affiliate marketing industry

Is Affiliate Marketing Undergoing a Kind of "Darwinism"?

Not too long ago an interesting piece appeared in MediaPost’s weekly Performance Insider. It was authored by Peter Klein and entitled Online Darwinism And The Evolution of Performance Marketing. Klein suggested that “as the performance marketing industry matures, and as brands seek more sophisticated and legitimate agencies and affiliates to […]

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Expanding Affiliate Program Internationally: 3 Markets to Consider

Continuing the series of my Google Affiliate Network Client Summit 2012 videos [video 1 in this post | video 2 here], today I’d like to bring you a video I shot in the heart of stunning St. Petersburg, Russia. Google asked me to express my thoughts on “affiliate marketing around

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Affiliate Marketing Opportunities in the Evolving Online Landscape

Last Friday I posted the first of my videos shot for Google Affiliate Network Client Summit 2012, preceding it with a comment that “I have shot four videos” total for Google, and that they were shot “in three different countries.” To remind you, each of the videos answers one specific

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Where is Affiliate Marketing Headed?

Today I’m missing an event that I’ve always wanted to go to — Google Affiliate Network Client Summit, an invitation-only event which traditionally takes place in Chicago every summer. This year, unlike before, I received an invitation to speak at the event. However, numerous circumstances made it impossible for me to

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Affiliate Marketing Spend to Reach 4.5B in 2016 and Other Findings by Forrester Consulting

A week ago at LinkShare Symposium New York 2012 the affiliate network announced that “Forrester Consulting recently conducted a study on behalf of Rakuten LinkShare” and it was at the conference that the study findings were unveiled. Here are just three interesting observations from it: 1. Forrester has scaled down

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