Mouse over events and click testing

Hello!

Some major updates this time.

As you know we run all creatives in an environment similar to that of your users and monitor stuff like CPU usage and HTTP connections.

With this update we also perform a mouse over event on the creative. This allows us to tell you about anything that happens when a user moves her mouse over an ad (playing sounds, loading files and who knows what).

We also perform a click on the creative. While detecting clicktags through code analysis is good actually clicking the creative is better. By doing this we can verify that the clicktag actually works and make sure that the click is not blocked by a pop-up blocker.

Support for Action Script 3

There is now support for decompiling Action Script 3 in Advalidation. Pretty sweet!

Remove the clutter

We've added a setting under general settings that allow you to automatically delete old validation jobs. Select between 30, 60 or 90 days.

Support for images and other updates

Advalidation now supports jpeg, gif and png images so no matter what type of creative you throw at us you will know if it matches your specs or not.

We also removed validation of clicktag's for third-party tags since you use click macros rather than clicktags to count clicks on third-party tags.

More updates

We just released a new version of Advalidation.

• Time zones (sorry about not having that earlier)
• A progress bar showing the progress of the validation of each creative
  
• A bug when submitting small creatives
  
• Added several third-party tag vendors (Adcentric, Bluestreak, Eyeturn, Eyewonder)

We also made a short video showing how you can use the email functionality we released a couple of weeks ago.  Check it out here.

Some minor updates today

Today we updated the validator to be more robust. Creatives that causes IE to display the "A script is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly" dialog will be marked as corrupt.

We also added support for Atlas third-party tags.

Better third-party tag support

We have made some improvements to the way we handle third-party tags.

The new feature is called automatic third-party tag detection. What it does is that it allows you to post multiple tags in a text area and we will automatically find each individual tag and create a separate creative for it.

This is a time saver if you get huge text documents with multiple tags for multiple dimensions and placements. With this new feature you simply copy the content of the document, paste it in to a text area and click submit.

Pretty neat.