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Today we have launched Specle Studio, Regional ad delivery, new pricing plans, and much more. Please take a look around. More details to follow on Monday. Continue reading

A Specle upgrade is occurring today between 14:00 and 14:30 GMT. Please come back later to see the new site! Continue reading

At the end of this month, Specle will announce a new product called Specle Studio. Specle Studio is the product of the culmination of all our knowledge of pre-press and agency workflows. It seamlessly connects together production from media schedule through to delivery to publication in a way that has never been seen before. Specle has been working with closely VCCP to pilot the technology. VCCP is already using Specle Studio to produce and deliver all their work - including every ad for easyJet. You can read all about it today in PrintWeek. Please follow us on Twitter or Facebook... Continue reading

QA & Usability Engineer Specle is a fast paced, funded web startup working in the advertising & publishing space. Specle is aiming to change the world of print & online advertising production, and we are are looking for superstar people to help. The role we are looking to fill will be split between QA and Usability testing. This is a technical role and will require a hard working, technical minded person with excellent communication and documentation skills with a keen eye for detail. Specle prides itself on having the best products in the market. Specle is growing fast, and there... Continue reading

From today, Specle introduces support for EUR and USD. If an agency creates an account in the Eurozone, or in the United States, all pricing and transactions will now be in their local currency. As always, Specle does not have any registration fees or ongoing charges. It also remains free to search for ad specs and to publish information. Pricing is based on the country of registration of the sender (the person paying for ad delivery services). This means that a French agency will pay in EUR regardless of which country the publisher is they are sending to. A UK... Continue reading

Since the release of Specle Send, we've been working with customers to make Specle Send better and better and better. Usability, efficiency, and speed are core aims of the Specle team. We've introduced some new features over the weekend that we hope improve your Specle experience. New Send Ad Buttons Its now a lot easier to find where to click to access the Specle Send and Specle Pro services. Gone are the little blue links next to sizes. We now have big red buttons and you can now click anywhere in the row to send an ad. New Column Section... Continue reading

Specle Pro is Specle's new fully managed pre-press service. Specle Pro replaces Specle Full Repro and is available on all 1300+ titles on Specle. As of today, you can now use Specle Pro to deliver high quality colour ads anywhere in the UK for just £30 per ad. Specle Pro is a flat fee service and is available from 9:30am to 6:30pm Monday to Friday. There is no rush charge on Specle Pro. Get your ad to us, and we will check, report, and deliver your ad all within 2 hours. Check out the Specle Pro page on our web... Continue reading

Today Specle announces the availability of a new low-cost ad delivery service. Specle Send is a brand new fully web based ad delivery service - designed to be very easy to use, and ultra fast. Watch the video below to find out more. Specle Send now works on these titles If you have not got an account on Specle yet, you can sign up free below: Continue reading

We've completed a major upgrade of the Specle infrastructure over the weekend. Specle has now moved hosting providers, and is now spread across multiple redundant servers on Amazon EC2 through the Engine Yard hosting company. What this means for you is that Specle is now faster, and more reliable than ever before. At the same time we have also introduced a number of new features. These include: A much easier login process Multiple users for agencies - now invite and manage multiple people on the same account A brand new help site Improved transaction and delivery listing for Specle Full... Continue reading

Specle heads to "The Cloud" This Friday 15 April, 7pm, Specle will be shut down while we switch our servers over to a new hosting provider. Normal services will return by 6am on Monday 18 April. Specle will be upgrading to a brand new cloud based server array. When Specle was looking to upgrade its servers, we looked at what was going to allow us to scale our services to handle the levels of traffic we were starting to experience. What was going to handle the volume of data being transferred and what was going to be the fastest and... Continue reading

The much anticipated iPad app from Apple & News launches in the US today. This is the biggest investment made so far into creating a dedicated iPad news publication. Murdoch has spent US $30m on this app so far. Check it out online - http://www.thedaily.com/ If you are in the US, you can download the application on the AppStore Continue reading

Thanks to everyone for your support over 2010. Over the course of this year, Specle has built relationships with hundreds of publications and agencies. We now have over 850 titles online, including all UK national newspapers, 60% of top 100 UK consumer magazines, and 20% of the UKs regional newspapers - our fastest growing area. Yet this is just the beginning for us. As much as we're looking forward to the holidays, we can hardly wait to start 2011. We will be on call during the Christmas period. If you have any support enquiries, please contact us on support@specle.net, or... Continue reading

The Specle Full Repro Production department will be closed from 12pm on Friday 24th December, closed Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th December, re-opening for Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th Dec, then closed on Friday 31st December and Monday 3rd January 2011. Business as usual from Tuesday 4th January 2011. Wishing all our Clients and Suppliers all the very best for the Festive Season. Specle will be on call during the Christmas period. If you have any support enquiries, please contact us on support@specle.net, or contact Rob Brack on +44 (0)7525 096 601. Continue reading

We love our developers at Specle. In addition to all the work they do on Specle, Harmonypark also build iPhone apps. Their latest effort "Chatterbucks" got onto the Apple featured list on the App Store. Their story is a great insight into what it takes to make an app successful. Have a read via blog.harmonypark.net Continue reading

"i" from Independent Print Limited is the first new National Newspaper in the UK in nearly 25 years (since The Independent itself). You can now find ad specifications for "i" on Specle along with all newspapers from Independent Print Limited. Continue reading

Specle is in Printweek today! Read the article on printweek.com To upload a classified ad to Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday free, follow this steps: (Or if you want to send an ad to Mail on Sunday, search for "Mail on Sunday") If you have not got an account on Specle yet, you can sign up free below: to join the Specle Generation Continue reading

Specle has made its first big step into the digital world with the full inclusion of Guardian Commerical On-line specifications. Specle is now the leading ad spec site in the UK - hosting ad specifications for all UK National Newspapers, and a large part of the UK consumer & B2B magazine markets. Now with the ability to host online & iPad ad specifications, Specle has become the place to present the "how to send us ads" page across multiple media. Take a look at how Guardian has used Specle to put all their online ad specifications on Specle. Sign up... Continue reading

Specle Full Repro is now FREE for Classifieds in Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday Daily Mail provides assistance to all its classified clients by providing repro services on all incoming ads. This has been provided traditionally by several suppliers. Today, you can now also use Specle Full Repro. Clients now get all the benefits of high end pre-press and repro service, all through Specle's easy to use web interface. Yet its FREE to the sender. Its so simple to get started. Just follow the steps below You will of course need an account on Specle to upload material.... Continue reading

This week a number of new features went onto the site. Besides the new commercial pages which are designed to make it easier to get started with Specle and to find out how it works, we added a number of features for publishers. Specle Delivery Methods Publishers can now setup delivery methods to appear in the Send Ad Popup. A publisher can add either an external link to a third party delivery method (e.g. Adsend or Adstream), an email address to accept email, or a link to a Specle notes page where things link ftp delivery can be detailed. Publishers... Continue reading

Welcome to the new look Specle. Today you'll notice Specle just seems to work better, but maybe you can't quite tell why... That's because a lot of what we've added is subtle, but we think it makes a big difference to your experience. Here is a quick list of what's new: The firecracker is gone - new clean & simple front page and signup process You can now find out information about the Specle Full Repro Service. Sections are now either Classified or Display. "Main" has been renamed to Display Fixed Sizes Specle now has online ad specifications! Publishers can... Continue reading