Having surveyed more than 5,000 affiliates and merchants, and having conducted “dozens of discussions with industry experts and insiders”, Revenue Performance has announced the top ranked affiliate networks in the performance marketing industry. Some of the results may look surprising, others logical, but overall, it’s an interesting ranking, and I am pleased to see that [...]

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Geno on November 2nd, 2010

An affiliate has emailed me the following question: Do you know any affiliate networks that operate in the Latin America region, and especially in Brazil and Argentina? Good one. I haven’t worked with any of them, but I know they do exist (focusing either on both US Hispanic audiences, and Latin American ones, or just [...]

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Geno on October 7th, 2010

Having covered North American Affiliate Networks and European Affiliate Networks in earlier posts, today I’d like to turn to yet another part of the world, and bring you two more lists: one for India-focused affiliate networks, and another one for Asian affiliate networks. As always, if I have missed any that should be added to [...]

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Geno on October 6th, 2010

I have a list of the North American affiliate (and CPA) networks here, and by popular demand, today I’d like to bring you my lists of European affiliate networks divided by countries, or major European regions. If I have missed any, please do let me know, and I will get them added to this list. [...]

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Geno on October 3rd, 2010

Todd Farmer had just relaunched his AffPlan with a new Affiliate Strategies session: Good to see the good project being reborn. I still remember greeting their very first podcast a year and 29 days ago. I’ve just noticed that the AffPlan.com website profiles the top 4 US affiliate networks, listing some interesting information about each: [...]

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Geno on September 20th, 2010

A question came in from a person who is contemplating starting his own affiliate network: I am interested in starting my own Affiliate Network…  Having said this I do have a question for you.  On your page “Affiliate Program Software – Options to Consider” you list many platforms and recommend none. Traditionally, are the more [...]

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I manage an affiliate program for a merchant who is simultaneously utilizing two affiliate networks: Commission Junction and ShareASale. I’ve just had to upload 6 new banners to each network, and in one case it took me 8+ times longer than in the other. Here are the details: Commission Junction – 6 minutes 8 seconds [...]

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Back in March I wrote my Run Affiliate Program In-House or on Affiliate Network? post where I answered the “network vs in-house software” question from the merchant perspective. Yesterday (May 11) I’ve had a pleasure of interviewing one of the original developers of a famous affiliate program software, which led me to think of affiliate [...]

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A merchant who is planning on starting an affiliate program, has studied my Online Guide to Affiliate Marketing and emailed me this question: Can you please give me a quick overview of the pros and cons of running our program in-house or going with a network like Google’s Affiliate network? Good question. There are indeed [...]

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Five days ago Nielsen reported a 10.5% year-over-year growth in the number of online video viewers — “from 127.6 million unique viewers in February 2009 to 141 million in February 2010.” Two days ago I’ve found out about the birth of a new affiliate network — a video-centered network, founded by John Ferber,  the co-founder [...]

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