An affiliate network that’s currently negotiating with investors has approached me asking if there’s a place where they can review mergers and especially acquisitions that have happened in the affiliate marketing world over the past few years. Having found no such compilation anywhere, I have decided to put one together […]
10 Notable Affiliate Marketing Acquisitions of Last 5 Years Read More »
It’s great to see affiliate networks developing. Last week ShareASale launched their new merchant interface. A couple days after that Google Affiliate Network announced product APIs for affiliates. Yesterday Shawn Collins wrote about buy.at‘s new product search feature for affiliates. Today I’d like to bring to you another network-related news
LinkShare Mobile Publisher Dashboard: Announcement & How-To Read More »
Coincidentally or not, but 3 of the 6 major US affiliate networks — and here I imply Commission Junction, LinkShare, buy.at, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and AvantLink — announced holiday deals and offers of their merchants on November 17, 2010. These are: LinkShare affiliate network (in a blog post): ShareASale
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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
Top 20 Affiliate Networks Chosen by 5000 Affiliate Marketers Read More »
Between March and June of 2010 we’ve read the news of AOL getting rid of an affiliate network, a popular instant messaging computer program, and just the day before yesterday they also sold a social network. None of these were AOL’s own developments, but were acquired by the company at
Has AOL Already Lost $1.2 Billion in 2010? Read More »
Yesterday Econsultancy released its Innovation Report (focused on the UK digital marketing space, one that is always fun to follow). These reports are always great to read, as in them Econsultancy focuses on “innovative digital tactics” but does it not for the sake of merely listing the new developments, but
Top 8 Innovative Affiliate Marketing Ideas (per Econsultancy) Read More »
Earlier this morning at buy.at’s 7th annual Speakeasy event in Central London, UK, it was announced that buy.at has partnered with Coull to bring the world “the first fully-integrated video technology for the affiliate marketing industry” which allows affiliates to convert any video into an interactive ad with affiliates links
buy.at and Coull Transform Any Video into Affiliate Ad Read More »
One of my favorite affiliate networks in the world has changed hands again. Two years ago AOL acquired Buy.at for some £75 million ($150 million), making it into a separate unit within Advertising.com [source]. See also AOL’s official press release here. Today, it has been reported that “Digital Window, the
AOL Sells Buy.at Affiliate Network to Digital Window Read More »
A few days ago Russia celebrated Christmas, and while choosing a movie to watch yesterday night my attention was naturally drawn to a new film by Pavel Lungin — “Tsar” [more here and here | it’s also available in the U.S. with English subtitles]. It is not an easy movie
Tsar by Pavel Lungin and Ethics in Affiliate Marketing Read More »
…at least within one particular affiliate network, within one particular country. Stolen coupons have been a long-standing problem for affiliates that are receiving exclusive deals from merchants. The essence of the problem is as simple as this: You run an XYZ affiliate website A merchant gives you an exclusive coupon
Stolen Coupons May No Longer Be a Problem Read More »