Mar/100
Image Space Media’s WordPress Plugin
Are you a WordPress-based publisher? Perhaps, you've been wondering why we haven’t built a plugin for WordPress users.
We have been thinking about how to make things easier for you. Things in the pipeline include a shiny new publisher panel and you guessed it, a brand spankin’ new plugin just for the WordPress community.
Before, implementing our technology was a bit on the technical side for average users. Now setting up our in-image advertising solution through WordPress is simple and easy.
Just install a snippet of our code via our WordPress plugin in your pages. Our system matches relevant ads with your images based on your metadata. Once you’ve activated the plugin you’re ready to start earning money!
Download the plugin here and spread the word!
Jan/100
Welcome to Image Space Media’s Newsletter for January 2010, the Happy New Decade Edition!
| IMAGE SPACE MEDIA News for January 2010  thanks to www.allbestwallpapers.com for the lovely strawberry cocktail Happy New Decade 2010! Your input helps us develop every aspect of our technology, from the layout to the content of our ads. Please keep it coming! If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at info@imagespacemedia.com. in this issue:
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Jan/100
We’re Funded!
It is with great pride that we announce our Series A. Our growth has been so astonishing thanks to all of our great publishers. It's time to really blow it up! Thanks for your help so far and we're looking forward to working with you all for a long time.
The round was led by New Atlantic Ventures. Mike Gordon, co-founder of Limelight Networks, also participated and will be joining the board. Full release is below.
Image Space Media Receives $2.9 Million In First Round Financing from Leading Media Industry Investors
Funds Will Support Publisher Network Growth and Development of Leading Edge Technology
New York, NY, January 19, 2010—Image Space Media (www.imagespacemedia.com), the leading provider of in-image advertising for the Internet, has received $2.9 million in first-round financing led by New Atlantic Ventures (NAV). Michael Gordon, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Limelight Networks, Inc. (LLNW), will also join the Board of Directors.
“Publishers are constantly seeking effective methods for monetizing their site content. Image Space Media’s ad overlay platform provides a source for incremental revenue that doesn’t compete with other revenue sources,” said Jesse Chenard, CEO, who most recently co-founded leading online video advertising network, Tremor Media. “Given the huge numbers of images across the Internet, the potential for scale is just incredible.”
With more than 34 million unique visitors each month, Image Space Media places relevant ads on the lower fourth of 7.5 million images across the Internet and serves hundreds of millions of impressions per month.
"Site visitors consistently engage with site images and rarely view banners anymore. Image Space Media has identified a solution to banner blindness and is getting great performance from their ads,” said Scott Johnson, Managing Partner at NAV. "Publishers need incremental revenue now more than ever so we are extremely bullish on the Company’s prospects."
Publishers gain incremental revenue through relevant, precisely targeted ads. The transparent ads are user-controlled and only appear when the site visitor mouses over an image. "Image Space Media’s advanced platform is delivering outstanding results for an expanding group of publishers and advertisers and is poised for even more significant growth,” said Gordon. “Website images represent a significant untapped revenue opportunity for publishers and a new, high-engagement opportunity for advertisers."
About Image Space Media
posted by Thomson on The Design Mag
Image Space Media is the leading provider of in-image advertising for
the Internet. Image Space Media reaches more than 32 million unique
users worldwide each month with its ad overlay solution. Image Space
Media superimposes relevant advertisements over more than 7 million
images across the Internet and serves hundreds of millions of
impressions per month. Image Space Media provides publishers with a
method for adding incremental revenue to their sites and advertisers
an additional pipeline to reach their customers. Founded in 2008 and
headquartered in New York, Image Space Media maximizes web
advertisement space without compromising content integrity. For more
information please visit www.imagespacemedia.com, follow
@imagespacemedia on Twitter.
About New Atlantic Ventures
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New Atlantic Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm
targeting investments in technology companies in emerging mass
markets. Through its offices in Cambridge, MA and Reston, VA, NAV
targets companies in the Eastern United States, while also pursuing
select opportunities nationwide. The NAV portfolio includes
investments in Pontiflex, Stitcher, GateRocket, Mpowerplayer, TVU
Networks, Koofers, Secure Command and FashionPlaytes. For more
information, visit www.navfund.com.
Dec/090
Image Space Media Newsletter: December 2009
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IMAGE SPACE MEDIA News for December 2009 
Welcome to Image Space Media's newsletter for December 2009. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EDITION!! WIN THIS CAMERA! As usual, a big thank you to our publishers using Image Space Media's technology in beta, and for your feedback. Your input helps us identify what areas we need to improve upon. With your help and feedback we've been steadily working to improve our technology. If you have any comments or questions please send them to info@imagespacemedia.com. in this issue:
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Nov/090
Image Space Media Newsletter: November 2009
Welcome to Image Space Media's newsletter for November 2009.
As usual, we want to provide news about our services and answers to some frequently asked questions.
We genuinely appreciate your participation in Image Space Media's technology in beta, and for your feedback. Your input helps us identify what areas we need to improve upon. With your help and feedback we've been steadily working to improve our technology. If you have any comments or questions please send them to info@imagespacemedia.com.
in this issue:
- why the name change?
