Findwhat.com today announced the launch of a new feature-FindWhat.com Campaign Scheduler. The Campaign Scheduler allows advertisers to schedule when their campaigns will run. This allows advertisers to better manage and control their online advertising by automatically activating and deactivating their FindWhat.com campaign within date ranges set by the advertisers themselves. Key features include a one step process to schedule campaign start and end dates, and the ability to change or delete previously scheduled campaign dates. [Press release: FindWhat.com Announces its New Campaign Scheduler - FindWhat]
Espotting, the leading paid-for listings player in Europe, powering 700 million searches a month to over 14,000 advertisers, to double minimum bid price. As of 1:00am on Tuesday 15th April 2003, Espotting will be increasing its minimum bid from 5p to 10p across their UK network of distribution partners. All bids between 5p and 9p will automatically be moved to 10p with their positions retained at that moment in time. If you are using their Auto-Bid Management tool, all cap prices between 5p and 9p will also automatically be moved to 10p. Espotting recommend you review your bids prior to the 15th April.
The Mailblocks service, available today, uses its patented technology to eliminate spam. Phil Goldman, a founder of WebTV and former Microsoft Vice President started Mailblocks to address the underserved consumer email market. Mailblocks’ service was architected around its patented Challenge/Response technology -- an effective blend of automated technology and human involvement that thwarts spam. Emails sent from new people who are not in the user's Addresses list are put in a Pending folder and automatically sent a request to authenticate (called a Challenge). Machine-generated email cannot reply to the Challenge email so the original email is never put into the consumer's Inbox. New users need respond only once to a Challenge and are recognized from then on. The only email users see is from recognized correspondents or new contacts who respond to the Challenge email. Mailblocks is offering its Standard Service for $9.95 per year with 12MB of storage and an Expanded Service with 50MB of storage for $24.95. Both offer attachment allowances of 6MB. As part of its initial debut, all new customers who sign up for the Standard Service will be granted charter member status and receive two bonus years of free service from the company. [Press release: New Spam-Free Personal Email Service Debuts - Mailblocks]