January is a month of pulling themselves together after the long-lasting holiday season. Along with some familiar faces doing it, we are also bringing Sergey and Artur onto the product team. Doubling down on whatever needs to be doubled down.

Here is a list of recent changes since the start of the new year:

• The order changes:

  • You can now use Markdown in chat messages. Also, standard links are not recognized as clickable links in the chat.

• The client dashboard has been updated with the next things:

  • Added SSO to connect our feedback portal, so there is no longer a need to log in separately to provide feedback or vote on our roadmap

  • Links to placements if available already are now directly accessible from the campaign board. Simply hover over an order to check

  • After creating a new campaign or a project, we redirect straight into it so work can begin immediately.

• The fixes to the marketplace:

  • Some gaps between elements in the filters menu were inconsistent, but they have now been corrected

  • The ranges for some SEO metrics were reviewed on the format page and corrected when their health was shown wrongly

  • Traffic breakdown now has a proper empty state when data is not available, preventing confusion about whether it is a bug.

• The authorization flow updates:

  • Due to recent updates, the location selection on the onboarding questionnaire was not displayed. This issue has been fixed.

  • When Medialister was closed for a while, using a link to a specific order or a bookmarks folder would redirect to the dashboard instead of the intended link. This issue has now been fixed, and it works as expected.

We are also going to great lengths to finally open the media manager dashboard to the public in the next month. Publishers, stay tuned!

Inside Medialister

Here is a flow. A first one released a bunch of fixes. A second one made it possible to filter by more criteria. The third one pushed a few interface updates. Meanwhile, the marketers do their best to sell it. A product manager aligns everyone around market, client, and other product-related specifics. Month by month, it becomes more of a habit. In about a year, it starts to become the status quo.

In January, we decided to restart our collaboration with internal hackathons, bringing everyone into one room to work together. The first shot was an experiment for us. We wondered what would happen if a client wanted to view a placement with their content before making a booking. It turns out we can make it live using a browser extension. As a more practical use case, we also demonstrate the extension's ability to secure a placement on a particular website using Medialister. Although we are not yet ready to provide it publicly, you can get an impression from our landing page.