Winners for Marie Digby Contest on Advertlets.com Announced!

Just two more days to the Marie Digby showcase in 1 Utama! Thanks to all who took part in the contest. Congratulations, you’ve all won GAP vouchers and CDs - and the lucky winner also gets meet and greet passes, as well as an autographed CD! Here are the winners…

Grand Prize Winner :
Name : San Kwang Min
IC: ******-**-5113

Consolation Prize Winners :
Name : Fiona Lim Su Ean
IC : ******-**-6278

Name: Loh Yen Ching
IC: ******-**-5235

Name : Fazrashad Abdul Aziz
IC : ******-**-5863

Name: Lim Deyao
IC:******-**-6267

Name: Tan Siow Yen
IC: ******-**-5426

Name : Melissa Tan Jin Peng
IC: ******-**-5296

Name: Desmond Varo
IC Number: ******-**-5327

Name : Lee Choong Nam
IC : ****6138

Name: Wong Mae Sau
IC: ******-**-5620

Winners, please make sure you’re there on the day to collect your prizes. EMI will contact you shortly with the details.

Scheduled Maintenance This Sunday & Pending Cashouts

We will be performing scheduled maintenance and backups tomorrow (this Sunday, 11th May 2008. at 10PM-11:30PM). During this time, you may not be able to log into Advertlets.com and ads may not be displayed all the time throughout this period. After that time period, normal service should resume, and it might even be slightly faster too

We note that also, some of you may not have received your cheques yet, please read more if you have a pending cashout that has not reached you yet. Thanks.

When can I expect to receive my payment?

Why have I not received my payment?
If you have not received your payment, it can be due to either one of the following factors:

1. The payment was sent, however, was not delivered successfully to your address. Please let us know if your payment was scheduled to be arrived (according to the table above) but has not arrived.

2. Your payment has been processed & sent, and has yet to arrive. Please be patient, and consult the schedule above to gauge when your payment should arrive. If it is delayed (and beyond what is stated on the schedule), please contact us.

3. Your name & address details were incomplete/erroneous, and the cheque was not delivered successfully, and was returned to Advertlets. Or, the cheque has yet to be sent due to your full name not being filled in. Please make sure to whitelist the e-mail address “info@advertlets.com” in your e-mail application to make sure that the support team will be able to contact you regarding these matters.

4. Your payment has not been processed yet due to click fraud. If your cashout is marked “Unpaid/DENIED”, please cooperate with the Advertlets Support team to determine the legitimacy of your earnings, and whether an audit or ban is forthcoming. If you believe there may be sabotage, please provide details.

5. Your payment is not due to be processed yet. Our usual payment terms are 30-45 days from the end of the month which you cashed out.

What could be the reason for the delay?

Several factors that contributed to the regrettable delay were:

- An upgrade in the integration of our cheque processing system to our publisher database. This was a necessary upgrade due to an increase in the amount of people cashing out faster each month due to the lauch of the Advertlets Titan program that offers higher payout rates. Hence, this upgrade will enable more cheques to be processed simultaneously in future.

- An upgrade to our click quality auditing mechanisms. The new system is more accurate in auditing click quality, however, in its earlier stages, its processing efficiency was lower, hence the delay in verifying earnings. We have now rolled out a faster build, and you should not face such delays in future for all legitimate cashouts. However, those that engage in fraudulent activity are now even more likely to have their earnings invalidated.

What is not allowed? What is fradudulent activity?
The following can be determined as part of click/impression fraud, which is attempting and will invalidate your Advertlets account & earnings. This applies to all our ad formats.

- Auto refreshing your page excessively to generate more impressions
- Clicking on your own Advertlets Ad Units
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- Exhorting your site visitors to click on your own ads, through the use of pleading/misleading/manipulative text/images, whether on the blog itself or other mediums

Generally, if you’re concerned about what is prohibited, the general rule of thumb is just think about it this way: If you were an advertiser on Advertlets, would you be pleased if someone did that?

If you require further details/clarification on what defines fraudulent activity or regarding the status of your cashout, do contact Advertlets Support at info@advertlets.com or lodge a ticket at http://www.advertlets.com/support

Advertlets Announces, Gap Presents: Marie Digby Live in KL!

