BannerSnack is getting better!

We’ve listened to you and taken many requests into consideration for the past 6 months. That was easy, because we feel we speak the same language. What wasn’t that easy instead was to decide what features should we implement first. And, of course, actually implementing the features we agreed on…

What are those new features? I can’t tell you that right now. But you’ll be able to see them sometime next week.

Anyway, the new application is more powerful than ever and simpler to use. I can’t wait to see your feedback on it!

It has been almost a year since we launched BannerSnack. Our goal was to help people make their own flash banners without flash coding. We wanted to make flash animations as simple to create as text, audio, video and image content for all Internet users, enabling them to create true multimedia content easily.

Before our first birthday we wanted to see how BannerSnack is doing and what the numbers are saying. Here are some of the facts:

Our banner widgets get about 1 million views per day. We’re talking about those hosted on our servers, and not those downloaded as SWF which we can’t track.

BannerSnack widgets hit 1.56 million views on November 9. It’s our record until now.

The number of daily views is growing in a fast way.

Every month new members subscribe to use BannerSnack and PhotoSnack. We hope they are pleased with them.

Most of our members use banners on their MySpace pages and on their blogs. Most of them come from USA, Brazil and Italy.

We’re very proud we’ve managed to gather such a large community around BannerSnack and we hope we’re going to do better in the future. Thank you for using BannerSnack.

How could I monetize my blog?

This is a question many bloggers ask themselves when their “careers” reach a certain point. The truth is, it’s not easy. Except for the case your blog has a skyrocketing success and advertisers imminently hear about you… But most blogs aren’t like that. And don’t have to. Most blogs “grow” slowly and steadily and many successful ones treat a certain subject, or niche.

So how do they manage to sell some advertising space?

Well, they can resort to AdSense and other third parties, or they can sell their space directly. On the latter I’ve found a great article on SmartBloggerz. I’ll quote some of it:

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