One of the challenges that Google DFP (Ad manager) account managers especially those who are new often face is to set up different Ad banners for different regions or countries and to test them out. The challenge is not to set up different Ad banners since that can be easily done by creating different line items and selecting target criteria and setting Geography. Challenge is to verify whether correct banners appear in targeted region or country? One can easily verify the Ad banners for the country or region he or she is browsing in but to verify Ad banners in other countries either you need a remote server in all those regions or countries or use some good proxy. You may also seek help of your friends if you are lucky enough to have friends in all those countries.
If you don’t have access to all the things mentioned above, try this simple technique and you would be able to see Ad banners from most parts of the world. Visit some performance testing website which has option to select country and which also provides screen shots in result set.
Two such websites are http://www.webpagetest.org/ and http://loads.in/. By using these websites you would be able to verify which Ad banners appear in different countries. Using this technique you can test any public web page and make sure that Ad is rendering fine without any hiccups.
World’s second largest online presentation sharing website authorSTREAM, today, launched a new presentation embed which can automatically decide on the fly as to which player to show to your blog readers. On flash devices, a flash player capable of playing animation, transitions and audio is rendered while viewers of non flash devices like iPad see a HTML player which sans animation and sound but displays text and images.
authorSTREAM has created it’s own niche as a presentation player which replicates slide show experience online by retaining the basic elements of a PowerPoint like animations, transitions and sound.
Below is complete press release from authorSTREAM:
authorSTREAM, an online presentation-sharing platform, has just released Dynamic Embed, a new feature that works smoothly with all flash and non-flash devices, thereby empowering blog and website owners by relieving them of the former hassle of reformatting their presentations for multiple PowerPoint-sharing platforms. Even more, it offers the best possible viewing experience for users of blogs and websites, resulting in satisfied site visitors that will return again and again.
With Dynamic Embed, bloggers and website owners no longer have to modify their presentations to suit the needs of various viewing platforms, because they can easily embed their presentations in a way that can be viewed on all devices—including flash devices like personal computers and laptops, as well as non-flash devices like iPhones and iPads. In addition, this intelligent embed automatically detects whether a viewer is using a flash-supported device or a non-flash-supported device and then renders a compatible presentation, without any need for manual formatting. Dynamic Embed also supports animations, transitions, sounds, rehearsed timings, and other special effects on flash devices like computers and laptops.
Harman Singh, CEO of authorSTREAM says, “This will have far-reaching benefits for bloggers and website owners, who earlier had to sacrifice animations and other multimedia effects from their presentation so that it met the requirements of online sharing platforms. The bloggers [and website owners] were left with no option but to choose static presentation output on their blogs and websites, as it could be viewed on all devices. Not anymore with Dynamic Embed.”
Users of Dynamic Embed can easily access the feature from an authorSTREAM tab conveniently located next to the uploaded presentation. From there, users can even customize the feature with their preference of color theme, border color, embed size, border size, and more, giving their presentations a unique appearance.
About authorSTREAM: With more than 4 million registered users and 5 million monthly visitors, authorSTREAM is the second largest slide-sharing platform. Launched in 2007, it is a free online community that gives members access to thousands of presentations on hundreds of subjects. With authorSTREAM, you can upload your PowerPoint presentations for free and share them with your friends, students, colleagues, and peers across the globe.
