July 26th, 2010
BittAds is especially useful to get ads from different providers and use them together on your website. From now on this is even easier, as we provide support to automatically track clicks for the ads of several adservers. Just select “track this ad” while editing your creatives. Then select the adserver or network of your ad in the list beneath and you are ready to go!
If the system your ads are using is not in the list, you can try the two top options in the list: Generic and Simple link replacement. The first overlays your ad and captures all clicks, even when there are no links, and the second one looks for the link in your ad and replaces it with a BittAds link that tracks the clicks on the link.
We will be adding even more networks in the future.
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July 23rd, 2010
You are using BittAds to keep track of your ads, and you have ads to earn money. To help you with this, we added support for the financial part in BittAds.
You can choose for every ad whether it’s:
- remnant, for example in-house ads and ads from advertising networks;
- eCPM-optimized: CPM or CPC ads which compete with other CPM/CPC ads based on their eCPM (actual earnings);
- more important than everything else: if someone buys your ad space for a fixed price or you want for some other reason to display an ad before all others, that is possible too.
The interface splits the ads visually according to these categories, so you have clear insight into the ads running on your site, and you can see for all these ads how much they earn you.
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May 21st, 2010
A lot of improvements have been made in BittAds lately and we want to take the opportunity here to update you about what kept us busy:
- The “forgot password” functionality has been improved: you now get an email that allows you to choose a new password, which also ensures that your password is not reset by accident.
- You can serve ads in an iframe now. There is an option at each creative to set this up.
- The XML API has been further improved. You can now prefetch several ads using the
number parameter. Also the API has been extended so you can get a list of users that have access to a specific network by doing an authenticated request to http://server.bittads.com/<instance>/xml/users. For more information, please see the XML API documentation.
- You can target your ads on day of the week now.
- The geotargeting has been improved. US states are now targetable and it is easier to target on cities.
- Archived ads have a page for themselves now. They don’t clutter your status overview any more, so you can archive an ad and forget about it.
- Basic support for the VAST standard for linear video ads has been added. More functionality like non-linear video ads and overlays will come in the foreseeable future.
- A tiered priority system has been added. This makes it possible to set up your ads in priority groups, and let them show only when more important ads are not applicable.
- Lots of little improvements in the user interface.
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March 22nd, 2010
In addition to the other XML API features, you can now also fetch a list of the networks that a user has access to, and a list of zones, shapes and locations for each network. These features make it easier to do more advanced integrations of BittAds with your CMS.
Details are available at the XML API specification.
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March 18th, 2010
Are you using BittAds and do you think more people should know about our service? Then from today you can use our promotional button to use on your website.
<a style="border:0;" href="http://www.bittads.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.bittads.com/files/bittads_button.png"/></a>
Tags: promotional button
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March 5th, 2010
Today we released the new version of our Bittads for Wordpress plugin. It no longer requires you to look up your network ID, but just asks you to login with your BittAds username and password. It will automatically retrieve your networks and shapes.
Aside from that it’s now also possible to add multiple BittAds widgets to your sidebar. Stay tuned for more updates soon.
PS. the BittAds for Wordpress plugin is open-source and contains a lot of code that might be useful in case you are integrating BittAds into your own PHP app.
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February 15th, 2010
If you’re using BittAds to serve on a WordPress site, you’ll be happy to know that there is now an official BittAds plugin for WordPress. Because the plugin integrates tightly with WordPress, setting everything up takes just a few clicks.
We are currently working on future updates, like automatic retrieval of zones, shapes, etc. and having the ability of adding multiple BittAds widgets to one sidebar.
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November 12th, 2009
Hi! Welcome to the BittAds development blog. This is where we’ll keep you up-to-date on new features and other BittAds development news.
We’ve recently added a number of new features to BittAds:
Geotargeting:
You can now target ads to certain countries or cities. You can find this on the “edit ad” page, under “targeting options”.
View limit per day:
It is now possible, again under “targeting options”, to specify that an ad should only be shown X times per day, across all users.
Show ads during page load:
This feature is for you if your ads sometimes take long to show up:
Normally, the visitor’s browser loads your ads only after the rest of your page has finished loading. BittAds works this way to make sure that the loading of your page can never be slowed down by loading the ads. However, this means that if some element in your page takes long to load, then it will take a long time before the ads show up. For those situations, BittAds now has a new option: to show the ads during the loading of the page, instead of afterwards.
If you find yourself waiting for your ads to show up, give it a try. You’ll find the details on the “tags” page in your account.
XML API:
For the web programmers among us: with the XML API, you can now also read the status (views, clicks, etc) of your ads. Use this, for example, for integration with your own CMS.
That’s it for today!
We hope you enjoy the new features. We have many, many features planned for the future but we always like to hear what’s important to you, so drop by on our forums with your personal wishlist!
Tags: geotargeting, show ads during page load, view limit per day, xml api
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