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When we first launched Adworks here at Viddler we only had one way for you to give us your creative for your advertising campaigns, upload it. Even if you already uploaded it, you had to upload it again if you wanted to use it again. Did it work, sure, was it a best practice, obviously not.

We have pushed out the next release of Adworks that fixes a few minor bugs in the system as well giving the advertiser the ability to:

• Upload a new creative
• Use an already existing creative
• Enter a URL to your creative and we will download it
• Enter a DART or other textual ad tag

This will make your experience more user friendly and help streamline your campaign submissions. You can log into your Viddler account at Adworks and start creating campaigns here.

Below are a few screen shots of the different options you have to send us your creative when creating your campaign:

Choose Your Creative Type:

DART / Textual Tag:

Creative from URL:

Select a Previous Creative:

Upload a New Creative:

Want to get started today? Click here to log into your Viddler account at Adworks.

About this Project

First, let me take some time to introduce myself, my name is Jeff Johns (@phpfunk on twitter) and I started here at Viddler back in May. One of the first projects I received in front of me after fetching everyone’s coffee, sharpening pencils and going on soda runs was a little project called Adworks.

Adworks has evolved day-to-day here at Viddler from a very simple concept for placing advertising orders online to what it is today; a self-service system that serves multiple facets.

The project has taken me a few months, from learning about ad servers, placements, insertion orders, etc.; to actually designing and coding the application. I also had the opportunity to do the marketing and the intro video for this product as well.

It has been quite a challenge, but quite a reward at the same time. I actually already have a to-do list of about 30 items that we will release at various stages as upgrades for this application. Stay tuned for some exciting times in video advertising, if you’re into that sort of thing

Now for my starchy white collar side to take over and explain what Adworks is as of now and what it will become as time moves on.

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