Mediarails Product Release Highlights

2021 Mediarails Product Release Notes

Aug 2nd Release

Product Updates 

• New Impact Marketplace Verified Badge and Filter
  • Users will now be able to see whether a Mediarails Discover prospect is verified by Impact's Partnership Cloud
  • Users will be able to filter by "Marketplace Verified" to identify Impact verified partners
    
    
    
    
    
• Social Audience data can now be manually refreshed as needed
  • This update gives users the ability to manually refresh Social Audience data using the Actions menu on any Partner or Prospect list view.
    
    
    
• New Account Settings 
  • New account settings have been added to the Settings page
  • Ability to set a desired CSV delimiter
  • Ability to set a date format for any dates that appear in the UI
  • Ability to set a date/time format for anywhere that a date and time appear together in the UI
    

 

June 24th Release

Product Updates

• New contact image upload ability on new and edit contact forms
  • Users will now be able to upload images for each contact using the New Contact or Edit Contact forms
    
• Email Workflow report data refresh
  • Email Workflow metrics will now refresh every hour

 

May 21st Release

Product Updates

• New Account Settings menu on the Settings page

  • This allows users to disable all email workflows, disable the Master sync that continually runs to update records with data such as monthly visitors and new contacts, or enable the automatic creation of prospect brands each time a new prospect is added. 
    
    
    
    

• Tag terminology updated to "Prospect Tag(s)" in the Prospects section
  • Columns and filters in the Prospects section will now have the wording of "Prospect Tag(s)" to ease the confusion of Prospect vs Prospect Brand tags.
    
    
• CSV export for Newsletter and Email Workflow metrics
  • Users will now be able to export Newsletter and Email Workflow reporting data to CSV using the Tools dropdown on the respective reporting page
     
  • Data points include Record Id, Name, Email, Last Contacted date and time, Last Opened date and time, Last Clicked date and time, Error reason (if applicable), "Created At" date, and "Updated At" date
    
    

 

April 8th Release

Product Updates

• CSV export for Newsletter history
  • Added ability to export a CSV file of historic Newsletter performance data
    
    
• Edit columns in Newsletters and Email workflow reporting pages
  • Ability to edit the columns shown on Newsletter and Email Workflow reporting pages
    

March 3rd Release

Product Updates

• Ability to upload images in all emails
  • Images can now be uploaded directly to emails from a user's local computer
  • This makes adding hosted images an option, but no longer a requirement
    
• Ability to BCC/CC in Email Workflows
  • Previously this option was only available in one-off messages
    
    
    
    
• Custom fields are now accessible in Prospect Review Mode
  • Users can now add Custom Fields to Prospect records easily and quickly in Review Mode
    

 

Jan. 24th Release

Product Updates

• Newsletter feature launches in beta
  • Can be located in the left sidebar under Automate > Newsletters
  • Enables users to send scheduled one-time emails to groups of prospects or partners
  • Users can preview messages or send test emails
    
    
    
• New streamlined text editor for emails and comments
  
• Alexa and Moz enhancements improved to reduce speed of data population on new records
• The size of the description for Tasks has been increased to 16 megabytes

 

2020 Mediarails Product Release Notes

Oct. 13th Release

Product Updates

• Emojis are now supported in emails and subject lines  🎉 🙌
  
  
  
• The Taxonomy page in Settings has been renamed to Tag Library

Sept. 31st Release

• New dashboard pages are launched!
  • General, Partner and Prospects dashboards added to Dashboard tab
    

 

Aug. 24th Release

New Feature

• YouTube Prospecting Integration is live!
  • Users are now able to search YouTube for vloggers and influencers using keywords and influencer/audience demographics
    
    

July 29th Release

Product Updates

• BETA testing: Opportunities tab added to the Partners workspace detail pages
  • This allows users with multiple brands in the system to create Prospects from their current Partners for use in cross-brand recruiting
    
    

July 14th Release

Product Updates

• Soft remove option added for workflow recipients in all Prospects and Partners workspaces
  • This allows users to decide from Hard and Soft remove options, called "Remove Only" or "Remove and Block" so they can remove specific recipients from a workflow and decide whether the recipients can enter the same workflow again in the future, or will be blocked from entering that workflow again.
    
    
    
    

June 10th Release

Product Updates

• Star ratings are back in Review Mode!
  