Advertlets is proud to the official blog advertising sponsor for Marie Digby Live in Kuala Lumpur!. If you haven’t heard by now, Marié is one of the most beautiful acoustic sensation born from Youtube!.

You most likely have already heard her cover of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”, and her other videos that have gotten millions of views - now, you get to see her perform your favourite covers and original material live in Kuala Lumpur! And, Advertlets bloggers also stand the chance to win an autographed CD from Marie Digby, just check out the contest site here!

Event Details
Marié Digby, live in Kuala Lumpur
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 8pm
Venue: Ground Floor, Highstreet, 1 Utama New Wing.

This event is brought to you by Gap. As it’s a free event! Bring everyone along, we’ll see you there!

About Marié Digby
Marié Digby is one impatient girl. Twenty minutes after first learning Rihanna’s hit single, “Umbrella,” last May, she propped her MacBook in her living room, filmed herself performing the song and put it on the Web. As fast as you can say “viral video,” Marié’s performance racked up more than 500,000 views on YouTube.

Blessed with beauty, poise and extravagant talent, Marié Digby might remind some old timers of Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro and similarly insightful artists. But she shrugs off any comparisons, intending to navigate her own unique artistic course. “I don’t want to sound like I‘m saving the world,” she says with a smile, “but everyone on earth is given a gift. Music is mine. I hope someday I’m successful enough to use it as a way to help other people.”

Lastly…
PS: Over 797 people have RSVP’ed for the event on the Facebook Event Page for Marie Digby Live in Kuala Lumpur. Its going to be big! See you there!

ENDED: Football Season is Coming! AscotSports Campaign for Malaysia, Singapore & China!

Please take note: This sponsored post opportunity has come to an end. Thank you for your participation!

As even the non-football fans would know by now, the UEFA Champions league is coming to a close soon. Its been an exciting season, and for the first time in many years, we have an all English final in the UEFA Champions League. The final match will be held in Moscow with Manchester United vs Chelsea, and is definitely a must watch match, with very evenly matched odds - sure to be a tough fight! And very soon, football fever will escalate again, in just slightly over a month as the highly anticipated Euro 2008 Austria-Switzerland will begin!

For those of you who like to add more excitement to watching the game and take part in football betting, we’ve something interesting for you…our new client, Ascot Sports is a truly unique and dynamic sports and gaming bookmaker with strong underlying commitment to offer the best value and exciting betting opportunities. They offer competitive Asian Handicap live betting, on all major leagues, including the English Premier League, Spanish Primera Liga, German Bundesliga and the UEFA Cup. They offer a safe, legal & fun way for you to place your bets, whether you are from Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, UK, China, or virtually any country!

AscotSports would like to let you in on the action, and are offering a sponsored posting opportunity for Advertlets bloggers to help get the word out about their service. Read more below for details! Also of note: We are also running banner campaigns across the entire Malaysia, Singapore & China network for this, but it is opt in only, only bloggers that are keen on this genre of ads will be included. For those keen to opt in for gambling/betting/sportsbook based ads, please make sure to update your ad genre preferences in your Advertlets account. You’ll see it on the landing page of your account.

Sponsored Post Opportunity

1. This campaign is open to Malaysian, Singaporean & China Advertlets bloggers only with significant traffic from their respective regions. Please seek approval before posting by dropping an e-mail to posts@advertlets.com if your blog is suitable for this campaign. We are looking for sports, gaming and football themed blogs mostly, but blogs appealing to a large relevant audience can also be considered.

2. Posting Opportunity 1: The sponsored reviews are budgeted at RM 48 each for 20 Advertlets bloggers who have traffic that is >50 unique readers per day. The opportunity closes as soon as the 20 blogger quota as reached.

3. Posting Opportunity 2: The sponsored reviews are also budgeted at RM 88 each for 10 Advertlets bloggers who have traffic that is >1,000 unique readers per day. This opportunity closes as soon as the 10 blogger quota as reached.

4. The sponsored post offer is limited to 1 blog post per blogger.

5. This opportunity ends 31st May 2008. No submissions will be accepted after that date.

6. The blogger has to visit http://ascotsports.com and provide a review of Ascot Sports’ markets, deposit bonuses and other interesting selling features. Ideally, the blogger may even sign up to take advantage of the cash deposit promotion and make a bet with us.

