Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that if you have an existing emailing list and would like to send out product updates and announcements to them via email, you are now able to import your user list to your AnnounceKit project 💌

To get started, simply head over to the People tab and select "Import". From there, you can upload your CSV file and select which columns correspond to user attributes.

For a successful user list importing experience, see the steps🚶and beware of the requirements❗️ given in our User List Import Guide.

Great news, fresh from the oven! 🧁 Your users are more likely to pay attention to the emails when they come from your email address. From now on, AnnounceKit will allow you to set up your company email to send product updates and announcements from your own domain address!

To start sending an email from your own domain, you can change your email provider to a custom provider like SMTP or Mailgun at Email Settings first and follow our instructions for setting up verification. 

Hey everyone! We love coming up with new designs for in-app notification widgets, so we've just released a new type of widget launcher called Drawer.

It might be a struggle to always get your users' attention to the product updates. In order to prevent this, we need some elements to boldly stand out 🧍 

Drawer is a button that sits to the side of your web page and opens up your in-app notifications upon click. It is a great way to ensure that users don't miss any important announcements while not interfering with their experience!

Wanna try? Go to Widgets now, select the relevant widget, and change the type of your launcher immediately. It is fully customizable to suit your style and branding!

Modal Booster, who dis? 🤙 We're excited to announce our new modal booster that allows you to highlight important announcements on your website in a modal window, ensuring that your users see them!

It is a great way to draw attention to your time-sensitive, significant announcements, such as new products, version updates, special offers, or upcoming events. You can also use it to promote content that you think will be of interest to your users.

We have great news for you to spend less time writing and more time making product updates. Behold our new AI Writing Assistant to help write release notes! 🤖

Now you can announce product updates in seconds without worrying about writing or formatting them yourself. Just give some keywords, and our AI-powered assistant will take care of the rest!

It is a great way to come up with a beautiful outline and save time writing product announcements. So, whether you're releasing a new feature or just updating an existing one, be sure to try out our new AI writing assistant! The best part is that it's available for everyone to use!

PS: this announcement is written by AI 🤫

We are happy to hit another great news this week! From now on, you can add custom CSS to your AnnounceKit widgets, which means that you can now customize the look, details, and feel of your widget as you wish to make it match your brand.

To add a custom CSS string to your widget, go to Edit Theme in Widgets and enter your CSS in the 'Custom CSS' field.

Good news! You can now add a custom privacy policy link to make your privacy policy visible, show your subscribers that you can be trusted, and have policies in place to protect their personal data.

If you'd like to have your own privacy policy linked in the widgets and feeds, please provide your policy URL in Project Settings and save your changes.

When announcing product updates, it is important to grab your users' attention with eye-catching visual elements and images, as much as anything. Then, let me uncover our new feature, post cover image 🖼

Now, you can add an image to display as a cover on your feed and widget. This way, you can showcase the scope of your updates in a more visually appealing way 😎 All in all, the aim is to help your users quickly notice and understand your awesome new update.

You only need to upload a cover image to your post in your content editor 🙆‍♀️ Once you've uploaded your image, it will automatically be added as the cover image and displayed on your standalone feed and widget! Happy cover imaging 😛

You might sometimes find yourself making the same announcement over and over, lose a lot of time writing release notes or sometimes inspiration just strikes... Good news! We are happy to announce that now you can create your own post templates to make your next announcement even faster ⚡

With this feature, you can save any of your announcements as a template and easily create ready-to-use, canned posts. You can also edit your templates at any time, so they're always ready to go when you need them. 

All you need to do is go to your post editor and save the template you want. Happy announcing!

Hey everyone 👋

We've got a new feature for all who've been asking for a long time– the Post Summary! This will allow you to override a post summary for your long product updates to display a short overview on your widget concerning SEO and aesthetic purposes.

To use this feature, choose Post Summary view mode on your widget, go to the post editor, and enable the Override Post Summary field. Enter your desired text, and you're all set 💁‍♀️