  
  
• First and last names are no longer required for creating a new contact record

 

May 28th Release

Product Updates

• Scheduling now available for Email Workflow start date & time
  
  
  
• Load-time speed improvement (10x improvement!)
  • Review Mode, List View, and Detail page loading times have been significantly sped up and improved

 

April 27th Release

Product Updates

• Click tracking added for outgoing emails
  • Total link clicks will be tracked for one-offs and email workflows
  • Additional columns/filters added to Prospects and Partners List Views regarding click tracking
    
• Search function added to Taxonomy page
  
  
  
• Admitad Network Integration added
  • Support users who work with the Admitad Network
    

 

April 8th Release

Product Updates

• Email Re-sync added to user profile page
  • Re-sync will enable users to re-sync their email addresses to the Mediarails system in order to troubleshoot email connection errors.
    
• Email workflow limit has been increased to 20,000 records at a time
  • Users can now add up to 20k records at the same time using saved views. For saved views that are larger than 20k records, all records will still be added as the workflow progresses. 
• File attachments on Prospects and Partner details pages have been increased to accept and store files up to 50mb in size
• New custom field type called "Big Text" allows 65 thousand characters to be added to a custom field in Prospects, Partners and Partners by Brand workspaces
  
  
  
• Currency field added to network integration settings
  • Please note that this field does not calculate currency conversions. It is intended to show users which network is reporting in which currency for reference
    
    
    
    

March 11th Release

Product Updates

• Clone workflow button is now available!
  • Users are now able to clone an entire workflow by clicking the clone button on the right side of the workflow list. The newly cloned workflow shows as "(clone)" in the list like shown below.
    
    
    

Bug Fixes

• Mediarails Chrome Extension loading issue upon login has been fixed and is functioning as expected
  
  

Feb 20th Release

Product Updates

Discover Tools

• Users now have the ability to add an Influencer to the Prospects section directly from the Influencer Lookup using the new Create Prospect button
  • Users will be able to add Tags, Brands and more to the new Prospect record using the form that pops up after clicking the Create Prospect button
    
    
    
• Users now have the ability to add an Influencer to the Prospects section directly from the Influencer Lookup using the new Create Prospect button
  
  • Users will be able to add Tags and Brands to the new Prospect record during the process
    

General Updates

• Tags now have a running count in the Taxonomy section of Prospects or Partners who have those tags applied
  

 

Jan 27th Release

Product Updates

• New UI becomes default interface!
  
  
• Bulk Reset feature is added to Actions on Prospect and Partner list views
  • This allows users to reset certain fields in bulk such as Source or Conversion date (the fields available for bulk resetting vary by workspace)
    

Jan 20th Release

Product Updates

• Campaigns Revamped
  
  
  • Partner Compensation field is added to mark whether the partner received a payment for the placement or free product
    
  • Details page is added to campaign setup which allows users to:
    
    • Designate post types (Video, Article, Image)
    • Enter number of placements
    • Set approval type (Needs Approval, No Approval Necessary) 
    • Add approval date
  • Creative Assets added to Goals tracking page

General Product Updates

• Popup added to Email Workflow setup to remind Users to check with their email provider before sending mass quantities of emails
• Users can now delete individual emails from the Prospect/Partner Detail page
  

 

2019 Mediarails Product Release Notes

Dec 11th Release

Security Updates

• Passwords must be at least 14 characters
• Active sessions now expire after 2 hours
  
  

Nov 25th Release 

Product Updates

• Instagram Discovery Prospecting Integration is added!
  • Users can now search for Instagram Influencers with advanced demographic filters for both Influencers and Audiences
    
• YoY, YTD, MoM metrics can now be added in the Partners workspace for Network Actions, Revenue, and Clicks
  
  • If users do not have data that goes back far enough, these metrics will not provide data
    
• Search in Settings - Users can now search for keywords in Settings pages including Tags (Taxonomy), Users, and Tasks
  
  
• Ability to edit and add Network Start Date and Network in Partner Brand edit pages

Bug Fixes

• Social Media toggles in the Bing integration now show changes in the UI when edited
  
  

Nov 16th Release

Product Updates

• Publishers workspace becomes Partners (platform terminology update - see image below)
  • Publishers becomes Partner Brands
  • Publisher Groups becomes Partners
    
    
    
• New UI preview is available

Nov 6th Release

Product Updates

• Pagination is added to the Settings pages to make finding tags and brands simpler
• Users can now add Placements directly from Campaigns 
  This saves time when adding placements while on the Campaigns page. It is no longer necessary to add placements only to the activity page. Using a dropdown users can select an existing or new activity to assign the placement to.
• Do not call becomes Do not Contact (platform terminology change)
• Improved tag porting when using Add to Prospects from Publisher Groups

Oct 16th Release

Product Updates

• New and Improved Profile Page with Connect Email button
  
  
  

Oct 2nd Release

Product Updates

• New notification:  when a user attempts to connect an email and if it fails, the user will receive an email stating the email failed to connect.
• Compliance tab has been added to Settings with option to delete all email data in the system and instructions on deleting entire account.