Earlier today we released some design teaks to the Shots that are rich with text by increasing line spacing and padding in order to improve text readability and legibility.

These changes can be seen on WikiShot, RSS Shot, ProductShot and MovieShot

Enjoy.

Coincidence or are the shots trying to tell us something this week?

The #1 PhotoShot is Steve Balmer NOT using a MacBook Pro, the #2 StockShot is YHOO, and the #3 ProductShot is "Switching to a Mac".

Could this explain why "Seduced by Madness" is the #2 MovieShot and "Profanity in ASL (American Sign Language)" is the #1 WikiShot?

Of course, it's not the least bit AudioShot #1 why RSS Shot #1 is #1 unless it's a way to take the controversy surrounding Billy Ray's teenage daughter and make is SFW.

Check it out here.

At Snap, we often come up with product enhancements, news, contests, promos and updates related to both our company and our product, Snap Shots. We would love you to be part of these announcements, so we offer different ways to keep in touch with us:

• Follow Snap on Twitter
• Join the "Fans of Snap & Snap Shots" Facebook group
• Subscribe to the Snap Blog RSS feed using your favorite RSS reader

Mi experiencia con Snap Shot empezo por casualidad. Cuando empeze hace 8 meses a trabajar en internet, buscaba un navegador mas seguro y personalizable que el IE. Cada uno que haga su eleccion de navegador, pero para mi y muchos millones de personas que usan la red a diario Mozilla Firefox me dio, (y sigue dandome) la mejor opcion. La verdad es que en complementos y plug-in es inmejorable. Por Mozilla conoci a Snapshots y desde entonces me ha ayudado a embellecer mis blogs y websites. Tiene una resolucion impresionante, y un sin fin de utilidades. Desde que lo uso me ha sido posible incorporar imagenes que normalmente no te permite ningun otro plug-in que yo conozca. Trabajo unas 12 horas al dia en la red y sin el no me hubiera sido posible realizar estos trabajos. Snapshots es mucho mas que un plug-in , es un programa que me da de comer sin que tenga que pagar por ello. La creatividad de cada uno es el limite. Doy las gracias a los creadores de Snap Shots por el buen trabajo que realizan y deberian en mi opinion poner a disposicion de los usuarios un tool que nos permita hacer donaciones para que sea posible seguir y mejorar (si es posible) con este gran programa.

En uno de mis blogs hare una comparativa de productos similares, pero ya se quien se llevara la pluma…

Keep up the good work!

Freud72

Summer is in the air at HotShots, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, and at the home office in Pasadena, it's a heatwave. "Frozen Grand Central" is the coldest VideoShot and "Fresh Del Monte Produce" is the hottest StockShot. They're catching some rays at the Googleplex in MapShots and archetypal summer flick "Camp Cucamonga" rises from the dead in MovieShots. Who would have thought there'd be so much global warming in the same week as Earth Day?

A few of us will be at EconSM 2008 - the economics of social media conference, tomorrow Tuesday, April 29.

Snap is proud to sponsor the conference and if you happen to be around, please drop by our booth to say hello, get a demo of Snap Shots and receive some schwags.

Brendon Mulvihill, a member of the Snap BD team, was interviewed during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco by Zedomax about the Snap Shots Gold Publishers Program.

Watch the video to see what Brendon had to say.

A Gold Publisher who uses Snap Shots benefits in a many ways. First, Snap Shots enhances the user experience of the site through contextually relevant, interactive information from the web's best content. Snap Shots also creates more page views per visit, reduce leakage, and last but not least, Snap Shots creates an incremental revenue stream outside of the site's current monetization.

Want to learn more and see if you qualify? Visit the program information page.

We have been running the "Claim your Space" campaign for a few months now, encouraging our publishers to opt-in and setup Snap Shares for their site. Snap Shares is a program where we share part of the advertising impressions that we're placing in Snap Shots with the websites that host them.

So far the program has been a great success. Many of our publishers have selected to market their sites or services using a graphical or a text ad, other have chosen to increase their web site's revenues by uploading ads from popular advertising networks such as Commission Junction, eBay Partner Network or Amazon Associates and the last group have donated the ad inventory to a beloved charity.

The "Claim Your Space" campaign is coming to an end. Starting from tomorrow, you won't see our "Claim Your Space" reminder ads while browsing your own site. To clarify 0 the Snap Shares program is not changing at all. Now it is a great time for new publishers to set it up for the first time, and for existing ones, to refresh the creative. Login to your Snap Shots Account to being.

comScore released their March 2008 numbers for ad networks and for the first time identified a new emerging category: Niche Ad Networks. These ad networks have the ability to reach specific audiences and by that help advertisers become more effective in their marketing spend.

We are extremely happy and proud that the Snap Shots Advertising Network is leading this new category with a reach of 9.9% of U.S. Internet users.

The Snap Shots Advertising Network offers advertisers a unique environment where their marketing messages are displayed in premium placements, next to the best content the web has to offer, and reaching a highly-desirable and fully-engaged audience.

Here's more from the comScore press release:

Niche Ad Networks Emerge for Audience-Specific Targeting

As ad networks have expanded their reach and influence online, a new crop of ad networks has surfaced to serve specific demographic and behavioral target segments through both the traditional ad network model and more innovative ad-targeting mechanisms.  While the overall reach of these niche ad networks is eclipsed by the more generalized ad networks, their ability to precision-target niche audiences helps advertisers reduce wasted ad impressions.

One example of a behaviorally targeted ad network is Snap Shots Network, which delivers ads to users of Snap.com’s Snap Shots. The network reached more than 18 million U.S. Internet users in March…

To learn more about our offering to advertisers, visit the Advertisers page or download our media kit.

A few members of the Snap team will be attending Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco between Wednesday and Friday (April 23-25).

Please stop by our booth #741 and we will tell you about the things that have been keeping us busy lately and give away cool schwag.

Hope to see you there.