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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...

Feature #10999: Add Google +1 buttonFeature #10998: Add Facebbok like buttonFeature #10997: Add Twitter buttonFeature #10996: Integration with JboloFeature #10995: Add configuration options for social sharing buttonsFeature #9784: Support animated gif images in uploadFeature #8759: create Affiliate code or Google Adsense adsFeature #10745: payment ...

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...

Thanks a ton for being a Subscriber for SocialAds ! We hope you liked our latest release which Added Geolocation Support, Ad Slotting to improve & more :)In order to improve our communication with you & have an active ear for your needs, feedback & inputs we are starting a Newsletter + Blog series to get your direct inputs. Here is a li...

Hey All !
Sorry to surprise you.. so soon with a Blog about SocialAds 2.5 just after the 2.0 Stable release.. While the Beta was out for testers, we weren't just sitting & waiting around for Bugs to arise..
We were already working on the next Major release of SocialAds thanks to a sponsor who agreed to chip in to get a lot of our features that were actually months ago done right away ! In fact, we plan to name the release after this client ! All I can tell you in the intro is that the changes in 2.5 are absolute dynamite.. We are packaging pure advertising power in this release to blow your mind away :) & make you even more money ;) To tease you even more, we are going to be doing a series of blog posts over the next few weeks & unravel one feature after another ! Over to Dipti for the details ..

Parth Lawate

Its been a while since we wrote the last blog post about SocialAds 2.5 & upcoming features. Last time we just showed you a little bit of what was planned. This blog post will take you through the rest of the planned features. We got very tied up with a lot of releases & klind of forgot to get this out !  SocilalAds 2.5 may come any moment now .. while you wait, here's what to expect :)

This is one question that i have been needing to answer almost everyday.. So here is an update of where SocialAds development is at ..Well atleast these are the features that i could quickly take some screen shots of anyways ! Quick Look at SocialAds 2.0 1. Community Builder Integration Option I guess this is the biggest announcement yet.. Communit...

Watch this cool cartoon video we have compiled for SocialAds for JomSocial. Let us know if you would like us to compile a similar white label version that you can show your user's. It can be a great way to promotethe SocialAds feature on your site to potential advertisers.. Take a look & let us know your feedback ! {youtube}jv_R1PB20Lk|560|340|...

We know from your comments that all of you have been very excited about the development of our SocialAds extension for JomSocial & everyone is dying to hear news about its development. So we have decided to start a short series of blogs that will not only tell you how the development is going but also introduce you to some new features we have sneaked in ;) .

This blog is the first of the series. As you might know we delayed the beta by about 2 weeks. The reason was  to get in some more features into the build. Read on for the full update & Sneak preview on some features.

Highly recommended "The SocialAds component is one of the most exciting developments to arrive for those with Joomla-based communities, and I was thrilled to be among one of the first customers.  Like any new extension, there were bugs to be worked out, but the level of response and customer service to resolve them in an expedited manner has been s...