Category: Press Releases

Beta has left the building

Rejoice! Canned Banners officially left beta today just slightly more than a year after going live. Read the official press release.

A slew of changes came into effect with this release:

Here’s a before-and-after look at our homepage:
 
New homepage
 

 
Previous homepage
 

 
And here’s the new banner download page:
 

 

1 Comment by on January 17, 2011
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Canned Banners private label solution debuts with Digital Throttle as partner


 
Exciting news today! Canned Banners is officially partnered with Digital Throttle, a vertical ad network with an audience of over 6 million motorsports enthusiasts.

The really neat thing about this partnership is that Digital Throttle will be using Canned Banners’ spankin’ new private label solution. How it works: Digital Throttle will have its own special version of the Canned Banners website with Digital Throttle’s branding applied—this gives Digital Throttle advertisers a much smoother user experience as they browse the Digital Throttle website and create banner ads.

And believe it or not, Digital Throttle clients will be able to use Canned Banners for free! Aside from our quasi-competitors AdReady and Google, there isn’t any other ad network that offers free Flash ad creation as a client benefit.

Lastly but not leastly, we modified our banner ad templates for Digital Throttle to make them more relevant for its customer base of motorsports advertisers. All we had to do was drop in some new images, update the text, and pick different customization options (color, font, wildcard), and presto! Completely new ad templates. Goes to show you how extremely easy and flexible Canned Banners is.

Click the thumbnail below to see a full screenshot of what our private label solution looks like (note cool little “powered by Canned Banners” logo in the upper right):
 

 
Read our press release (PDF).
 

No Comments by on September 29, 2010
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Online ad sales reps, pay attention

Read below or download the PDF version.

Self-serve ad creation platform Canned Banners debuts free ad sharing feature

Enhancement allows advertisers and ad sales reps to create and share Flash banner ads online

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—September 15, 2010—Canned Banners (www.cannedbanners.com) released version 1.3 of its self-service ad creation platform today. This release of the web-based service now allows advertisers and ad sales reps to create banner ads for free and share them online with colleagues, clients, or prospects.

Canned Banners simplifies online display advertising by automating the often costly and time-consuming process of developing banner ads. With Canned Banners, small businesses and marketers can quickly create professional-looking banner ads by adding their own images and a few sentences of text. Today’s release maintains the platform’s simple step-by-step ad creation process while giving users more flexibility to save, edit, and share their ads.

Myles Younger, co-founder and head of marketing said: “The ability to make a banner ad and share it online is a more useful feature than it might seem. It can be an extremely powerful sales and prospecting tool for online ad sales reps. When a sales rep can quickly put together a high-quality sample ad for a local business, they’ve got a much more effective way of demonstrating that a professional online ad campaign doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.”

The sharing feature is completely free of charge. Canned Banners users are only required to pay when exporting their finished banner ads as SWF files.

In order to share a banner, users first need to create an account, build a banner ad, and save it. Then, whenever users view or edit the banner, they can simply copy and paste the URL into an email, instant message, or social sharing tool.

A sample ad created and shared using Canned Banners can be viewed here: www.cannedbanners.com/saved/view/47
 

Press Contact:
Myles Younger
Co-founder, Marketing and Business Development
myles.younger@cannedbanners.com

About Canned Banners:
Canned Banners (www.cannedbanners.com) allows small businesses and marketers to quickly create their own professional-looking Flash banner ads. Users select from a variety of templates and add their own text, logo, and images. Canned Banners offers small businesses access to sophisticated Flash banner design at a low price, and offers larger companies a cheaper and more nimble alternative to the agency process.
 

No Comments by on September 15, 2010
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Read all about it! Canned Banners launches four months ago!

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Canned Banners allows anyone to create high-quality banner ads

New service offers fast and cheap method of building display ad campaigns

SAN FRANCISCO, California—January 1, 2010—Canned Banners went live today at www.cannedbanners.com. The service offers inexpensive, professionally designed Flash banner ad templates that can be customized in minutes with no technical expertise. Canned Banners emphasizes high-quality design and offers users a clean, sophisticated interface, differentiating the service from other online banner-building tools.

Myles Younger, co-founder and head of marketing said: “Canned Banners makes building banner ads a no-brainer. Any business that’s ever been frustrated by the cost or hassle of developing banner ads is going to be amazed at how easy it is to create a banner ad with Canned Banners.”

Canned Banners promises to be a boon to companies of all sizes. The service is perfect for small businesses that want sophisticated design at a low price. And professional marketers at medium-to-large companies now have a simple way to bypass the agency process and rapidly deploy and update banner ad campaigns. Finally, Canned Banners is far cheaper than hiring an ad agency or Flash designer, so by cutting costs, the service provides an immediate boost to the ROI of any banner ad campaign.

Canned Banners also represents an exciting new way for publisher websites and banner ad networks to sell their inventories of banner ad space. By removing a major cost barrier, Canned Banners will attract low-budget advertisers who may never have considered display advertising. The flexibility offered by Canned Banners will allow larger companies to run more frequent and timely campaigns. By combining self-service banner ad creation with innovative techniques such as display ad retargeting, sellers of banner ad space are likely to see an explosion in demand.

Canned Banners is currently free while in Beta.

 

Press Contact:
Myles Younger
Co-founder
myles.younger@cannedbanners.com

About Canned Banners:
Canned Banners allows small businesses and marketing professionals to quickly create their own professional-looking Flash banner ads. Users select from a variety of templates and then add their own text, logo, and images. Canned Banners offers small businesses access to sophisticated Flash banner design at a low price, and offers larger companies a cheaper and more nimble alternative to the agency process. Start building your banner ads at www.cannedbanners.com.
 

No Comments by on May 4, 2010
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