Online Advertising Solutions Ltd.

Captain Ad has different payout currencies for traffic from different countries, currently Euro and US-Dollar. To accelerate the payout calculation, we have modified the handling of currencies beginning November, 1st 2009 and now calculate the payouts in two steps: The first step is to calculate the payouts exclusively in Euro. If a publisher’s account is kept in US-Dollar, the payouts will be converted into US-Dollar in the second step.

Since this is just a technical modification, nothing will change in the publisher’s user interface. If your account is in US-Dollar there might be some slight fluctuations of the CPM since we will convert your daily earnings from Euro into US-Dollar at the end of every day using the latest exchange rate.

If you have been paid in US-Dollar, we will continue to pay you in US-Dollar. If you have been paid in EUR, we will continue to pay you in EUR - this will of course remain unaffected.

Captain Ad on Twitter and Facebook

In case you do have any questions or comments on these changes please feel free to contact us by phone or email. Additionally, you may also follow us on Twitter or Facebook now:

• http://facebook.com/captainad
• http://twitter.com/captainad

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SpotRails announces a partnership with Serranetga. Serranetga will use SpotRails technology to introduce video advertising in Switzerland. The Swiss marketer Serranetga partners with OAS to enable Swiss publishers to market their online video with the international successful SpotRails technology.

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Since today, Captain Ad also supports DivX-Videos, that were embeded like that:

<object type="video/divx" width="780" height="400" codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab" classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616">
	<param value="false" name="autoPlay"/>
	<param value="divx_url" name="src"/>
	<param value="false" name="allowContextMenu"/>
	<embed width="780" height="400" allowcontextmenu="false" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/" autoplay="false" wmode="transparent" type="video/divx" src="divx_url"/>
</object>

An example:

Our user numbers have increased dramatically in the last weeks. That is why the Captain Ad website will be down for maintance on thursday between 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m (CET).  During this time it will not be possible to login or register.

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

We have improved the payout process and made it more predictable for everyone. From now on we have two payout dates per month, the 15th and the 30th/31st. Every payout which is triggered until 12pm of the respective day will be paid out via paypal or bank transfer (if applicable) on the next (business-) day. This process will come into effect immediately and the first payout date will be the 31st of october 2008. We hope this makes everybody happy…

Thanx Nick for the input

Meet us on OMD marketing fair in hall 10, H64. You’re free to just visit us there. For personal appointments please contact Christian Miersch (+49178 35 81 70 1).

If you feel the need for appetizers and/or cocktails, you’re free to join our come-together event on wednesday, 17. Sep 2008 between 17:00-19:30h.

A successfull OMD 2008 for all of you!

The Online Advertising Solutions Ltd. team