Blog: New Features & Updates

You guys have been after this one for a while. Today, we're wrapped to announce the ability to keep track of your subscriber growth by RSS.

To subscribe to any of your lists, head in to Manage Subscribers, select the list you want to keep track of and then copy and paste the feed URL provided at the bottom of the page into your favourite reader.

Each subscriber list you create has it's very own feed. To make sure you're seeing the latest, we update your stats in real-time whenever you hit refresh in your RSS reader (as long as your reader or aggregator supports this).

Now you can stay on top of your list growth without ever needing to open Campaign Monitor. Of course, you could always use our API to get these stats, or even import your latest subscribers into your own software.

Enjoy - and please let us know if you think anything could be improved.

We've just added our first sample application showing you how to take advantage of the recently launched API. This Windows application, kindly developed by Jason Hickey, is a good example of how you can use the API to easily add subscribers from your own app. He's even added a cool feature that allows you to synch your subscriber list with a local Access database.

So what are you still reading for? Head over to the API Documentation and check it out.

And if .Net isn't your cup of tea, why not send us a sample application in your language of choice. We know there are a few people out there integrating the API with flash and Ruby on Rails, and I'd personally be pretty keen to see a Dashboard widget in action.

To ensure all your campaigns are CAN-SPAM compliant and follow best practice, a single-click unsubscribe link is now required for any emails sent with Campaign Monitor.

Luckily for you, this doesn't mean any extra work if you've been a naughty designer and haven't been using them. As of today, we automatically insert an unsubscribe link at the bottom of all HTML and text emails automatically.

Don't worry, you still have complete design control over the format of your unsubscribe link if you so desire. As always just use the usual unsubscribe tags ([unsubscribe] or <unsubscribe>your text here</unsubscribe>) and we'll convert them into personalized unsubscribe links for all recipients.

Today, after loads of testing and feedback from some dedicated early adopters, we're excited to announce the release of the Campaign Monitor API.

It's now all too easy to integrate your Campaign Monitor account into another application. You might want to:

• Integrate Campaign Monitor with your favourite CRM software, automating the process of adding new customers to your subscriber lists.
• Drop an opt-in checkbox for any of your lists into an existing form on any web site.
• Put together a dashboard widget to get real-time updates on how many people have subscribed to your list today.

We've put together plenty of documentation on each method as well as a quick overview on getting the required details from your own account. We'll be launching a few more methods real soon, plus a few sample wrappers for different languages.

What are you waiting for? Dig in and get your hands dirty, then tell us all about it!

Just a quick note to let you know that we have now fixed the strange character problem in Hotmail. It seems Hotmail is having problems displaying campaigns set in UTF-8, so we are dynamically changing the encoding for all of your Hotmail recipients to ensure the campaign displays as intended. Hopefully Hotmail will fix this bug soon, but in the mean time we've got you covered.