Product Blog

March 1st, 2010

Bounces and Unsubscribing

  • Email bounces from broadcasted emails have been improved to more accurately detect bounces and automatically move email addresses to the bounces list.
  • Your subscribers can now permanently unsubscribe, eliminating the risk of accidentally adding or importing an email address that had previously chosen to unsubscribe.


January 14th, 2010

Subscriber Lists and Statistics

  • Subscribers can now be quickly sorted by the lists they're subscribed to.
  • A statistical breakdown graph has been added that shows the number of new subscribers per month and day.


November 15th, 2009

Email Editor Supports Templates and Media

  • Email editing is now a breeze with an updated editor.
  • Templates are easier manage with a built in template editor and better integration with your email.
  • Images and graphics can be easily uploaded and added to your emails.


September 20th, 2009

City by City Launched!

  • City based smart lists can now be created allowing you to target your email broadcasts to subscribers in specific cities.
  • New subscribers will automatically be added to the correct city smart list when they sign up.
  • This feature will be great for musicians touring across the country and businesses with region specific messages.


April 11th, 2009

Feature Improvements

  • The email testing process has been refined to more closely match the emails sent to subscribers.
  • Some bugs affecting email templates and website links have been patched.
  • A bug was fixed that generated errors when trying to send to improperly formatted email addresses.
  • Any questions or other requests please contact support@mediaglide.com.


March 14th, 2009

Improved Email Engine

  • The speed at which emails are delivered to large subscriber lists has been greatly improved.


March 1st, 2009

Improved Bounce Detection

  • Email delivery statistics are more accurately calculated taking into account hundreds of different types of email bounces.
  • Email addresses that repeatedly bounce can be edited or deleted.


February 24th, 2009

New Subscriber Forms with City Detection

Lists can be added and removed easily in your website's settings.
Choose from several types of subscriber attributes including the new city type.
Your embeddable widget can be copied and pasted into your website!


January 28th, 2009

Dashboard and Subscriber Search

  • The website list in the dashboard has been widened to support longer website names.
  • The search function and pagination has been updated and added back to the subscriber list.


January 25th, 2009

New Platform Completed

  • For those of you using the mailing list system over the last few months you've probably noticed components getting moved into a new interface. With today's update we've moved the last remaining components over and are excited about what this means for adding new features going forward.
  • The new dashboard lists all the websites in your account and broadcasting new emails or editing website settings can be done with fewer clicks. Broadcasting emails is now broken into an intuitive three step process, and all of a website's settings can be edited in a single screen.
  • If you're experiencing any problems with the new interface or have any questions in general, please email support@mediaglide.com and we'll be happy to help.


January 11th, 2009

New Features Underway

  • There hasn't been an update in a while but there are a number of features in development and major upgrade to the system in general. These updates should be rolling out in the next few weeks!


November 17th, 2008

Incomplete Newsletter Bug

  • A bug had been identified that led to some subscribers receiving incomplete newsletters. This bug has been fixed, thanks for your patience.


October 6th, 2008

Websites

  • The website account information can be quickly edited under the "Websites" tab. This includes the email settings used for each newsletter.


October 2nd, 2008

Dashboard

  • A dashboard has been added to offer a quick summary of services available.


August 28th, 2008

Send to Friend

  • "Send to Friend" functionality has been added to the newsletters. Add [link_send_to_friend] to your newsletter content or template to generate the link in your newsletter.

Bounce Detection

  • Newsletter bounce detection has been improved to more accurately detect hard bounces (like invalid addresses) and let you review soft bounces (like auto responders).


July 31st, 2008

Customized URLs

  • Products can be accessed through customized URLs such as yourcompanytag.mediaglide.com.
  • Your company's URL can be updated here: Edit Company Info


July 18th, 2008

Updates

  • Template tags have been added under the template component's information tab. These tags can be used to customize newsletters for subscribers such as adding unsubscribe links.
  • Bug fixes have been addressed including improved account security and newsletters getting cut short by certain email programs.


July 3rd, 2008

Updates

  • A new subscriber's auto-generated password is now sent along with their confirmation email.
  • The process for a subscriber to unsubscribe from a mailing list has been simplified to a single click from the footer of a newsletter.


June 26th, 2008

Subscriber Forms

  • Subscriber self-management forms can now be customized in the administration area.
  • Existing forms embedded in websites like MySpace will update automatically.
  • Some of the customizable options include the title message and background and link colors.
  • Subscribers will be automatically added to the default mailing list.

Credits

  • The credit system has been launched allowing customers to purchase credits that can be put towards sending newsletters.
  • You can still set up an account and start letting people sign up for free!