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One of the great advantages of Internet advertising as against physical traditional advertising is that it gives advertisers more easily measurable ROI as well as more control on their campaigns. This allow advertisers to react faster to metrics and continuously improve their ROI. One of the key aspects of the vision behind creating Socialads was e...

Hey All, We have another release of SocialAds version 3.0.5 out for active subscribers. This release addresses various bugs reported in previous version. Check the change log given below for more details. Change Log :  - Bugs Fixes. Bug #33183: google is not defined error when HTTPSBug #37092: undefined is not a function in geo.jsBug #37093: f...

Hey All, We are pleased to announce the availability of SocialAds version 3.0.3 to active subscribers. This release addresses various bugs reported in previous version. Also we have made several minor quality improvements in it. Check the change log given below for more details. Change Log :  - Bugs Fixes. Bug #30697: ads not aligned horizonta...

We have released an update for SocialAds. This release v3.0.2 is a maintenance release which includes fixes for following bugs.  We suggest you to upgrade to this version. #29439 - zone not pre selected for edit Ad and also when redirected from module create ad link.#29302 - Payment view. Coupon area not available to apply coupon (ticket ...

SocialAds was created with a clear & simple goal in mind - To help site owners make Money !  Everything - from making SocialAds easy to use for advertisers or the multitude of Targeting options & Ad formats to state of the art reporting has been built thinking about this. With the same goal in mind, we believe in creating new opportuni...

Yes ! You heard it right !! Contextual Ads is the BIG new feature in this SocialAds release.

In line with our commitment to bring you the most versatile and feature rich Advertising solution for Joomla, we now introduce our next BIG feature - Contextual Ads or Keyword based targeting.  For contextual ads to be accurate, its necessary to be able to accurately find the most important keywords in a page, such that the user viewing the ads will find them to be closely related to the content he is seeing.

Keyword Density, Pattern matching, reference matching ... the list of methods that can be used to accertain accurate keywords can go on and on & this is a technology that is continuosly under improvement. Google does this pretty well with Google Adsense & Adwords products.And now, SocialAds has brought it to Joomla ! 

Search Ads which leverages contextual ads to display Ads relevant to searches is the next awesome feature. Using this, Search pages on your site can be monetized by showing relevant Ads alongside !

Both these features are a huge boost & SocialAds can now boast of a combined feature set of Google Adssense & Facebook & LinkedIn Ads all bundled in one ! Contextual Targeting can be used individually or in combination with Geo & Social Targeting if needed.

With these features, SocialAds is now highly recommended for Content heavy websites like News Portals & Blogs ! Make sure you get SocialAds for your site today !  You can demo the Contextual Ads feature here & the Search Ads feature here.

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Read on for details about both the features & the full changelog ...

We are super happy to let you know that SocialAds 2.9 is here with Awesome New Features + Joomla 3.X Support !

SocialAds 2.9 brings you a whole new Advertising Pricing Model which we call Advertising Wallet. With this new model, SocialAds introduces the concept of Campaigns & Budgets. You add money to your Ad Walllet, create any number of campaigns you want & set daily spending budgets for the campaigns. You can create Ads against campaigns without having to pay & checkout for every Ad.This not only streamlines the flow for your advertisors but also allows them to group their Ads in campaigns & manage their spend in a better way.

Google Ads, Facebook & LinkedIn Ads already work on this model. Note that SocialAds will continue to support both the Orignal Pay per Ad mode as well as the new Ad Wallet mode. You have the option to choose which suits you best !

If you wish to switch your payment model to the new Ad Wallet mode, we have provided a quick migration tool that will convert your user's existing ad balances to the new model on a prorata basis. The Migrator also supports a migration from Ad Wallet mode to Pay per Ad mode.

Note that from this version onwards we have dropped support for Joomla 1.5. Existing subscribers can download this release from the my Subscriptions area. Please look at our updated documentation for details on migrating to the new mode if you wish to. If you are not using one of the greatest Advertising Systems for Joomla yet, Buy it today !

