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Canned Banners co-founder Chris Mears authors book on TextMate 30 Oct 2012 | 03:16 am
We here at Canned Banners take our coding very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that we write whole books about software development. Chris, co-founder and lead developer, is the proud author of ...
New SWF compiler feature: better image optimization 16 Oct 2012 | 11:59 pm
We’ve added a new feature to our Ad Builder that compresses PNGs to smaller file sizes while at the same time maintaining transparency. This will give our customers a great deal more flexibility whe...
Demo night for Canned Banners API 16 Oct 2012 | 02:52 am
We did a first-ever public demo of the Canned Banners API at SF New Tech last week. This particular SF New Tech event was centered around e-commerce, and it was a pleasure sharing the stage with e-c...
Streamlined sign-up 15 Sep 2012 | 02:07 am
On top of the weeks and hours that the Canned Banners ad builder already saves you when creating ads, we’ve just shaved several more seconds off the process! We streamlined our sign-up and login f...
New display ad builder demo 12 Sep 2012 | 02:02 am
Our old demo was getting to be quite a relic, so here’s a long-overdue update. In under 5 minutes, learn how to: Create a display ad Save an unfinished banner Check out and download finished banner ...
3 useful ways to get better display ad results with WhatRunsWhere 7 Sep 2012 | 02:12 am
WhatRunsWhere tracks the ads that your competitors are running. Earlier this year, we highlighted MixRank, a similar service. WhatRunsWhere and its ilk are interesting tools to us because they’re ...
New customer Simpli.fi, plus a few details on “element-level targeting” 27 Aug 2012 | 09:18 pm
How excited were we when Simpli.fi made some ads with our ad builder? Answer: very! Us. Excited. Here are two of the ads they made (the 728×90 has been scaled down to fit our blog…sorry if the i...
10 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Banner Ads 24 Aug 2012 | 04:24 am
Today we did a little webcast with B2B daily deals site GroupPrice.com. Lots of fun making crappy ads just so we can tear them apart. Watch the video. And dig the hip “low fi” audio!
New banner ad template designed by Chix Creative 23 Aug 2012 | 03:48 am
We’ve launched a new kind of partnership! The team at Chix Creative designed a new banner ad template for us. Awwww…. Given that Canned Banners is still an all-male team, all our ad templates ...
Buy credits and make banner ads for as little as $10 each 10 Jul 2012 | 12:44 am
We’ve added new pricing options to our Basic Ad Builder. You can now buy credits (1 credit = 1 banner) at a discount from our standard price of $25 per banner: 1 credit = 1 banner Pay-as-you-g...
