{"id":19929,"date":"2014-09-03T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=19929"},"modified":"2014-09-05T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:13:20","slug":"sustainable-service-post-share-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/sustainable-service-post-share-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to Shareaholic’s Post-Share Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, with your help, Shareaholic has grown from a nights and weekends project to becoming the preferred acquisition, engagement and measurement platform for more than 340,000 websites (and growing!). Each month, over 400 million people\u00a0use\u00a0Shareaholic to discover and share content across the globe.<\/p>\n

Building a Sustainable Service for You<\/h3>\n

As I’m sure you can imagine, developing and maintaining a free high-quality service is also expensive! Fortunately, developments in traditional and native advertising have paved the way for businesses like ours to generate the revenue we need to support our business while minimizing the impact on you: our customer! While\u00a0brainstorming the “right” ways to incorporate some of these options, we came to an important conclusion: there is no “right” way until we have conducted the proper tests and gotten feedback from you!<\/p>\n

Our First Experiment<\/h3>\n

Starting today, we\u00a0are beginning to test products and features that will\u00a0help support our services and in the future earn revenue for you too (more on this below)! Our first step:\u00a0Incorporating a targeted display ad in the \u201cThank You For Sharing<\/a>\u201d window.<\/p>\n

\"post-share-browser\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Any ads we surface will be high quality, personalized and\u00a0relevant to the reader<\/a>, so you don’t have to worry about compromising your audience’s experience in any way.\u00a0Also, we’ve made it super easy for you to report ads you don’t like and submit feedback: simply\u00a0send us an email!<\/a><\/p>\n

Transparency, Choice & Control<\/strong><\/p>\n

This feature is optional!<\/span><\/i> You can turn off Shareaholic ads<\/b> in less than 15 seconds:<\/p>\n