The guys at CloudAccess have invited us to do a Webinar about SocialAds & share the secrets of what goes into setting it up to Maximise the Revenue earning potential of your website ! With innovative features like Flexible Zones & pricing, Email Ad delivery, Extensive Social, Geo & Keyword targeting, Flexible pricing models &a...

Hello All !
SocialAds has been going through some heavy development in the last few weeks & this release is sure to make your heart beat faster ! Do download the latest beta & take it for a test run & let us know your feedback !

Social Engagement & JBolo Integration

With this cool feature, users can now share your ad using Add This. JBolo Integration adds deeper engagement

 

Affiliate Ad Support

Add some more punch to your site monetization by running Affiliate Ads alongside regular Ads. Support all kinds of Affiliate codes including Google Adsense.

 

GIF Animations Support for Image Ads

You are not stuck with plain old static images any more. Now you can add vibrant GIF animations to your Image/ Media Ads.

 

 

Media Ads - Support for Flash & Video Ads

Yes ! We now support Flash as well as a variety of video formats besides standard Image formats.

 

 

Payment Slabs

Define Day ranges to let people pay by the week or by the month

Authorize.net Recurring payments

Use Authorize.net recurring payments to automatically bill clients on a set cycle.

Backend Ad Editing

Allow your site admins to Edit ads from the admin area.

Improved Promotion Architecture

Easy ability to add Promote anything in a Joomla site with place anywhere widgets. Brings back the much asked for Promote this Group/ Promote this event feature for JomSocial

Allow Ad owners to see their own Ads

One of the features of SocialAds is that it does not allow Ad owners to see their own ads in order to make it fairest to site owners astatsss well as other advertisers. This used to cause some confusion so we now let the admin disable this.

Optimized Stats table

Automated archiving of Stats in order to optimize the stats storage & improve performance

Admin Jotpad & Quick to Do list

Single place to see a quick to do list of SocialAds tasks for the admin in the backend.

This is just the Tip of the FeatureBerg !  Checkout the full Changelog in this Blog & participate in the discussion. Read on for the changelog.

Hello Everyone! Here's the most awaited Common Payment Gateway API support in SocialAds. Yes! you are right, it's the same common payment API which we have been talking about since a while :) The new API is used by JTicketing as well as the soon to be released Quick2Cart. This beta release contains, New Payment Gateways Support along with the old S...

Hello all, With many minor bug fixes along with the bug fixes for bugs reported in previous 2.7.5 beta 3 version we have released SocialAds 2.7.5 beta 4. The major changes in this include "click tracking support" for both flash ads and video ads.  We need a feedback from you guys specially for IE broswers testing. Given below are changelog and rele...

Hi guys! We have finally released the beta 3 for SocialAds 2.7.5. Sorry for the delay in releasing it.  This beta has Video Ads and Flash Ads support, along with all the features which were finalized in 2.7.5. Following are the same. Features in 2.7.5 Beta 3 Ability to Archive stats table to reduce load Flash Banner Ads supportVideo Ads supportCont...

Hello guys! As promised here is the second beta of SocialAds 2.7.5. This beta includes some features which many of you have been asking for and also bug fixes from the first beta. Note that this is a Beta & should not be used on live sites. Features in 2.7.5 Beta 2 Promote Widget - Promote anything supportLoad Payment froms via AjaxAdmin Ad edit Th...

Hey SocialAds users ! We are ready with the first Beta for SocialAds 2.7.5. This beta introduces several new features that you have been waiting for ! Here's a quick look at this release. Note that this is a Beta ! Do not use this on Live sites !Thanks a lot for giving us an overwhelming response to the last Subscriber Connect for SocialAds with th...

Hey Everyone ! Thanks a lot for your responses to SocialAds. Loved Geolocation ? What do you want next ?  With your interactions, it certainly added quite a bit to our Feature Requests ! We are now entering into an accelerated 3 step release cycle for SocialAds 2.7.5 planned as below. Once we have met with these Beta deliveries, we will try to push...