Calling all developers! Facebook has announced another fbFund for developers. The first round ends on the 29th of August and full details are here.
Best part is, when you develop your newest “killer app” you can start earning right away with Zohark.
Good luck in with your development and feel free to get in touch if you need any help at all.
It’s official, facebook has released their open platform. You can grab it here.
This move will surely change the application landscape inside facebook and beyond.
Like all great online ventures, eventually we all need more servers.
Zohark keeps on increasing its capacity as more advertisers and more app developers sign on to Zohark.
Business Week reports that facebook is going to be buying another 50,000 servers with another $100,000,000 round of financing.
I wanted to alert our developers to something that I read this morning - there is a possible problem on the horizon for developers that are using flash in their apps.
The article is from Mashable and I suggest you read it. I would hate to see any of the great apps that Zohark works with go down.
Developers have had great success advertising their facebook applications on the Zohark ad network (http://apps.facebook.com/zohark_ads). Zohark’s development is due, in large part, to developer and advertiser feedback. Most recently, developers asked for tracking information from every click on the Zohark network so that they could measure conversions.
Thanks for the suggestions; here’s what we have come up with:
On the advertiser control panel of Zohark Ads (http://apps.facebook.com/zohark_ads), select “website” as the advertisement type.
In the click url, point the users to: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=YOURAPPID&username={fb_user}
Please substitute YOURAPPID with your application ID
Or
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=YOURAPIKEY&username={fb_user}
Please substitute YOURAPIKEY with the API key of your application.
Now every click will come back with the “username” variable populated with the facebook user ID of the person that clicked on the ad. Developers will then be able to compare that variable with their installs to track conversions.
Keep those suggestions coming. Zohark will continue to listen to you and together, we will continue to be the fastest growing ad network on facebook and beyond.
Zohark, the social advertising network, is doubling its page views every month.
For the month of March, Zohark will deliver over 120,000,000 ad impressions across our network of facebook applications.
The publishers that use Zohark to monetize their facebook applications have been enjoying our fast ad load speeds and reliable weekly payments.
The advertisers that advertise on Zohark are getting quality prospects that they are converting into sales. In addition, the ads that are not clicked are free impressions for the advertisers and a great boost to their branding initiatives.
At this rate, Zohark will be delivering tens of millions of impressions per day in a couple of months, and that’s just on facebook. Zohark is in development for MySpace, Bebo and other platforms.
Stay tuned - more great things are on the way from Zohark.
Zohark, the social advertising network, is seeing amazing growth on facebook and getting great feedback.
The application on facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/zohark_ads) is the fastest growing ad application in all of facebook. I can attribute this growth to the perfect 5 star rating and happy developers. Here is the most recent example:
BEST.ADS.EVER
1.) Fastest loading.
2.) Most customizable.
3.) Never show secret CPM ads like other companies.
4.) Superior support system.
5.) Geo-taregeted ads.
6.) My friends experience - THEY PAY! (You won’t get cubed)
In short, Zohark just fixed all problems anybody was having with any ad company.
I love this!
I guess this is what happens when a group of PPC veterans gets together and creates an ad network on facebook. We promise to keep up the good work and look forward to exceeding everyone’s expectation.
Zohark (http://apps.facebook.com/zohark_ads) has released its new advertiser section. This great feature now lets application developers create ads for their applications as well as their websites from within facebook.
Try it now, no prepayment is required to begin running ads. Bids start at $0.10 and advertisers are able to limit their daily spend. Accounts are not charged until clicks are delivered.
Zohark has the tools to create and track multiple ad campaigns for maximum return on advertising dollars. The campaign management system built into Zohark lets advertisers manage their bids across 20 categories for superior targeting.
Niagara Media LLC, the parent company of Zohark, was founded by web advertising veterans that have over a decade in the industry. The ads are delivered by geo-load balanced servers that handle millions of impressions and clicks a day. Zohark ads load quickly and reliably.
Zohark has more ad formats than any other ad network on facebook, ensuring that ads are displayed in an attractive and inviting fashion. The better the ads look, the more they are noticed, and the more likely they are to be clicked.
Join the hundreds of developers that are running ads by Zohark. Go to http://apps.facebook.com/zohark_ads and click on the Advertiser Mode to create your ads or click on Get Your Code to run ads by Zohark.
Zohark_Ads, the facebook application that lets developers add ads to their pages, has just released iframe ads. Now, in addition to FBML ads, developers can monetize their ifame based apps with the new ads.
The new ads are available in 15 different formats, allowing developers to pick the perfect size for their application.
Copy the ad code form the “get your code” tab in the Zohark_Ads application, paste it onto your canvas pages and start making money.
Zohark Ads is an advertising network for Facebook.
Our new ad formats launched today - take a look at this post in the Facebook Developers Forum.
I would like to update you about our progress over at Zohark (http://apps.facebook.com/zohark_ads/) and some more background info about what we do
First of all - we have just launched many new features including over 10 new ad formats (all the standard IAB formats + a couple just for facebook)
For those of you that are already running our ads, please checkout the new ad formats and update your code - early adopters have seen their CTR increase dramatically after switching over.
There is new reporting so that you can break down your stats per application and see whats happening on a per day basis
We are proud to be serving out over 2 million Daily ad impressions after our first week out of beta! - Thank you everyone who is displaying our ads!
So far we have been handing the load without any issues - Our application runs on our Globally Load Balanced server cluster; we have over 60 servers spread between LA, London and Toronto that all act as one large server. That cluster also handles our other projects such as http://www.thundertext.com, http://www.searchgive.com, http://www.freesites.com - combined our network dishes out over 50 million ad impressions per day.
To make Zohark succeed and to offer you the best paying ads, we have integrated technology from our other Ad network called ThunderText (http://www.thundertext.com)
Our technology aggregates advertisements from not only our own pool of advertisers but from our network of partners - combined we have access to over 20,000 advertisers in every vertical in real time.
We are working hard to bring you more innovative features - some things to see from us in the near future are:
- Iframe version of our ads
- Incentivized actions - users can fill out offers/surveys in return for points that are earned and can be used in your app in real-time (We are currently in need of beta testers for this - please email me if interested)
- new and unique ad formats