We are happy to announce that we are releasing two new tools to make it even easier for you to pick and place Q-Ads ads into your websites and blog posts.

A new version of the Q-Ads tool for Firefox (including 2.0) and Internet Explorer will allow you to insert ads while still using your familiar web-based post editor, but now it can do more—now you can insert YouTube and other video clips too! Just like the award-winning Qumana editor we have integrated an Insert HTML function into the Q-Ads tool that lets you insert videos (and other HTML code) right into your posts. This will let YouTube users put their own videos into their own blogs and publish an advertisement along with the video clip.

Because of the security limitations within many web-based blog editors YouTube insertion may not work for all users. Each blog platform handles this kind of code differently, and so we can't guarantee this function will work for all blog platforms.

Second, we added new ad category and keyword pick lists to the Q-ads tool. We combed through over 10,000 keywords in popular categories like Computers, Real Estate, and Home/Garden to give you 10 top-performing keywords in each category. We will refresh this list periodically to make sure you still have the best keywords available to you at all times. Don't like one of the suggestions? No problem, just choose Custom Keyword and enter your own.

This is also useful for content providers who may want to partner with Qumana to offer these capabilities to their users. We can tailor and mirror categories that are important and relevant to their audiences, so as to provide them with customized advertising inventory that means something to their audiences or users. The content providers can offer their users free easy-to-use content and advertising publishing tools along with the ability to access quality advertising and make money.

Lastly, we are officially releasing a Q-Ads plugin for Microsoft's Live Writer offline blog editor. While we think Qumana is the best editor out there (and if you are looking for a powerful blog editor that has all the functions and more of the Q-Ads tool, Qumana is for you), some of you might like Live Writer. We don't take this personally, so we are giving LW users Q-Ads too! The Q-Ads plugin for Live Writer contains the same ad insert as the Q-Ads tool (with category pick lists and ad
customization) and the easy Insert Video (and other HTML code) functions too!

All of these are available for download now from the Qumana website.