7. The blogger’s review should be at least 150 words long (regardless of Post Opportunity 1 or 2)

8. The blogger must include at least 1 hyperlink to http://ascotsports.com and attach at least 2 screenshots from the Ascot Sports site.

9. Send the review to posts@advertlets.com for approval.

Not sure how to start? Here’s an idea of what you can try for (please don’t copy - this is just to give you an idea)

“With the English Premier League reaching an exciting climax and the Euro2008 football tournament commencing in June, I decided to join an online sports book. It’s much easier to bet online where you can type in you bets and view all the odds live rather than calling up some guy to get updated on prices.

I joined Ascot Sports after being recommended to them by a friend who places bets on their Asian Handicap markets. They are licensed in the Isle of Man in the UK and offer much better odds than some of the dodgier local bookmakers. You can bet on a variety of sports and there are many ways to deposit your money. It was so quick and easy to register and get my account funded. I just filled out a form online and transferred money from my bank account.

Ascot Sports actually deposited a £30/RM190/SGD90/RMB430 First Bet Bonus into my account for being a new customer. Woot! I placed it on Liverpool to win 3-0 tonight so if that comes in, the drinks will be on me. LOL!”

All you need is an internet connection in order to play online. My brother wanted to use my account to place a bet the other day because the cheapskate was low on credit on his phone. I got him to sign up to Ascot Sports via their affiliate program. Therefore by referring him to Ascot Sports I got paid a commission! Online betting is definitely the way to go these days and less risky than doing credit betting with underground bookies.”

Good luck!

Advertlets Announcing DTD Music Fest, 3rd May 2008!

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Hi bloggers, music lovers, art lovers and who ever you are reading this,beginning its very first installment in 3/5/2008, DONG TAI DU / DTD (Translation: “Move Attitude”, “Forward Thinking” or “Action”) is set to be a bi-monthly independent music event, created to celebrate Malaysia’s very own homegrown music and creative arts. And, there are quite a few Advertlets bloggers involved, even some playing in the featured bands, including myself!

The event includes a powerhouse showcase of 12 local indie bands and 8 local electronica acts, a flea market of 20 stalls with creative, DIY design items for sale and a display of local indie design artworks.On par with the current trend where local independent musicians and creative arts had seen much public and media attention, this event aims to become the cornerstone
representative for the local Chinese independent musician/designer/artist community.

I’m glad that my band Dian Bang is one of the performing bands in electronica acts. Since the ‘new’ song ‘Andy Warhol’ we had lunch end of last year the response was adorable (featured in
Dec.07 issue of Junk’s compilation CD), we came up a few new songs again and will be performing on DTD music fest. you guys can check one of our new songs on our myspace, so come update with us!!

Another thing, to our chinese bloggers i’m sure you might know who is snowXwhite, she’s one of our famous blogger and Advertlets member, a sweet charming snowXwhite is planning lunch her own book soon and yet had just get herself involve to a local indle band
Kokkamango as one of the vocals. Will be performing as well for the very first time at the DTD music fest.

Since we lost the supportive from chinese media, and behalf of Advertlets as one of the online media sponsor, really hoping to see our members to be there and give us both a warm greetings and support and come over and have fun with us~!!

It’s time for the young local creative community to shine, and DONG TAI DU /DTD is all set to lead the charge. DTD Fest happens on 3rd of May, Saturday,at The Disco, Annexe, Central Market KL. Pre-sale tickets at RM 25 each,
Door-sale at RM 30 each. Each entry comes with a free goodie bag. Check out DTD Music Fest in english.

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Article announcement from Junkonline:
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*To get tickets:*
ÖÒÃñ Zhong Min (Kepong) : 016-658 8601
Phang (Kelana Jaya) : 012-588 2865
Tat (Puchong IOI Mall) : 017-633 9660
Shane (Puchong/Tan Yew Lai) : 012-377 8558
Á¬³Ï Lian Seng (Genting Kelang) : 012-258 9317
Soon (Wangsa Maju/MIA art College) : 012-320 3243
Jimmy Chong (Jln Ipoh/ICOM) : 016-658 5609
William Chong (Bukit Bintang) : 016-339 7444