New Release Launches
Over the course of the weekend, we launched a new release of the KickApps platform. The best way to experience the updates is to dive right in:
- Create an affiliate account
- Browse a KickApps-powered site like the Arena Football League Fan Zone
or Cleveland’s My43.net.
Release highlights
- Updated profile pages
- The updated member profile pages display more thumbnail images, showcase member comments, and include a richer set of biographical information.
- Personal profile themes
- Allow your members to customize their profile pages’ colors and styles. You can also create and edit Featured Themes to share with your members.
- Configurable advertising, including in-stream ads
- All of your KickApps-powered page experiences offer include a range configurable slots for banner ads, as well as an initial offering for pre- and post-roll videos.
- Improved blogs
- Members can create video, audio, and text blogs from a web cam or by uploading files from their desktop. Blogs now include a full range of media metadata, so users can tag, rate, flag, and add comments. To balance these new features, we’ve updated your media management pages to allow you to review, edit, and approve new blogs.
- Groups
- With new Groups functionality, your members can share media and comments with other like-minded users.
- Site navigation bar
- A new site-wide navigation bar helps users find new and popular media from any page in your community.
- Single sign on
- If you have your own member population, you can now integrate your own systems with the KickApps platform to maintain a single interface for registration, login, and sign out functionality.
- DNS masking
- Preserve your own site URL! Map an unused subdomain to your KickApps-hosted pages for a fully branded user experience.
A Note For Existing KickApps Affiliates
If you’re already powering your online community with the KickApps platform and have customized your pages’ CSS (cascading style sheet) rules, please take a moment to review these notes about the updated page CSS.
What’s Next
We’re not going to slow down just yet: we’re planning new releases every six weeks or so, adding as many big new features as we can comfortably manage.
