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One Million Croatian Surfers Used Xclaim.hr

Xclaim.hr, a contextual advertising network, recently served its millionth internet user in Croatia, in less than two months since the network became operational. Xclaim is one of only four such networks in the world, and it was entirely developed in Croatia.

Contextual advertising represents a bubble, similar to those for comic book character dialogues, which appears above certain words in the text on the web when you hover over them with the cursor. The system named Xclaim, fully developed in Croatia and recently covered by Lider, is more advanced than other existing foreign systems, allowing for animations in Flash to be displayed in the bubble, in addition to the classic link and the link with the advertiser’s logo.

The Xclaim system is a completely Croatian product. It offers advertisers the ability to connect selected words with their brand or product, thereby ensuring absolute control over the campaign’s success through monitoring statistics on the Xclaim.hr interfaces, as well as cost control through self-limiting daily campaign spending. Xclaim is therefore based on a system that scans pages looking for and visually highlighting certain words purchased from advertisers.

On the other hand, this innovation in the Croatian market has enabled additional revenue for the media, as the Xclaim system creates additional advertising space independent of the website’s structure. Such forms of advertising existed only in the USA until recently, and Xclaim.hr was the first in the region to start contextual advertising in content. This places it among the four companies in the world that offer this type of advertising, the most well-known of which is Vibrant Media. Xclaim was developed by the company X.P., founded on May 1, 2007. The company currently employs a team of five enthusiasts. Although young, they have already proven their expertise with successful projects such as the blog service MojBlog.hr and the Croatian internet search engine Pogodak.hr.