – this survey shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete, and of course the data will be evaluated anonymously and confidentially.

We count on you and your help! If you want to take part in the publisher survey and win one of our cool prizes, you can start the questionnaire here: www.zanox.com/survey. It will be online until 12 January 2009.

Thanks a bunch for your help and good luck with our lottery!

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