Holidays are the best time to slow down the fast pace of life and to appreciate the moment.  We’ve had a great year at Kontera and we’d like to take this moment to thank all of our partners who’ve been with us along the way.  Our partners have contributed greatly to our network as your voices have been heard, helping us continuously shape and improve our products and service.  We’re anticipating a great upcoming year of 2009, with many exciting additions and developments within our network.

For those of you who haven’t joined Kontera yet, we’re kicking off the new year with a great bonus offer:

Reach $75 in earnings, and we’ll round your balance up to $100!

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Find out more about the bonus offer.

Happy Holidays from the Kontera Team!

We all know that images add much value to our websites and blogs; images enhance visual appearance and promote readership. Still, quite honestly, looking for the right image can be time consuming… and then there is the cost and the issue of copyrights—all of which often translates to “forget it- too much headache.”

This is why we like PicApp.

PicApp is an application that enables online publishers to add the best stock photos to their content for free without the copyright or licensing worries.

Here are a few great things PicApp enables you to do:

• Access an inventory of over 20 million images, in every imaginable content category, with 10K images being updated by the minute.

• Get free and legal use of the most recent editorial images from top content providers.

• Get images already tagged with keywords and to promote indexing and SEO.

• Register your search term on PicApp RSS feeder (for example- Brad Pitt, red roses, babies, NFL, etc..) and receive notifications on your RSS tool reader whenever PicApp gets new images that match the search term.

And last but definitely not least:

• You can now download the PicApp WordPress plug-in and use it to search and easily add premium, free and legal images straight from your editor into your post!

With the plug-in, PicApp will be fully integrated into your editing flow, so you will no longer be required to open new browser and look for images.

The PicApp plugin is a quick and easy way to add images to posts, Just take a look at the demo.

PicApp is available to answer any questions and welcomes any feedback at discover@picapp.com

The holiday season is the best time to try out new things.  If you’ve been considering joining Kontera, there’s no time like the present.

To help get the ball rolling, we have a new holiday sign-up offer for you:

Reach $75 in earnings, and we’ll round your balance up to $100

That’s an extra $25 on us!

How to do it?
1.    Join Kontera by Jan 15th.
2.    Sit back and relax.
3.    Reach $75 in your account, and we’ll send you a check for $100!

As a Kontera publisher you’ll benefit from:

• Quick and easy integration;
• Higher CTR & revenues;
• Adsense compatible ads;
• Multiple payment possibilities.

This offer is available for sign-ups through Jan 15th 2009. So, the sooner you sign-up with Kontera the sooner you can start earning.

Happy Holidays!

Become a Kontera Publisher Now!

* You must register through the sign up link on this page in order to be eligible for the bonus.

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You can still join the party and get a $25 bonus for each friend you bring. Kontera’s “Invite a Friend” program was launched last April and has proven to be a great success. We’d like to thank the many Kontera partners who have taken part in the program.

So, what are you waiting for? Invite your friends and receive a $25 bonus from us for each friend who becomes an active Kontera publisher. Inviting your friends is now easier than ever:

1. Log into Kontera’s Publisher Center using your user name and password.
2. Click on the “Invite a Friend” button on the right.



3. Type in your friends’ names and send away. Your friends will sign up through the link on your email.
4. Make sure your friends sign up using the same email address to which you sent the message.

-To learn more about the “Invite a Friend” Program please visit our Knowledgebase.

-“Invite a Friend” Terms & Conditions

We all like to recommend our favorite websites, articles we find interesting or other attention-grabbing news stories.  In fact, social networking largely thrives on the idea that we love to share our web findings with our online friends.  Today, some of us at Kontera gathered to give recommendations of our favorite sites.  Thought you’d be interested in paying a visit:

Adi Elimelech, a Kontera Ruby Developer, recommends www.tripit.com. “Tripit is a site that helps you to quickly organize all your travel plans, and saves you the job by creating an actual itinerary of your trip.  I discovered it after some of my friends used it to plan their trip.  It’s a great website and an original utility- like having a personal automated travel agent”.

Gabi Peles, Kontera’s Director, Product & Operations browses through a relatively new engine, www.mahalo.com. “I discovered Mahalo not long ago and I have come to appreciate it. Mahalo is a kind of a user generated search-engine, where each page provides a rich description of the keyword sought”.

