Ads waiting for approval badge

We've introduced a new feature this morning for advertisers. There is a new graphic "badge" next to the Manage > Ads left menu item. The icon shows the number of ads waiting for a decision from the user - to be rejected or approved. We're hoping this extra visual will emphasize to users that they need to decide on the status of each ad they upload and cut down on unnecessary revisions.

Reports feature moved

You may have noticed that Reports is no longer found under the Manage menu on the left in SendMyAd. You can now find this feature in the Dashboard and in your company profile - just look for the Reports button in both locations.

New beta feature: SFTP file delivery

Today's upgrade contains a new beta feature - the ability to deliver files over secure FTP. Also known as SFTP, it can be configured in the add or edit delivery location screens. Please contact support if you would like to test this feature. We'd like your feedback on this new functionality.

SendMyAd June upgrade completed

Our upgrade this morning was successful. All the features noted yesterday are live, and any bug fixes you've been promised for the next upgrade are in place.

Upgrade time!

Tomorrow, bright and early, we'll be upgrading SendMyAd with a bunch of new features:

• Support for iPad, mobile and e-reader ads


• Preflighting of click tags in digital ads


• Specifying date ranges for digital ads


• Expanded multilingual support, including uploaders


• Users can now directly request help while viewing an ad


• Help requests launched from Dashboard allow selection of publication


• Applies extra validation to editing of materials code


• Materials ID is checked for uniqueness during edits


• Adds paging through results of advanced searches for ads


• FLV support for digital ads


• Advertiser admins receive an email when new users from their company register with SendMyAd


• New email template for notifying advertisers when a publisher rejects an ad


• Allowing publisher users to edit the materials ID manually is now a preference

Upgrade complete

We upgraded the site early this morning to bring you a range of fixes and enhancements to SendMyAd. If you've been waiting on a fix or new feature, and were told it was in the next upgrade - it's live now.

This release brings expanded translation support, with the vast majority of the site now supporting multiple languages. If you have a need for a version of the site in a language other than English, let us know so we can arrange the setup for you.

Publishers can now also upload their own logos and custom branding information for the front "landing" page. You can also tweak the CSS file for the site to customize the look and feel. These features are found in the Look and Feel section of your publisher settings.

Changes to password reset system

In order to help users that have not yet had a chance to set up a new security question and answer, we've restored the old ability for a user to reset the password themselves by following a special link emailed to them. They will receive this email automatically now if they enter their username in the password recovery area, and we detect that they do not have a challenge question. Users with challenge questions will use that method for their password resets. We hope this will make the system even simpler to use and require less work for publishers.

This functionality will appear in the next upgrade, tentatively planned in about a week.