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Submission deadline and production timeline

All creative (banners, jump pages, email responses, splash pages, and instructions) must be submitted in its final form to your sales representative or daniel@avantgo.com by at least one full week prior to the day your ad is scheduled to start running.

  • In the SUBJECT of your email, include the name of the advertiser (i.e., Dell, Motorola, Mercedes-Benz, etc.) and the date for when the campaign is intended to start. Also, note if the campaign is a "splash" or "jump" or both. For example, a campaign for Mercedes featuring a splash component, and a banners/jump component, that is promoting the new CLK and is intended to go live on September 1 would have a subject line similar to this: SUBJECT: Creative for Mercedes CLK Splash/Jump -- 090103.
  • It's generally a good idea to wait until you have all the complete elements (text, graphics, banners, etc.) before sending the creative off to AvantGo. If possible, combine all elements into one .zip file and send as an attachment to your email.

Note: Submission deadlines for a complete set of creative are: Tuesdays at 4PM Pacific Time, and Thursdays at 4PM Pacific Time.

  • Late submissions are subject to delay in publication.
  • A "complete set of creative" also includes not only creative, but also: all instructions and, if your campaign includes an auto-responder email, the "from name," reply-to address," and "subject" for the email.
  • If this is your first campaign with us, we will need an administrative contact's email address where we can send login details before we can proceed.
  • By 3 business days prior to the date of desired publication, we will send you (or provide a link for download) an emulator, a program that runs on Windows-based PCs that lets you see how your ad will look on a color PalmOS device. You may also receive copies of the auto-responder email(s) at this time.
  • After we have made the emulator available, we need to hear back from you with final sign-off by 12AM Pacific, the night before your ad is scheduled to run.
  • Between when we make the emulator available and when you give us final sign-off, if there are minor corrections that need to be made, we will do our best to implement them and create a new preview within one business day of the request without affecting the scheduled publication of the ad. However...


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