Reporting: Back on Track September 16th

Hey Publishers,

We are pleased to announce that our Publisher Portal reporting is in the process of being rehabilitated.  Over the course of September, we will be releasing improvements throughout our Publisher Portal in order to provide you with estimated earnings, payments and balance reporting data.

The first release of this rehabilitation will encompass estimated earnings data.  You will once again be able to view your daily estimated earnings, both within the Publisher Portal 'Home' page reporting snapshot pod, and the more comprehensive 'View Reports' tool. 

Released: Wednesday, September 16th

Notable Improvements:

- 'View Reports' will allow you to view historic earnings data within a 24-month date range

- Publishers previously unable to view estimated earnings data due to usage of Placement IDs above 99 will be able to view an aggregate total of their estimated earnings, currently labeled as '<not-yet-defined> (#)'

 

- 'View Reports' will allow you to download your estimated earnings data in csv, xls, and xml format (coming soon)

We know that many of you have taken advantage of our offer to manually provide you with comprehensive earnings reports, and hope that you continue to request the reporting that you need throughout this process.  Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for snappy release notifications! 

The Shopzilla Publisher Team

 

Catalog API: Migration Period Ending September 15th

Hey Publishers,

July 1, 2009 we retired our old Catalog API, ending support of this platform.  The old Catalog API platform will NO LONGER be accessible beyond 11:59pm PST September 14, 2009. 

To incorporate sponsored shopping content through the Shopzilla Publisher Program Catalog API beyond September 15th, you must utilize our new Catalog API platform.

The majority of our Catalog API users have completed migration to the new Catalog API platform.  We've made efforts to reach out to each of your individually, and have received much feedback through the course of the migration, implementing several of the features requested.  For tips to help complete your migration, and news on future developments, please tune into the Catalog API section of our blog.

For those of you who are not familiar with our Catalog API, this product provides advanced publishers with intuitive access to BizRate's inventory of cataloged products and merchant offers through a query-based web service accepting various parameters, allowing publishers to filter based on their website's shopping content needs.  Based on these publisher-supplied parameters, customized BizRate shopping content is returned within an XML response.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions, particularly as it relates to your migration to the new Catalog API. 

The Shopzilla Publisher Team

Earnings Report Returning an Error

Hey Publishers. 

You have probably noticed by now that we are experiencing some technical difficulties with our earnings report.  We understand how frustrating it is to all of you who login to your accounts but are unable to view your clicks and earnings.  Please be assured that your traffic is being tracked accurately and that we are logging all impression, redirect and earnings data in our database. 

This is a very high priority problem and our team are currently working on rebuilding the entire earnings report structure. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us if you need a certain report, and we can manually pull it from the system for you. To request an earning report please contact Bryan Byrne at bbyrne@shopzilla.com.

We thank you all very much for your patience and understanding while we work through this issue.

New Categories in Appliances, Jewelry and Home & Garden

Attention Publishers: We have released new categories in Appliances, Jewelry and Home & Garden. 

If you are currently using our FTP Data Feeds, please download the new category IDs (atom IDs) below.  If you are pulling only specific files for desired categories, you may need to include some of these new atom IDs!

Download New Atoms_08-06-09

If you are currently using our dynamic assets or Catalog API, please check out our new catagory IDs below.  If you are currently using ads where you have specified a category ID, you might need to update your assets since now we have new category IDs available for use!

Download New Categories_08-06-09

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about our new categories or about how their availability may impact you or your website.

Shopzilla Publisher Program on Twitter

Just as a healthy reminder to all of our Publishers that we are available to be your friend on Twitter. We started using Twitter over a year ago, and it has become a valuable tool for us to share performance announcements, industry news, hints and tips with our Publishers and anyone else interested in seeing what we have to say! We also make note to give 'Follow Friday' shout outs to our Publishers from time to time. If you already use Twitter, send us a message to let us know who you are. That way, we can add you and send any valuable information we think you would appreciate!

Our alias is @szpublisher. See you there!