Pune, India – February 25, 2009 – Have you ever been able to create an online ad and promote your company, blog, social networking page, or favorite charitable cause within a social network like Facebook. (!) Zimblee, the world’s first truly custom ad creator tool designed for advertisers, agencies, small business owners, bloggers and social networkers allows you to do just this. Now creating a fully customized banner ad for the internet can be accomplished quickly, efficiently and affordably. To celebrate the launch, (!) Zimblee is holding a contest for the “best” creative with a MacBook Air to be given to the winner. “From selecting a background, to inserting images and text (!) Zimblee automates the entire ad creation process in an easy to use, point and click, drag and drop interface. It’s simply the easiest way to create an online ad,” said Founder and CEO Vishal Sharma. “The ability to launch your ad to the likes of Facebook is a unique social application which produces a whole new dimension to online advertising. The (!) Zimblee application for social networks is a first step towards a new wave in online advertising. The same process can be extended to other publishers who wish to create a complete self serve platform for their advertisers.” “Till now advertising online has been a laborious and cumbersome task for marketers,” said Founder and COO Devaraj Southworth. “Although it is relatively simple to develop a text ad, the same does apply for truly custom display ads; which take weeks to design and cost hundreds of dollars. The technical complexities aside, small business owners and social media partners just don’t know where to begin when it comes to display advertising, let alone how to promote an ad in a social network.” “We are giving these audiences the opportunity to play in the major leagues. However, even these professionals can benefit from using (!) Zimblee, which enables an advertiser to create professional animated ads. When it comes down to it, an advertiser realizes it’s about value for dollars spent.” “In economic times like these it’s even more important for advertisers to track their spending. Although we are in a down economy marketers will continue to put dollars into online because it is a measurable form of media,” added Founders Sharma and Southworth. “In developing (!) Zimblee we set out to create a rich media experience for our users; employing a process that was familiar,” said Anup Badhe, CTO. “Using technologies like Adobe Flex enables us to provide our users an experience, similar to that of creating a PowerPoint slide, but with an end result far superior.” (!) Zimblee is a (!) Yureekah Inc. Company founded by Vishal Sharma and Devaraj Southworth, serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds in media and consulting. (!) Yureekah recently secured a round of angel investment and will be looking to secure its Series A in the coming months. In addition, (!) Zimblee is looking to partner with several major publishers who wish to utilize these services. For more information about (!) Zimblee and its capabilities please visit www.zimblee.com. In other news, sister company (!) Yureekah has moved into Beta. Starting today users will experience increased performance with the release of new features including: improved indexing, faster searches, more data, increased relevancy, less duplicates, ROS categorization to avoid repeated ads, and the ability to search by publisher and size. In the coming months (!) Yureekah also plans to release an API to embed (!) Yureekah into your favorite site. For more information visit www.yureekah.com About (!) Zimblee (!) Zimblee is a web-based self-service ad creator platform; the world’s first truly custom online ad creator tool designed for advertisers, agencies, and small business owners. (!) Zimblee’s intuitive interface, point and click, drag and drop customization tools enable first-time users as well as experienced marketers to create professional, effective and fully customized display ads for the internet efficiently and affordably. Users can upload logos and images of their choice but also have complete access to the (!) Zimblee library. In addition, this patent pending platform allows a user to not only create a display ad, but also promote their company, blog, favorite charitable cause, or personal page within a social network. The ability to launch a (!) Zimblee custom ad to a social network provides the marketer with an new medium for advertising. The (!) Zimblee application for social networks is a first of its kind in online advertising. Privately held, (!) Zimblee is a (!) Yureekah Inc. Company founded by Vishal Sharma and Devaraj Southworth, serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds in media and consulting. For more information visit www.zimblee.com About (!)Yureekah Inc. (!) Yureekah Inc. is a technology company that is developing the next generation of online advertising products. (!) Yureekah Inc.’s mission is to make online media professionals successful by revolutionizing the online advertising process. With multiple patents pending including several for (!) Yureekah the “competitor search engine,” and (!) Zimblee the “custom display ad creator,” (!) Yureekah Inc. will continue to innovate and revolutionize the advertising industry for years to come. Privately held, (!)Yureekah Inc. is a global technology company with offices in Pune, India, and New York. (!)Yureekah Inc. is founded by Vishal Sharma and Devaraj Southworth, serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds in media and consulting. For more information visit www.yureekah.com   read more »