Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, an affiliate marketer since 1997, co-founder of Affiliate Summit and author of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

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Sam Harrelson is the ace reporter of the affiliate Internets. Last week, he got the big get in his interview with Kris Jones, CEO of Pepperjam, about the recent dustup between [...]

I just saw on Sam Harrelson’s Cost Per News blog that Steve Denton, President of LinkShare, has resigned.
The announcement came in the form of a press release from LinkShare.
The release also mentions two promotions in the LinkShare executive management team.
Kelli Beougher, Vice President of Lead Generation Services, was promoted to Senior Vice President and will [...]

The monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics report has been released with data from February 2008.
A couple observations from the February data:

iPhone traffic was flat in February. This may be due to the ‘novelty’ factor of people getting iPhones as holiday gifts around December/January, the spirit apparently didn’t grow in February.
Blackberry and Nokia have been fighting [...]

Just a couple weeks ago, I was chatting with Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral, and Lisa Picarille on the GeekCast about how many of the affiliate networks don’t have blogs.
This morning I came across an announcement that zanox has launched a blog.
In addition to the main blog, zanox has also set up blogs for vertical markets, [...]

Mark Wielgus, who blogs and video blogs at 45n5.com, has created a genius of a music video in tribute to affiliate video bloggers.
I’ve got to agree with Mark - I love watching the affiliate videos, too. Keep them coming everybody!
Check out the 45n5 magic at http://www.45n5.com/permalink/i-love-affiliate-video-bloggers.html.
Maybe we can persuade Mark to bring his guitar to [...]

I just got back the professional photos from Affiliate Summit 2008 West (630 of them!) and they are now up on Flickr.
Here is a shot of the Affiliate Meet Market on Sunday, February 24, 2008:

Book your table now at the Early Bird price for Affiliate Summit 2008 East, taking place August 10-12 in Boston.
Check out [...]

eBay Leaving Commission Junction
Make Suggestions to Affiliate Summit
GeekCast 9 - The Last Affiliate Virgin
Affiliate Program News
Sam Harrelson Steps Down from ReveNews
Affiliate Marketing Is Dead

eBay has announced that they will be closing their affiliate program on CJ and launching the eBay Partner Network, an in-house eBay affiliate program.
Back in September 2006, eBay announced the launch of their own affiliate linking infrastructure called Project Rover.
At the time, I speculated on my blog whether “a full secession from CJ (was) [...]

Last week, I shared some affiliate manager salary data from my recently published 2008 edition of the AffStat report, which details the latest statistics in affiliate marketing.
I broke out the affiliate manager interview to capture compensation details from in-house affiliate managers and OPMs (outsourced program managers).
Below is a breakdown of the total monthly compensation per [...]

Q: In terms of revenue and profit generated, what sort of affiliate site is ideal to set up for a first venture?
A: It depends on your capabilities and whether or not you have any capital. I’d say the quickest and easiest way to enter the market is to go with a blog.
I would recommend going [...]