Kontera now meets the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Digital Video Guidelines for the most common current in-stream ad formats.

IAB represents the leading interactive companies that actively engage in and support the sale of interactive advertising.

With the rapid growth in online digital video, IAB initiated the Digital Video Guidelines to standardize the most common online video ad elements. These standards will be updated by IAB as new ad formats become widely adopted.

To learn more please visit: www.iab.net

We are excited to take part in the iMedia 2008 Breakthrough Summit in March at Rancho Mirage, California.

The summit is a great opportunity to tackle the full range of issues around employing “breakthrough” emerging media such as broadband video, mobile marketing, social networks, virtual communities and in-game advertising. Best expressed by the hosts of the event: “The goal is to create a program that not only provides targeted, actionable insight on the industry’s current issues, but does so in a way that encourages all attendees to participate and contribute to the dialogue”. And so we ready ourselves for a massive brain-storming event…

Kontera will be sponsoring a luncheon open to all attendees of the Breakthrough Summit on Tuesday, March 18th from 12 – 1:45 PM. The luncheon will provide a networking opportunity followed by lunch and a 30 minute presentation on the evolution of interactive media- “Pachinko Economics”, by David Scott Carlick, Managing Director of Vantage Point Venture Partners.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Find out more about the 2008 Breakthrough Summit, March 16 – March 19, Rancho Mirage, California

More on our BlogWorld adventures- Assaf Henkin, Kontera’s VP Product and Co-Founder, introduces smart ways to monetize your blog. And of course, John Chow has something to say about his experience with Kontera…

We have welcomed many new publishers to our network through our $25 bonus offer.

It’s been both good and reassuring to discover that so many great blogs out there easily meet the 50,000 impressions line.

For those of you who still haven’t had a chance to sign up and for those who waited till the last minute, we’ve decided to extend the bonus offer a little while longer. To start the New Year with something extra…

Click Here To Find Out More

Happy and fruitful 2008!

Kontera’s Limited Time Offer- new publishers sign up and earn additional $25 when reaching 50,000 impressions in your first month with us.

We are happy to welcome to our network all the new publishers who took us up on our offer of earning a $25 bonus. With many more publishers joining daily, we’d like to use this opportunity to say, Welcome Aboard!
Haven’t joined yet? There’s still time till New Year. Sign up and win additional $25!

We’ve received many questions lately regarding Kontera and Paypal. To make things clear, the answer is YES! We work with Paypal. Changing your payment method to PayPal is performed through Kontera’s Publisher Center.

First, we have to make sure your PayPal address is the same address you use to log into your Kontera account. To verify your address, access your account in the Publisher Center and go to “My Account” tab. After verifying your address, send us a message using the “Help” tab to us know that you would like to receive payments by PayPal.

To all the our partners and friends,

Happy Holidays From the Kontera Family!

By Mike Glover

Kontera was proud to be among the sponsors of The SF BIG iHack Golf Event. Our Senior Vice President, Bryan Everett, wins one for the team.

SF BIG is the premier group of advertising professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kontera is a proud sponsor of the group and has employees who volunteer for the group to help plan events and work to help out in their industry.

The SF BIG iHack Golf Event was the most highly attended gathering of Bay Area interactive advertising professionals in the last 3 years. The exciting event was attended by all of the area’s top ad agencies media companies and technology providers on hand, including Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. As a premium sponsor of the event, Kontera hosted 2 foursomes with guests from several leading ad agencies and online publishing companies. Kontera was well represented by a few members of the Business Development and Ad Sales teams as well Senior Vice President- Bryan Everett.

At the end of a day filled with many informal golf course meetings and news deals being struck, it was Kontera’s Bryan Everett who took home the day’s biggest prize on the par 3, third hole at Harding Park. Tremor Media was giving away a brand new iPhone for the golfer who struck their shot closest to the hole. With over 150 golfers vying for the prize, it was none other than Bryan Everett, who not only called his shot, but backed it up by knocking it just 4 feet away from the hole.

