This cycle, we tightened up the new experience and gave users more visibility into and . Let's dig in...

You can now see all your earnings in a nice chart on the homepage of your dashboard

Find the conversation you're looking for quicker.

Not interested in affiliate deals? You can now hide them from view.

Working with a team? See who's on your account and add new members.

The projects we tackle are a direct result of the feedback we receive from our users. Tell us what you'd like to see improve about Swapstack here:

Lots of little improvements this cycle, and one big release: . Let's dig in...

Offer a per-click payout with monthly caps. Invite multiple publishers to participate. Pay only for the clicks they drive during the campaign.

Set up a new campaign on your Campaigns Dashboard, and select "Per-Click" to get started:

Drive clicks, get paid! Once you've been invited to a per-click campaign, you'll see a new option in your sidebar menu.

The old name was cute(ish) but it was confusing and users were ignoring it. So we got un-creative and renamed it something more descriptive.

Advertisers can now share their Affiliate Deal externally. Just click to copy and paste into an email, a twitter, or on your website...

Missed an invitation to connect? Reopen it here:

You can now post a simple, anonymous thumbs-up / thumbs-down review after you've run a deal in a 1:1 Relationship.

Everything campaign-related lived on one cluttered page, before. Now, have three separate views:

The projects we tackle are a direct result of the feedback we receive from our users. Tell us what you'd like to see improve about Swapstack here:

We spent this cycle making key improvements to our Affiliate program, .

If you're new to Plug & Play, it's a a gallery of 60+ pre-approved, pay-per-conversion affiliate deals. Publishers can run deals whenever they need to fill inventory, and Advertisers only pay when ads convert. Win-win.

Advertisers can now see how their Plug & Play deal is performing at a glance.

Advertisers can now create an "Invite Only" deal and control which Publishers can run it.

Publishers can now filter the Plug & Play gallery to find the deals best suited for their needs.

While Advertisers are waiting for their Plug & Pay deal to be approved, they can now queue up a list of Publishers to invite to run it as soon as it's approved and set to "Live."

The projects we tackle are a direct result of the feedback we receive from our users. Tell us what you'd like to see improve about Swapstack here:

Last week we launched a series of improvements to the advertiser experience on Plug & Play (as well as a new subscription for it):

We are now integrated with Impact.com, which means if you, as an advertiser, have you affiliate program setup on that platform, you can easily extend that to Swapstack publishers.

To get started, simply visit the Plug & Play tab and fill out an application

We recently started supplying 1-click creative to publishers on P&P, and brands can now tweak their creative directly from the P&P dashboard.

We now show advertisers their top performing publishers in the performance tab.

This is just a start, and we'll be adding many more metrics and charts to this page.

We're investing a ton of time and effort into making Plug & Play the best affiliate software out there; in line with that, we've implemented a $50/month (or $500/year) subscription for brands to be listed on the Plug & Play gallery.

There are some other minor improvements we added, but these are the highlights! Let us know if you have any feedback!

We've made a series of small but impactful improvements to Plug & Play that should make it much easier to manage as a publisher! All together, Plug & Play now supports rerunning the same deal as often as you'd like! You don't even need to come back to Swapstack and let us know you did so.

Read on for more details!

Ran a deal in July that continued to drive clicks in August? You no longer need to come back to Swapstack and create a new 'deal' - we simply can see that clicks were driven using the trackable link, and we automatically create a new deal placeholder for the new month and will make sure the brands know to report in the new month as well!

You'll see this little flag on the deals when we've created it automatically:

Now you will get the same link each time you run a brand's deal.

Combined with the previous update, this means that after you ran a deal the first time, you don't really ever need to come back to Swapstack. Simply copy and paste the same creative/link you already used, and everything should happen automatically!

We changed the History tab to 'Results', now showing your monthly summaries per deal on payments, conversions, and clicks!

Before today, we could only allow US-based users to access Plug & Play..but no longer! As of today, Plug & Play is now available globally to all users - at least those in the countries that Stripe supports.

To access Plug & Play (assuming you already have a Stripe account):

Plug & Play in general has a fresh coat of paint and some new features!

You'll notice a new layout for the Plug & Play tab live today! Hopefully we've made it a bit easier for you to distinguish between the deals you can run, the deals you are currently running, and your history.

Let us know if you have any feedback on the redesign!

Check out a video from our founder Jake Schonberger for more details on what's new with Plug & Play: https://www.loom.com/share/aeb0933502f94d1d904497e1d04ebe9e

We have just launched a new beta feature that enables brands who are building a Swapstack campaign, to offer publishers a price that they can afford, which may below the listed price of a given ad-unit.

By enabling brands to send offers based on their performance goals, we'll increase the amount of inbound any given publisher may receive. Our goal is to fill up as much inventory for publishers as possible - this is one step in that direction! Note: Negotiations on offers are coming soon.

It's totally up to you! We recommend choosing something fair ($40-80 cost per thousand opens is a range we've seen work well for both publishers and brands) that aligns to your performance goals.

Publishers will have the opportunity to accept or decline your offer. For now, they cannot counter-offer, but we are looking into that option for future campaigns.

Email hello@swapstack.co or chat with us via the chat widget in the Swapstack app.

We shipped a number of significant upgrades to the Publisher experience on Swapstack, mostly related to onboarding and profile data.

We now allow publishers to post their newsletter audience demographics! This has been long requested by users on both sides of the product, and allows advertisers to better understand the fit of a potential newsletter.

You can find/update your newsletter's demographics in the tab in the Swapstack dashboard.

The tab has been entirely upgraded to show a preview of what brands themselves see on their side of the product. Now, as you update and change items, you will see a live view of exactly what brands will see about your newsletter.

We have added a bunch of new features about how Ad Listings work:

This is particularly important for Campaigns, so go in now and make sure your Ad Listings include all of this awesome information!

Finally, we have redesigned how ad listings are created, and added helpful educational content to help you understand what makes a good ad listing, with examples and blog posts.

We're excited to announce that the first, beta version of Campaigns is live!

With campaigns, our goal is to make it 100x easier for advertisers to work with multiple newsletters in parallel. Advertisers build their campaigns, invite newsletters in bulk, and mange the entire process seamlessly.

We manage creative approvals (optionally), reporting, and payments with each of the newsletters.

For now, we require an onboarding call to access campaigns while we work on making it available for self-service. If you'd like to get started with campaigns, schedule a time with us here!

Here's how it works 👇🏼

At this stage, you'll select the newsletters you want to invite and add them to your campaign. Then you'll select the number of units you're interested in buying of each of their buyable products. When you're all set, you'll invite them to apply to your campaign!

At this stage, the newsletters will confirm their pricing and unit availability, and you will have the opportunity to approve or reject anyone based on their applications.

Once the approvals are in, we'll send you an I/O and an invoice to lock everything in. Then the newsletters will start populating the dates they plan to run your ad (within the start/end date parameters of the campaign)!

Once the campaign starts, you will see live updates to the reported metrics (self-reported by newsletters for now), as well as links to see the ads in the wild!

Have been adding some nice quality of life items recently:

Now in the gallery you will see cute little hearts allowing you to save newsletters/brands to a list of 'saved', which you can toggle to see at the top of the gallery.

This one goes out to all my brands! In the invoices tab, you can now download all to CSV using the nice, big 'Download CSV' button in the top right!

#Brand Gallery Responsiveness

Thanks to our new team member and rockstar Kelly Claus, the brand gallery is now on par with the newsletter gallery in how it looks at difference screen sizes. Thanks Kelly!!

That's it for now - more to come soon!