Comments on: Zookoda Suspend all Broadcasts

By: Aaron Cook Dot Com™

Aaron Cook Dot Com™ — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:17:10 +0000

Honestly, I’m not surprised. As soon as PPP bought it I became vastly worried. And my worries have since been confirmed.

I’m moving to Aweber as well. I know I can count on them. Feedblitz is also a good choice. Never had any problems with them to date.

Shine on,
Aaron

PS: Hope you had a fantastic New Year’s Darren. Here’s to a great 2008! :)

By: Phil Hollows

Phil Hollows — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:45:26 +0000

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By: vhxn.com

vhxn.com — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:52:11 +0000

I hope zookoda bounce back & do some thing differnet – http://www.vhxn.com

By: Gab from SEO ROI

Gab from SEO ROI — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:01:47 +0000

Great timing 8-). If ever you want to kill a marketing company, tell your clients you won’t be there for them at crunch (read: Christmas) time. This ranks in my top 10 dumbest business decisions of all time.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:58:10 +0000

anna – I’m moving to Aweber

By: anna

anna — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:09:29 +0000

I already started making the move to go to feedblitz because Zoodoka bounce rate was getting absurd. They told me that I should urge all my yahoo subscribers to whitelist them.

You know its bad when you are personally emailing your newsletter with all the bounced people…It is too bad because I loved their concept and I would be surprised anyone stays with them. Happy Holidays, everyone.

Darren-where did you decide to switch to?

By: Donald

Donald — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:27:21 +0000

sounds like they are finished, better look for a different option

By: Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:28:23 +0000

I think they are working on it hard. But, it can be very late now. Let’s c, what it comes with ;

cheers,
-abs

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:09:54 +0000

I guess the end is near for Zookoda…

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:53:30 +0000

Here’s my take on the whole thing. I had been using them and they started to get really crappy, so I dumped them. The previous owners knew that their programs was getting bad and sold it to a bunch of suckers. The old owners got the cash, the new owners got stuck with an albatross that continues to drain down their money. Honestly, I don’t see Zookoda ever returning to the scene. Too bad, they had a good thing going there for awhile. Tip to PPP – Once you get the bugs worked out and if you plan on re-launching, better do it with a different name. Because, right now, Zookoda is equivalent to crap.

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:48:59 +0000

What a strange thing to do though, in my opinion.
It’s one thing to take the site down for a few hours to do system maintenance, and it’s another thing to suspend all broadcasts. They are basically turning all users away. By the time they got problems resolved, there will be not that many people left to benefit from it. That’s my prediction anyawy.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:49:31 +0000

Zookoda looked so good when it started but it’s really been a downhill slide since. Bounce backs have been increasing for many months.

And the tipping point was when PPP bought it. I jumped ship over to AWeber (a paid service).

Sometimes free is never free enough.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:42:27 +0000

Techcrunch predicts PPP is slated for the Deadpool. Good riddance.

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:23:00 +0000

This eventually had to happen. May be all because of the spam problem. Hope Zookoda comes up with some good plans in the future.

By: FD

FD — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:50:57 +0000

Not really surprising. It’s been nothing but problems since payperpost took it over. New name, same company.
Hope you have found a better email service by now.

By: Shaun Carter

Shaun Carter — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:42:09 +0000

It’s sad how many negative things spam causes. You could say spam is causing global warming because of the large number of Internet resources required to process all that crap running all over through websites, e-mail, etc.

Stop Spam, Save The Planet!

By: Dan Cole

Dan Cole — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:40:32 +0000

Well after they started check for spam manually it was only a matter of time before they had to shut down.

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:40:07 +0000

I knew Zookoda was having problems, but I had no idea they’d do something like this. I guess I’m kinda glad I jumped ship a few months ago and found a new home for my growing subscriber list.

By: Sara East

Sara East — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:55:17 +0000

Spam! You got to love it. I love spam with fried eggs and some salsa.

But serious. Spam is a major problem and it is getting worse. If you have been on the web any length of time you probably get some kind of spam already. Places like Zookoda gets loads like any place with a lot of traffic.

They will be better once they get better spam controls installed, but it is only putting a patch on the real problem.

By: Photography Dreamer

Photography Dreamer — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:41:07 +0000

What ?? Darshana no surprises for you maybe but I have a 500+ lists to serve :( and feedburner are still not allowing imports