Keep an eye out for more posts about Kontera and SF BIG events.

Success is a long and draining process

It takes much hard work and imagination…

We are going to help you speed this up.

In the online world, the keyword is Exposure, Exposure, Exposure, and that’s exactly what we want to bring to your site.

So we are proud to present… Kontera’s Video Testimonial Contest

We get many wonderful emails from partners telling us how using ContentLinks has brought them great results in terms of their site’s revenue and exposure. We love these emails and want to take it to another level by seeing the face behind the blog
How to join: send us a short video telling of the benefits Kontera ContentLink has brought to your site/blog

The Prizes

By exposure we mean- your site advertised on other sites throughout our network. Kontera’s network includes thousands of publishers, and growing daily. Our ads are contextually targeted and so your ad campaign will appear in sites that display content relating to your category/niche. Read more on Kontera’s Advertising Solutions.

And here’s what you can win:

1. First prize: $1000 worth of free advertising for your site/ blog + Exposure for your site on Kontera website and on The Official Kontera Blog.
2. Second prize: $500 worth of free advertising for your site/blog
3. Third prize: $100 worth of free advertising for your site/blog

Testimonials can also be animated or flash-based- we also accept short stories in the form of comics.
Feel free to be as original and creative as you like, and did we mention fun?

Here’s how to enter:

STEP 1:

What you should include:

• Length of video/animated flash: up to 3 minutes
• Tell of how and when you started using Kontera
• What sort of impact and benefit ContentLink made for your site/blog
• Your name and website/company name
• Whatever other biographical details you want to include

STEP 2:

Upload your video to YouTube
Tag it: kontera, contentlink, In-Text, contextual, advertising, ad
Send the URL to video@kontera.com

Contest Rules

1. To enter the contest you must be a current Kontera publisher or advertiser.
2. By entering this Contest, you explicitly grant Kontera the right to use and publish the biographical information that you provide in the video. This does not include any other information Kontera has (such as email, street address, telephone number).
3. Submitted videos must not include any profanity or indecent images. Kontera does not work with adult content and gaming advertisers or publishers.
4. Submitted videos must comply with Kontera Terms and Conditions and YouTube Terms and Conditions.
5. Contest begins Dec 1, 2007 and ends March 1, 2008.

We are excited to participate in the biggest industry-wide tradeshow and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging. Kontera’s devoted teams of product managers, account managers and optimization experts are gearing up for this incredible event (Vegas, here we come!)

Assaf Henkin, Kontera’s Vice President, Product and Co-Founder will appear on two different panels.

Here’s a short schedule listing:
1ST PANEL: Thursday Nov 8, 10:15-11:45- Monetization Track
“Smart Ways to Monetize Your Blog”
Assaf Henkin, Brian Clark, Jeremy Shoemaker

2ND PANEL: Friday Nov 9, 10:15-11:45- Monetization Track
“Advanced Money-Making Strategies”
Ted Murphy, Ed Shull, Assaf Henkin

If you’re coming, you know what a rare opportunity it will be to witness a fine gathering of online companies, marketers, opportunists, bloggers and young entrepreneurs all in one location — and for once — in the real world. We meet each other in that virtual-online world often enough, but finally, this is face to face.
We invite anyone with a question, an answer, an idea or a general interest, to come and visit at our booth #413.

See you there, in person.

It’s that time of the year again…. Yes, early November brings Ad Tech New York with it and we are happy to be back at Ad Tech New York for the 5th time! It’s a great opportunity to get together with our publishers, advertisers, partners, and industry friends. Come visit us in Ad Tech New York, November 5th - 8th at booth number 1119.

We are all looking forward to being there and we would love to meet publishers, advertisers and anyone with a plain interest in In-Text technology. Come share with us your experience, suggestions, and issues.

Still time to sign up for BlogWorld! And we forgot to mention- insert this code - KONTERA15 - to get a 15% discount on the registration. Click to sign up!

Hope to see you all there.

The K-team