Ariel Gluckson, Publisher Support Coordinator tells about Woot.com. “Woot.com is a site I visit often to see what’s today’s buy. I think it takes a creative edge to blow-out sales tactics. Every day Woot lists one product for a 24 hour time period and sells it at a price well under the retail.  I’d totally recommend anyone to at least have a look”.

Mika Tal, Publisher Services Manager recommends  k21st.wordpress.com.  “K21 is a blog that aggregates all the best of new thought innovation in practically every known field. It includes everything that goes under the conception of futurism, bringing the latest advancements in various fields and incorporating them into one accessible arsenal of knowledge”.

Barak Levi, a QA team member spends his free time learning Ruby (a true programming devotee). His recommendations are all Ruby related. “I recommend www.ruby-lang.org and railscasts.com to anyone interested in getting into the world of Ruby.  These sites contain documentation and guides and screencasts that tell you how to start from zero and build your way up to becoming a top Ruby on Rails programmer.”

Many good things came out of the OMMA Video and Publish one-day Conferences, and we are glad for having had the opportunity to participate in the event.

Diana Kost, the Assistant Search Planner at Neo@Ogilvy, New York is the winner of Kontera’s raffle.  She took home with her a brand new Wii and came back to tell about it.  Read what she has to say:

Two things entered my mind when I heard I won the Nintendo Wii that Kontera raffled off at the OMMA Publish event in June.  Please view said “things” below.

1. Thank you Kontera! There is a benefit to carrying my business card around and
2. I can’t wait to give it to Mama Kost! (my mom)

And so after I omg’ed to all of my friends and co-workers, I called my mom to let her in on the good news. It was, after all, almost her birthday.
Me: Guess what.
Mom:  What?
Me: I won a Wii and I am giving it to you for your birthday!!
Mom: Really? Thanks!!!
Me: And you call me selfish.
Mom: Thank you. I don’t.
Me: Wait. Should I have told you I bought it? I am a working woman.
Mom: No. You’re poor. Winning is good, too.
Me: Cool. So can I borrow the car?
Mom: No.
Me: But I just bought you a Wii. How rude.

To really understand the joy behind her exclamation fueled thanks, you must understand my mom. You see, at age 61, my mom, Isabella, is a gamer. Her first system was the regular Nintendo, the one where you’d have to blow on the games when they stopped working. She mastered the Mario Brothers, all of the Zelda’s and would genuinely get mad at me if I even dared play one of her games. Because the system would be in my room, I’d have to make sure she saved before I switched to the TV.

As time and technology progressed, so did Mama Kost’s taste. So much in fact that we ended up purchasing every single Nintento system ever made just so she could get her Zelda fix. I tried to nourish her addiction with new games and while she wasn’t that keen on all of them, she did really enjoy Prince of Persia. She beat them all.
With the Wii in hand, I expect my mom to get just as addicted. Not only because it’s new, but also because she can work out while she plays. After receiving the gift, she made her way to the store to get Super Mario Brothers. She was assured it was different but upon coming home and playing, she realized it was the same game she had already beaten with another system. But don’t fret. Mama Kost will soon be an expert in golf, tennis and will likely progress to be the lead singer of someone’s Guitar Hero band.  Probably her own.

Kontera will be sponsoring the LA Interactive Advertising Tiki-themed Happy Hour this month at the Canal Club in Venice, California.

Hula dancers and surf music will set the mood at Venice’s top dining spot for beach inspired cuisine. So put on your flip flops, and come out to meet representatives from Kontera and network with LA’s internet advertising professionals.

Date & Time: August 14th, 2008
7 pm-12 am

Location: Canal Club

2025 Pacific Ave. Venice, Ca.

On July 1st Kontera launched a hot deal for new publishers:
Sign up* with Kontera during July 2008 and get 100% REV SHARE for the month!

We’re here to remind you that summer is at its peak and so is your chance to earn big cash.  You don’t need to do much, just sign up to Kontera, add ContentLink ads to your site or blog, and we’ll take care of the rest…

With 2 weeks left for the offer, what are you waiting for? Sign up* today and get 100% Rev Share till the end of July!

*Offer is valid only for sign-ups through the promotional page.

July is a hot month, in more ways than one

Kontera is launching a scorching hot deal for new publishers:

Sign up* with Kontera during July 2008 and get 100% REV SHARE for the month!

This is a one month offer, so don’t waste any time!

The sooner you sign up*, the sooner you can start earning 100% of all revenue generated by your site! That’s twice the normal 50% terms.

Sign up* now and take advantage of this amazing limited-time offer!

*Offer is valid only for sign-ups through the promotional page.