Archive for August, 2009

My dog has more friends than I do on Facebook…

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Dogbook (& Catbook), a very popular Facebook application, is now accepting advertising orders right inside their Facebook application using Shiny Ads’ advertising widget.

They embedded the advertising interface right into the Facebook application and thus it looks like it is part of their own interface.  They are using a product list of packaged impressions.

You can see it in action here.

2.3 Million Cities

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

An advertiser can now select their geo-targeted cities by using our auto-suggester input field.  The cities correspond to the cities available in the OpenX MaxMind geoIP database; 2.2 million cities.

This allows local advertisers to geo-target the correct cities and not worry about spelling mistakes.

Hello World!

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Welcome to Shiny Ads.

We have opened up to publishers who wish to beta test our self service advertising platform.  Register here.