Still working on making ads exportable.
Bulk action seems the best and most easy way. The saves me from making more dashboards and allows you to better utilize the Ad manager.
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What’s this then? Portable ads?
Thoughts?
Sell adverts via Broadstreet Ads – The easy way!
A few weeks ago I was approached by Kenny Katzgrau who runs and co-founded Broadstreet.
Broadstreet bridges a gap between customization and management where Publishers can allow Advertisers to easily and quite effortlessly configure and customize their adverts at any time from anywhere.
Broadstreet currently does business with hundreds of Publishers and Advertisers in the United States, Europe and some in Asia. Kenny from Broadstreet proposed a sort of co-operation where their Advertisement system would integrate with AdRotate to accommodate their current and future users better. Since a lot of them already use AdRotate it would make sense to team up with me and integrate the two. And so we did!
So what does this mean for you
You as a publisher can create adverts through the Broadstreet system directly from the AdRotate Dashboard and empower your advertisers to fill in the blanks to keep their advert up-to-date via various online media services. This has been tested to work and turned out quite popular, too.
Imagine a restaurant owner who quickly wants to advertise the daily special. Or perhaps a store or business who regularly change their adverts for all kinds of products they offer. Organizing events becomes easy to promote with adverts that are quickly and easy to update with better or more information as it comes available.
Code generated through the Broadstreet system is easy to handle and use and suits the AdRotate Plugin perfectly.
A real advert as example:
The text in the center of this advert can be changed and updated by your advertiser without you having to update the advert. This saves you time. And gives your advertiser a good amount of freedom to promote their products! Of course you can choose certain styles and coloring when creating the advert.
Available how and when?
The Broadstreet integration will be available as a feature in both AdRotate and AdRotate Pro. Testing is in the final stages and we’re expecting to release updates very soon. Check out Broadstreets website for more details on what they do and how they will help you.
If you have any questions please comment below or write to sales@ajdg.net for more information.
AdRotate 3.7rc5 now available
That went faster than expected. A first version of the new blocks is now implemented. I’ve tested this on my 2 servers and it seems to work fine.This update entails some database changes to the blocks table. This is done automatically when you re-activate AdRotate.
If you upgrade from any previous version be aware that your blocks as they are now will look funny and you need to reconfigure them. This applies ONLY to blocks. Any ads or groups inside those blocks should be fine since no changes are made there. The most important change you’ll see is that blocks no longer look for the total amount of ads and breaks those in columns. The new way is that blocks now look for rows and columns without setting a total amount of ads. This will allow for a more conventional and spreadsheet like behavior. Additionally you can now more easily style the block with margins and such rendering the current “wrapper” function deprecated.
Changelog compared to rc4:
[new] Improved block shapes and settings
Download here:
Localization:
If you want your translation included in the initial 3.7 download i need those files.
You can find the po and mo files here. And send them to me via the forum.
Version 3.7rc5 has (according to Poedit) 34 new phrases. But i think a bunch of them are combined with existing ones.
Feedback:
Keep sending your feedback folks, this is very important to bring a bug free and super awesome version.
Important change for upcoming versions for blocks!
I know Release Candidates aren’t supposed to get extensive new features but this was, i think, too good to let go till 3.7.1 or even 3.8.
I’m rewriting the way blocks are defined. Replacing the format option and eventually the limiting wrapper too. You will have more options, giving you greater flexibility. And best of all, it’s all done in valid CSS code and some smart math in PHP to make it all fit.
However, in usage this will mean that anyone using blocks will have to make some changes when this comes available. Or your blocks will look weird and ugly, perhaps even cause errors in your theme. So take notice, try out rc5 when its ready.
Here’s a initial form. This needs polishing and proper names of course. Also the form doesn’t work yet. This will eventually replace the wrapper function entirely.
