Yesterday an important information has been posted by Kellie Stevens of Affiliate Fair Play in the 5StarAffiliatePrograms’ forum. Her alert is about a fairly newly created contextual adware that operates according to a model similar to Zango, Clicksor, or MediaTraffic. As an advertiser, you may buy traffic on DirectCPV.com which will be driven to you [...]
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In continuation of my last two posts, and pondering on some of the comments at Econsultancy.com, let’s see what parties can benefit from adware pop-ups, and if anyone really gets hurt.
To begin with, let’s list who is involved in the game: (a) adware affiliate, (b) merchant, (c) affiliate network, (d) sometimes an O(A)PM, and frequently [...]
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I have been thinking and discussing the issue of parasitic affiliates a lot over the past 40 hours (since the publication of this post, and the recording of this video), and there are 2 things that stand out to me as the main downsides of having a parasitic/adware adware affiliate aboard an affiliate program:
1. Channel [...]
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Earlier this morning I published an article on Econsultancy.com where I talked about the problem of parasitism in affiliate marketing, and channel cannibalization, and how it should not be viewed as a problem for affiliate marketers only, but be tackled on a much wider scale.
As I was adding more affected merchants to the comments under [...]
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Today is a U.S. national holiday – the day when America commemorates the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a passionate activist and proponent of the civil rights movement.
This morning I have spent a some time flipping through the writings of the Reverend, and two phrases especially spoke to me in light of the current [...]
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