zanox Official Blog » zanox company http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox Inside the mind of the global alliance Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 zanox goes Silicon Valley for WebPlay http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/21/zanox-goes-silicon-valley-for-webplay/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/21/zanox-goes-silicon-valley-for-webplay/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:21:03 +0000 Alexandra Lilienthal http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1421 Sunny greetings from Sunnyvale. Yesterday zanox co-hosted the WebPlay at PlugandPlayTechCenter. We kicked off the day with an European Business Breakfast. Besides the country managers introducing their regions, local markets and social media trends, there was still plenty of time for networking.
Later Thomas led a panel on Crowd Sourcing. Panelists Yaniv Ben-Saadon, CEO of Fixya and Fabien Degaugue, Founder & CEO of PeerPong talked about monetization of crowd sourcing platforms and the audience asked questions via twitter that the panel addressed such as: What motives the crowd?, What can’t be outsourced? and How does the crowd feel about companies making money out of them?
View all tweets here.

In the late afternoon everyone got together for German beer and German-style food for more networking and good music.

Overall this was another great event in Silicon Valley zanox participated in – thanks PlugandPlay-Team!

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/21/zanox-goes-silicon-valley-for-webplay/feed/ 0 Speed up your Christmas business http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/17/speed-up-your-christmas-business/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/17/speed-up-your-christmas-business/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:47:16 +0000 Ines Ackermann http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1385 xmas_businessJust in time for the hot phase of the Christmas business, we have introduced faster payout periods for several hundred of our international top publishers. Starting now, they will receive payouts from their activities every 10 days up until 31 January 2010 – just as our publishers with an AdRank 6 or more do already. Partners who fulfill the criteria to benefit from our faster payout process have already received an e-mail from us.

Especially during peak seasons like Christmas, affiliate programmes with a short confirmation time are way more attractive to publishers than others. So also as an advertiser, you can benefit from speeding up your Christmas business: The faster you approve transactions, and the shorter you set your auto confirmation time, the more money your publishers can reinvest into promoting your programmes, and the more attractive your programmes and promotions will become for other publishers too.

Advertisers who reduce their confirmation time significantly may let us know, so that we can point our publishers especially to those programmes.

The confirmation time is also one criterion for our selected Christmas offers: The weekly round-up of the most promising campaigns helps publishers finding out which advertisers offer the most attractive Christmas promotions, which products promise the greatest success or which ad media will lead to the best conversions: http://affiliate.zanox.com/global/affiliate-programmes

Have a successful and profitable end-of-year business!

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/17/speed-up-your-christmas-business/feed/ 1 It’s all about change: openBoard episode 3 http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/16/its-all-about-change-openboard-episode-3/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/16/its-all-about-change-openboard-episode-3/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:22:31 +0000 Thomas Hessler http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1376 Today’s big news has probably reached many of you. We, Jens, Heiko and myself – the zanox board and founders – will leave zanox at the beginning of 2010 and will hand over to Phillip Justus, the new CEO of zanox. Last night we prepared an openBoard video message for you, and this episode wasn’t an easy one for us. We talked about why we will leave zanox, our upcoming plans and the future of zanox:

If you want to know more about Philipp and get some more details, also have a look at our press release. And of course, we’ll be around for a while – so there will be lots of time to discuss your questions in the next couple of weeks and months. So just stay tuned!

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/11/16/its-all-about-change-openboard-episode-3/feed/ 5 Contribute to the zanox Wiki! http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/10/15/contribute-to-the-zanox-wiki/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/10/15/contribute-to-the-zanox-wiki/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:42:44 +0000 David Fauck http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1292

Now that we have a zanox Wiki for all our countries, we would like to invite all of you to contribute! Our Wiki is now easily accessible via our single sign-on solution zanox Connect.  So everyone with a zanox publisher account is now able to write, edit or translate with just one click.

So what’s the zanox Wiki all about? The zanox Wiki is our central knowledge base and serves as an extension of our network: Our Wiki holds precise explanations of all the terminology and processes surrounding our services and products, as well as general affiliate marketing topics. And since it’s all about collective intelligence, it’s not just gonna be us who maintain it, but we would also love to have your expertise to perpetually expand it.

Contributing is easier than you probably thought: You can easily become a contributor and share your knowledge with our community. Simply log-on to our network with your zanox Publisher account via zanox Connect and start writing, editing or translating.

Feel also free to use the Wiki’s discussion board to all Wiki-related questions and feedback. For all other questions or if you need help with anything, let our First Level Support know or use our support platform getsatisfaction.com

The zanox Wiki supports the following languages:

To reward you for your efforts we’re also working on a compensation programme for regular contributors and we’ll keep you up-to-date on this. We hope you enjoy working with the Wiki and sharing information!

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As a European hub for start-up businesses, Berlin has made itself a name for hosting key events on entrepreneurship and venture capital. Yesterday, the Venture Lounge Berlin took place at the international congress center ICC and gave start-up founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business angels the opportunity to touch-base. Our co-founder and CFO Heiko Rauch had been invited to talk about the early days of zanox and how the three Berlin graduates managed to turn their start-up into a truly global player before selling their successful business in 2007. On the same page, since many have asked us to let you know more about how it all started, we have added the feature “zanox: from start-up to global player – a Berlin success story” to our website. Read the full story here and find out why our founders lost a business plan competition to a sandwich-delivery service ;)

So there is a lot of knowledge our founders are happy to share with the next generation of entrepreneurs. That’s why Heiko is attending the medienwoche@IFA, the media week as a part of the Berlin-based consumer electronics show IFA. Today, he will speak on a panel on “Investors wanted: next generation entrepreneurship”. If you are around and interested, just drop by at the ICC today at 16:30.

