tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:34:25 +0000FeaturesMySpaceAdknowledgeFacebookServersTutorialsConferencesReportsSupportAdknowledge AdonomicsBeboBrandsHi5LookeryMaintenancePaymentsPromoTaglinesYour spot for Cubics news, updates and tutorials.http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)Blogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6416838707673109158Fri, 29 May 2009 21:24:00 +00002009-06-01T16:03:49.535-05:00FeaturesTutorialsPlease note, the use of this feature will impact your earnings.One of the oft-requested features is the ability to control what ads are being displayed on your app or website.Initially, we had an ad-blocking feature. We also had an internal "safe-list" for some specific publishers with special content restrictions. Our publisher base and international advertiser base have both grown significantlyhttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-content-filtering.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2491657414222036450Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:20:00 +00002009-03-06T11:24:47.232-06:00FacebookFeaturesCubics is pleased to announce the launch of our Cubics Integrated Ads feature for all of our Facebook developers.Cubics Integrated Ads are a means of providing you with greater control over the display of your ads. Developers are able to have the user’s browser pull down an ad from us and choose where to display the ad and how to style it. Check out this Flash below for a few samples of what you http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2009/02/cubics-integrated-ads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2949451616407293220Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:41:00 +00002008-12-17T11:13:56.454-06:00SupportWe've rolled out a change in the way we count impressions. The change is reasonably simple, as illustrated below.So basically we're counting the impression at the end of delivery rather than at the beginning. For most publishers, this won't make a big difference in terms of impressions, but you may see lower impression counts. This will mostly happen on pages where the user clicks through thehttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/12/changes-in-impressions-counts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6726481137558561463Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:51:00 +00002008-11-06T17:17:06.041-06:00AdknowledgeLookeryReportsSupportLookery and Adknowledge are pleased to announce that Lookery’s ad serving business has been acquired by Adknowledge / Cubics.com. Lookery has been seeking a company to acquire its ad serving business that is able to both provide you with the same or higher payouts that you are currently receiving and provide the same level of service that you have come to expect from Lookery. We found both of http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/11/adknowledge-acquires-lookery-ads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2299188181455201441Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:04:00 +00002008-11-03T17:15:48.124-06:00Adknowledge AdonomicsFacebookFeaturesA press release was put out this morning for the acquisition of Adonomics by Adknowledge (Cubics parent company).From our GM Dwayne Lafleur:We will continue to provide this data to the community in the same spirit as Adonomics has done in the past. Additionally, Adonomics will be able to provide the publisher community with additional tools and information as we look to merge this data within thehttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/11/adknowledge-acquires-adonomics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6632132661787871810Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:35:00 +00002008-10-24T10:30:03.989-05:00ReportsIf you've logged in to the Cubics UI over the last few weeks, you may have seen a few changes. In particular, I wanted to talk about the new Publisher Reports page in detail.The screen has two significant new features: Filtering and Grouping. Our previous filtering was limited to one channel and one application. If you had three applications and you wanted to break them out, you had to run the http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-reports-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2104730188261324959Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:37:00 +00002008-08-11T15:32:02.233-05:00ServersHello Developers;There was some server down-time yesterday during the afternoon and night (North America time). The ad servers were serving up mostly "default ads" and blanks. No impressions were registered because we were not showing actual ads.The issue has been resolved on our end and the servers are operating normally. Thank you to those who reported the issue. It happened on a Sunday night http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-current-issues.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2506974445759584830Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:35:00 +00002008-08-01T12:51:42.941-05:00FeaturesSometime this afternoon, all of our Publishers will be greeted with new numbers on their reports screen. These two new numbers are: Quality and Engagement. Yes, you've seen Quality before, but it has changed. Here's how we define the two terms.QualityYour Quality Score is based on the conversion rate of your traffic for our advertisers compared to the Cubics network average. Conversion rate is http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-quality-and-engagement-scores.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-8410454238991037614Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:37:00 +00002008-07-24T16:39:54.949-05:00AdknowledgeMySpacePromo2 Big pieces of news. The first is that we've just made a press release regarding monthly impression counts. We're now doing 10B monthly impressions:"Our massive reach allows advertisers to get their message out to an extremelylarge number of online consumers in an environment where they spend a largeportion of their time," says Dwayne Lafleur, General Manager of AdknowledgeSocial http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/07/10b-monthly-impressions-myspace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-5800526963523977354Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:19.906-06:00BeboFacebookFeaturesHi5MySpaceThe new Facebook profile re-design is well underway. Based on the information we have at this time, the new page width will be 760 pixels. This opens up the opportunity for a new popular ad format: the Leaderboard. Leaderboards are 728 x 90.The leaderboard effectively takes up the width of the new canvas and adds a few more pixels of height. If you were using the Facebook Banner or the standard http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-facebook-new-ad-size.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2433495291611739824Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:48:00 +00002008-07-06T22:06:13.905-05:00ServersCubics was down for three hours this afternoon (Sunday, 2008-06-07).It was an issue at the data center level, affecting hundreds of web servers. At the moment, it looks like data is current and intact.It's a long weekend here in the US, so we'll have a better idea of what happened tomorrow.http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/07/cubics-down-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-3786570315843169083Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:20.633-06:00FeaturesTutorialsWe've just launched a couple of new features for our Cubics Developers. One big, one small.The small feature is that we now support a "Facebook Banner" size of 645x60. See the screenshot below for a sample of what it looks like. Please note that this is not an IAB standard size, so we don't have nearly as many graphic ads in this size. Switching to this ad may result in a change in payouts.The http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/06/track-your-apps-new-fb-ad-size.