Ads for Adobe PDF

As if monetizing your PDFs wasn’t enough, Adobe and Yahoo! are giving you another great reason to participate in the Ads for Adobe PDF powered by Yahoo! beta: great prizes.

The prizes are for a contest---our attempt to find the best publishers of ad-enabled PDFs out there. To enter, just sign up for the beta and start publishing your ad-enabled PDFs. The winner will be determined by a combination of success metrics, such as the number of PDFs published, revenue, impressions, and other ingredients in the “secret sauce” we use in the beta.

Did we mention the great prizes? For the Grand Prize winner, we are offering the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection, which helps you to design across media---print, web, interactive, mobile, video, and film---in the most comprehensive, creative environment ever produced. The Grand Prize is valued at $2499. In addition, all publishers who participate will be entered into a raffle for $100 Yahoo! Search Advertising dollars, a great way to start publicizing your PDFs and increase your audience.

To enter, click over to the sign up page and send us your Ads for Adobe PDF powered by Yahoo! beta application. If you already have an account, just start publishing your ad-enabled PDFs! See the official contest rules.

Posted by Cynthia Tillo at 11:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The service will be down for routine maintenance this Saturday 4/12 between the hours of 4 pm to 12 midnight PST.
During this time, the website will still be available. However, you will experience delays in receiving back ad-enabled PDFs by email. This delay could be up to a 12 hour delay.

Posted by Cynthia Tillo at 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Based on publisher feedback, we have doubled the file size limit from 5 MB to 10 MB. Now you will be able to upload and ad-enable even more of those great PDFs - whether they are lengthy ebooks or content with rich images. Enjoy and please continue sharing your thoughts as this helps us improve the service for all.

Posted by Cynthia Tillo at 02:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

When you ad-enable a PDF, you may notice that there is an expiration date associated with each file. Upon hitting the expiration date, the PDF will be displayed without ads. The purpose of this expiration date is to prevent "orphan" PDFs that do not have a long shelf life from proliferating. This week, we have extended this expiration date to ~ 2 years for every PDF ad-enabled through the service. As a reminder, you will continue to receive email notifications prior to and on the day of the expiration date.

Posted by Cynthia Tillo at 04:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm sure you have heard about Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo. This is just a quick update that there are no changes planned during the beta period. And therefore, the service during beta will not be impacted in any way. Please continue to use the service and provide us your feedback so that we can improve it in future releases. Any questions, feel free to drop me a line.

Posted by Cynthia Tillo at 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We've just released 1.0.1 today! This is a minor dot release that is focused on bug fixes. Here are just a few highlights of the main issues fixed and improvements made:

* Performance improvements for the entire PDF registration process

* Improved content analysis of the PDF for better ad targeting. This includes improvements in
- filtering of insignicant content themes
- filtering of numbers and graphic characters
- filtering of page header and footer templates

* Progress bar indicator when uploading a PDF in Safari browser

* Corrected sort order for dates while a PDF is in "pending" registration state

* Updates and clarifications in the Help documentation

We hope you'll take advantage of these new improvements. Any feedback on this release is always appreciated.

Posted by Cynthia Tillo at 05:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)