- what's a taxonomy engine?
- better ads and higher payouts
- publishers of the week
- giving thanks
Oct/091
Take Control of Your In-Picture Ad Campaigns
In addition to being the first and leading provider of in-picture advertising technology, Image Space Media also offers publishers an innovative feature that allows them to control which images their in-picture ads appear on.
The Image Manager allows publishers to take complete control of their in-picture advertising campaigns. Within this control panel, users can view the number of impressions, clicks, and earnings on their domains and add additional keywords to increase the relevancy of the ads on a particular image. The Image Manager provides a great deal of flexibility so that publishers can manage their visitors’ experience.
Don't believe us? Get started with Image Space Media this weekend and check it out for yourself!
Oct/090
Picad Media Is Now Image Space Media
Welcome to Image Space Media, formerly known as Picad Media. To give our clients a better sense of what we do, we have changed our name to Image Space Media. Our new name better describes with the essence of our services: giving publishers an opportunity to monetize the image space.
Today as we are roll out with our new name as we continue to unveil improvements to our in-picture advertising service. In the next few weeks expect faster loading times on your ads, more keyword possibilities to derive more relevant ads, and better analytics and tools for publisher ads.
We value the partnerships we’ve made with publishers and you can count on the same service with new and improved service modifications. By the end of the year we hope to complete the Beta stage and fully release Image Space Media products. Stay tuned to hear more about how Image Space is growing and is changing the ways in which publishers derive income from online advertising.
Oct/090
Monetizing Your Tweets
In light of the Federal Trade Commission's new guidelines regarding social media marketing, here is a comprehensive list of three organizations that are helping users monetize their Twitter pages while staying ethical:
1. Twittad is a "social media affinity network" for Twitter advertising. It offers Twitter 
users anywhere from $2 to $2,000 to post paid endorsements to their accounts. Twittad requires users to disclose the ads by posting a Twittad badge to their profile and including a link to 'spon.in' in their post to indicate that there is a 'sponsorship in update.'
2. Ad.ly automatically sends one tweet to your feed every other day for a week. (Users must explicitly approve these tweets first.) At the end of each Ad.ly tweet, (Ad by http://Ad.ly) appears to let readers know that it is an advertisement. Ad.ly's impressive list of registered publishers includes celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Greg Grunberg, and Nicole Richie.
3. IZEA's SponsoredTweets is another platform that is connecting advertisers with Tweeters. Users set the price they want companies to pay them and then wait for ad offers. SponsoredTweets promises 100% disclosure and belives in "safe, ethical sponsored tweets" through their disclosure engine (below).
All of these ad services are meeting the basic requirements of the FTC's new guidelines. However, their standards of disclosure vary, which may end up confusing the average Twitter user. We wonder whether 140 characters is enough room to accurately notify readers of the message's paid sponsorship. And will filling your Twitter feed with ads turn off followers? What do you think?
Sep/090
Did You Know?
Image Space Media works alongside other ad technologies to generate incremental revenue for your website. This means that you can implement our in-picture advertising technology in addition to other ad programs such as Google AdSense, banner advertisements, and "affiliate" programs. To learn about these ad programs and other strategies to earn money from your website, check out our Blogging for Bucks article!
Jul/095
Blogging for Bucks
In difficult economic times, blogging is a great way to earn some extra cash. Image Space Media would like to share a few tips and tricks for beginning bloggers, or anyone looking to earn additional revenue from their presence on the Web.
The most common strategy to generate income on a blog is selling advertisements. Google AdSense (www.google.com/adsense) is probably the easiest and most popular tool for selling ads. This free ad service allows bloggers to select several ads that match their blogs’ content and then pays them according to how many readers click on the ads. BlogAds, a service that connects bloggers with potential advertisers, is also a useful tool for selling advertising.
Another easy way to monetize your blog is to help companies sell their products through “affiliate” programs. These programs place an ad from an online company like Amazon.com or eBay on your site. Bloggers earn money every time readers click the ad, go to the company’s website, and make a purchase. The revenue generated from affiliate programs is called a referral fee and can earn as much as 10% commission per sale. Two popular affiliate programs are LinkShare (www.linkshare.com) and Commission Junction (www.cj.com).
Bloggers can also ask for contributions. Some readers are willing to show monetary appreciation for their favorite blogs; others may support a particular cause or issue the blogger frequently discusses and want to donate. Online payment services such as PayPal (www.paypal.com), Amazon's Honor System (www.amazon.com/honorsystem), and BitPass (www.bitpass.com) can add a contribution collection button to your blog and e-mail you when visitors donate.
One great feature of Image Space Media (www.imagespacemedia.com) is that it works alongside all of these strategies and can generate incremental revenue for your blog. Our in-picture advertising technology is completely compatible with Google AdSense and allows your visitors to view clean, relevant ads in an unobtrusive way. (To see a demo, click here: http://www.picadtesting.com.) Bloggers can view the number of impressions, clicks, and earnings on their domains and are paid on a pay-per-click model. The technology is incredibly flexible and lets bloggers manage their visitors’ experience on their site. Get started with Image Space Media today: http://www.imagespacemedia.com/publishers/register!