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-5962403134988153140Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:08:00 +00002008-06-17T17:14:35.476-05:00MaintenanceServersHello developers & advertisers.If you've been unable to log in this morning, the problem is not your password. We've taken the DB off-line for maintenance. Now the website can't connect to the DB, but we're giving you the wrong error message.The ads are still serving (they're on distributed web servers), but the login pages may not be active for a few hours.I'll let you know more as soon as Ihttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/06/server-maintenance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-375439656112666532Tue, 27 May 2008 22:49:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:21.084-06:00ConferencesWe're going to be at the GSP East conference in DC from June 9-11. Here are some snazzy pictures of myself (Gates) and Jasper, the publisher relations team here at Cubics. If you're a publisher or an advertiser, we'd love to hear from you. I'll be walking around in bright blue Cubics shirts, so we should be easy to pick out.Please drop us a line if you like to catch up for sit-down. Just e-mail http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/going-to-gsp-east.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6292043425073849598Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-05-28T14:00:17.718-05:00AdknowledgeBrandsMySpaceHere's some new Cubics news:Adknowledge announced Monday that it has hired Matt Rochios, former Senior Sales Manager for MySpace, to run sales efforts out of their west coast office in San Francisco. Matt’s experience includes selling into social platforms, representing behavioral and contextual targeted inventory; rich media and video as well as leveraging advertiser brands against content. Matthttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/eyeing-brand-advertisers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2237658702021737748Wed, 07 May 2008 15:17:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:21.295-06:00FeaturesThe Cubics team is proud to announce that we've released a new feature for blocking ads on your apps. Before now you were only allowed to block your own ads, which meant blocking ads that were shown on an advertiser account that you owned.We appreciate that Publishers like to have some level of control over the content of their apps. So we've expanded the blocking feature to provide for a more http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-ad-blocking-feature.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6899206390126717954Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:32:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:21.571-06:00FeaturesAs of today Cubics has launched a new feature: Default Ad Substitution.This feature allows developers to provide ad code from another network to replace our "default views". So if Cubics is not able to show a well-earning ad, then we'll run somebody else's ads in place. It's really a way to help ensure that you're providing ads to all of your traffic.Set-upTo set up these default ads, first loginhttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/04/default-ad-substitution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-5504024694765838805Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:18:00 +00002008-04-21T17:20:11.001-05:00Over the weekend a few users pointed out a change in their base CPM.Please know that payouts have not changed. Cubics has not reduced the amount of money that you make.This change has affected a small number of Publishers who are running Skyscrapers (120x600) & Rectangles (300x250). The system is over-reporting views which caused a dip in Base CPM which was then canceled out by a rise in QR.http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/04/changes-in-cubics-base-cpm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6803757881382821391Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:34:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:21.734-06:00SupportSo we've made some changes to the way we handle contact submissions. The big one from a Publisher perspective boils down to this:We have a "Contact Us" link from within the Publisher control panel. This will give you a ticket number to track your support requests.It's also worthy of note that we do have a toll-free number: 1-877-CUBICS-0. which is available during North American business hours,http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-contact-system.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6412708650659645173Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:22.059-06:00ConferencesWe're going to be at the SNAP Summit 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday ().Here are some snazzy pictures of myself (Gates) and Jasper, the publisher relations team here at Cubics.If you're a publisher or an advertiser, we'd love to hear from you. We'll be walking around in bright blue Cubics shirts, so we should be easy to pick out.Please drop us a line if you like to catch up for http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/03/going-to-snap-summit-20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-352002866389420019Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:27:00 +00002008-03-19T16:30:27.319-05:00FacebookHello Cubics Developers;Over the past several weeks, Facebook has contacted all ad networks regarding the content and layout of advertisements displayed in Facebook applications. They have set forth guidelines for the displaying of ads that will allow for the continued monetization of applications while protecting the Facebook user experience.Cubics has gone through great measures to comply withhttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-ad-formats-on-facebook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-8850950870557856529Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:28:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:22.271-06:00ServersSo it's finally happened. Cubics' software has left the Alberta Foothills and moved to Kansas City.Our co-loc in Edmonton was having all kinds of problems meeting our service requirements (bandwidth and hardware issues). So during the week of February 18th, we quietly moved all of our traffic to new servers with better network hardware on a much better co-loc over here in Kansas City. Since thenhttp://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/03/shiny-new-servers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-2353904689137198111Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:57:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:22.287-06:00ConferencesMySpaceWe're going to be at O'Reilly's GSP West conference in San Diego on Monday & Tuesday (March, 3 & 4, 2008).We is myself (Gates) and Jasper, a recent addition to our Publisher Relations team.We'll be walking around in bright blue Cubics shirts, so we should be easy to pick out. If you're reading this, we'd love to meet you face-to-face, so come say hi. We'll be handing out a few snazzy http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/02/going-to-gsp-west.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-6957623422324496805Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:37:00 +00002008-12-08T19:57:22.370-06:00MySpaceTutorialsIf you haven't heard the news yet, MySpace has opened up their developer platform.The really good news is that it will be monetizable (see section 5.1):MySpace allows you to include advertising, sponsorship or other commercial or promotional content (collectively, “Advertising”) on your Application Profile Page(s) and Canvas Page(s) in the areas which you control.The platform has just gone live,http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/02/myspace-development.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454920643772716081.post-5744208118259333003Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:41:00 +00002008-02-06T18:11:19.969-06:00PaymentsReportsThe Cubics Publisher Reports screen contains several pieces of information regarding your account and account status. One of the issues that new publishers seem to deal with is understanding how today's numbers are tracked.The basic premise is that your numbers are updated throughout the day and then these numbers are "snapshot" at the end of the day. That means that your numbers for today are http://cubicsdev.blogspot.com/2008/02/understanding-timing-with-your-account.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Social Advertising)0