There's a new sponsored community, morefun_xbox360, and the main LJ site itself (http://www.livejournal.com) has a green XBox skin instead of the regular blue LJ banner for logged out and unpaid users.

ETA: This is apparently a US only campaign!

Late ETA: Here's a shot of it.

Partner communities went live some time this month: india_writing (which was a sponsored community at first) and the newborn bollywoodclub. They have a special icon, which will look familiar to you if you were there during the sponsored comms saga, can be spotlighted but as marked as such, use tracking cookies, yadda, yadda. They don't seem to be very different from ( Read more... )

Plus, I'm lazy and it's pretty late here so I'm just gonna quote news, 'k?

"We've also added an opt-out setting for virtual gifts. Paid members can choose to disable receiving all virtual gifts, or just of sponsored v-gifts. That setting is also found on the Viewing Options page ( Read more... )

Home page being: http://www.livejournal.com

Sponsored communities are now better marked and delineated, a definite improvement. You can see here.

Sponsored communities are now in the main Spotlight box. They used to be in their own box, marked as sponsored. Now, only the userinfo icon serves to notify the viewer of the paid placement--a distinction that new LJ users won't pick up. This makes the Nixing Sponsored Communities script obsolete, but this Sponsored Spotlight Nix CSS can serve ( Read more... )

ampdmobile has begun to have posts and button ads promoting the sponsored community have begun to appear about LJ:


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kunzite1 asked me to post about: Branch R4 of the LJ code has added Support for overriding the profile and/or journal URLs when calling ljuser/ljuser_display.. This, in turn, leads to Support for overriding the profile and/or journal URLs for the spotlight/sponsored community ljuser tags. Also support for adding a small image next to the description.This ( Read more... )

New Sponsored Community: music_nation; looks like it will be running for 12 weeks. Unfortunately, the main site doesn't have OpenID for a login, so in order to really participate, I think LJers have to do a full blown registration. Pity--this would have been a great opportunity to use it. OpenID could allow LJers to participate in third party sites with a ( Read more... )

The previous one had been set by 7daysinasentra. (see this entry).

Now there's one set by mydarkestsecret. Here it is:


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solitudinarian points out the new post in lj_ads: A few ad updates.... Thanks!

Among the updates:

• New sponsored community mydarkestsecret. It's based on a movie, so like all previously Sponsored Communities, it has a very limited lifespan. (Note: even spreadshirt is already dead. After Sponsored Communities lapse, you can no longer even friend them.)
• Ads are on the homepage of LJ for ( Read more... )