Update: Here are some more impressions of medienwoche@ifa and the panel discussion Heiko took part in:

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Why did we decide to come up with the zanox openBoard idea in the first place? It all began with an e-mail we wrote to all our zanox employees, asking each of them to create zanox 2.0. Here is a bit of what we wrote:

“We can’t help but realise that our zanox world is changing faster and faster. There is a new ‘open & collaborative’ culture coming, which we also want to implement within zanox. That’s why, from today on, we want to share our thoughts and ideas about the future with all of you and ask you to contribute and participate!”

We thought we’d go ahead and set an example on how we think this open development could be accelerated. So from now on we would like to keep you updated on what’s going on within zanox via our openBoard web TV episodes.

Enjoy watching – we hope you like it!

Thomas, Heiko & Jens

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So here are a few impressions of our Silicon Valley Campus – enjoy!

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/08/18/impressions-of-our-silicon-valley-campus/feed/ 0 Our shareholders’ acquisition of Digital Window http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/08/04/our-shareholders-acquisition-of-digital-window/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/08/04/our-shareholders-acquisition-of-digital-window/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:35:51 +0000 Valerie Ponell http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1112 Many of you have probably already read today’s news on our shareholders’ acquisition of Digital Window:  Axel Springer and PubliGroupe announced their investment in Digital Window, the holding company of Affiliate Window, a leading UK affiliate network. With a share of 50.1 %, Axel Springer and PubliGroupe are now the majority shareholders of digital window.

Although we as zanox are not involved in our shareholders’ new acquisition, we would like to provide you with a few answers to questions that you might be asking yourself:

Does the new acquisition have any impact on zanox UK ?
zanox and Digital Window will remain to be two separate companies, both owned by our shareholders. This means that this decision will not have any impact on our UK subsidiary: zanox UK will remain untouched, as well as the team and its management. Therefore, our UK businesses will run as usual and will not be affected in any way. However, we will evaluate how zanox and Digital Window might cooperate and look out for possible synergies.

How could a possible cooperation between zanox UK and Digital Window look like?
The zanox board welcomes our shareholders’ decision and considers it as an opportunity to further strengthen our market position in the UK: We believe that Digital Window has the potential to become a strong cooperation partner of zanox UK , for example by joining our Global Alliance Partner (GAP) programme.

Why did Axel Springer again decide on a joint venture with PubliGroupe?
The joint venture both our shareholders agreed on with the acquisition of zanox has proven to be a successful step. The positive experiences Axel Springer and PubliGroupe have made with us now led to a second joint investment in Digital Window.

Again, we are glad to see that our shareholders made the investment and are looking forward to a successful cooperation with Digital Window. We hope that this already answered some of the most important questions, but of course let us know if there is anything else you’d like to know.

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So Twitter is a great way for us to keep up to date with what the international affiliate marketing industry is talking about. It’s all about people, their ideas, needs and perception of latest trends – and there are quite a lot! And of course, all companies are interested to see what people think and talk about them, no doubt. So Twitter is a perfect way to listen to and, at the same time, reach out to a large number of people in our business. Sure, there is promotion on Twitter, but we think that it’s an easy and direct way for you to keep updated on what’s new.

Since by now we have established several different and also local Twitter Accounts, we thought that it’s a good idea to give you an overview of our zanox Tweets:

zanox_minitwitter.com/zanox: Our first zanox Twitter account: It’s in English, international and, similar to our blog, keeps you up to date on what’s going on within the online marketing industry and our company.

zanox_minitwitter.com/zanox_affiliate: zanox_affiliate bundles all international news on the latest afffiliate programmes.

Our zanox country Tweets provide you with updates on local company news and also on the latest afffiliate programmes in your country:

And last but not least, we love to set up Twitter walls during our events, so everybody gets a chance to  comment on panel discussions or ask questions during a Q & A sessions. Oh, and tweets are also a great indicator on whether a party rocked or not: If there are tweets coming in around eight in the morning on the day after, it didn’t seem to be all that great – so glad our zanox Summer Party after-tweets sounded more like “Almost noon, time to get up eventually, still dizzy but wow – thanks, zanox for the amazing party last night!” Now that’s feedback we love to receive ;)

]]> http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/07/17/why-we-love-twitter/feed/ 4 zanox among TechCrunch Europe Top 10 http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/07/14/zanox-among-techcrunch-europe-top-10/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/07/14/zanox-among-techcrunch-europe-top-10/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:11:36 +0000 Valerie Ponell http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1048 techcrunch_top10TechCrunch Europe just launched the Top 100 Index, a constantly updated index of the most innovative and highest-potential European tech companies. We were really proud to see that zanox made it among the TOP 10! “We think that our efforts in pushing forward on innovative developments within the affiliate marketing industry strongly contribute to the company’s progress, which is well reflected by the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index,” our CEO Thomas Hessler says. “With the zanox Application Store and the $2 Mio Application Store Contest we are tapping the creativity of our network’s collective intelligence: Benefiting everyone involved is what we consider as the key to success of any ambitious tech company.”

Compiled by TechCrunch Europe and the start-up success indicator YouNoodle, the index is focused on mobile and web companies and covers the broad Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA). “We wanted to use a data-led approach to create a list which could start to throw up both the themes and the diversity of this rich marketplace,” Mike Butcher of TechCrunch Europe writes. “We hope the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 will help throw some light on the European companies that are generating strong, genuine progress.” You can also read more about the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index here.

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