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by tajim 4917 days ago
How are the submissions sent. Is it all automated or you send it manually

On the Publisher list page you say:

"We send your notification via online forms, emails, twitter and exclusive partnerships."

This sounds like you are doing it manually.

Good service though :)

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Ah thanks! We should make that clearer.

For each publisher it breaks down to one of these methods:

1) submission via their online form. we do this automatically via POST.

2) if their form has a captcha, we queue it for manual submission by a human being (most don't have a captcha though - it's just the big guys)

3)email. the majority of sites encourage submissions via an email address.

4) twitter - worst case scenario is we tweet their account for you

5) publishing partner. similar to (3) email, except the publisher can set their preferred time to receive.

All of the above except (2) is automated. I'd guesstimate that for about 95% of the publishers we support, the submissions are all handled by the software. We want to build it as scalable as possible.